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Undersound feat. Jane Thomas - Soul testify

Check out the overview of embassies in current "architecture capital" of Europe - in Berlin. I did not view everything just about seven or eigth and my surprising favourite so far: Oman.

I have just read an interesting article Top 10 reasons why you should quit Facebook. There are a lot of complatins about privacy, unethical behavior, technical incompetence etc. which are definitely relevant and significant, but the truly gem there is located at the end of the text as the no. 1 reason: "the application itself sucks". I would sign that!

I created my Facebook profile because of an online marketing campaign in my work and since the firt moment I wondered why so many people use a love such a terrible web application as Facebook?

It has really horrible user interface (UI), for instance:

• Non-intuitive navigation - the most items are somewhere else than you would expect and it takes time to locate anything
• More ways of reaching the functionality - You can choose more ways of accessing certain functionality, which is not good itself. The worse is there are different options depending on the way you navigated (for example reding external RSS feed into Notes).
• Important features missing - Why we can not edit the post in we make a typo? No editing, just delete and repaste once more ... with another typo maybe? :)
• Bugs - Even the core features have bugs. If you use cut&paste to fill the wall post and have longer text, you get wrong alignment. The only way to keep it correct? Retype!
• Options hell - The ton of different settings seems to be designed only to annoy the user to be kept at the default.
• Low availability - I wouldn't declare myself as a heavy Facebook user, but even though I regularly get "Page is currently not available, try later" message or load of the page just dies and the content remains disabled in grey and the only way is to reload the page - even the links on the page do not work anymore?!

That reminds me of another "UI comparison" that hits the nail - Regular TV remote vs. Apple remote.