It’s all too easy to point out the problems with Facebook because, let’s face it, it’s an easy target. On several occasions I’ve blasted Facebook for the dumb stuff they do, but I also do recognize the good that it brings to us.
Here are 5 things that are good about using Facebook.
1. No need to remember anyone’s email address
For as long as the internet has existed, people have had a really difficult time remembering email addresses of their friends, relatives and co-workers. Why? I have absolutely no idea. God forbid if you have an email address than ends in .net instead of .com.
Anyway, for whatever reason, people get all stupid when it comes to remembering an email address but at the same time can remember full physical addresses easily including the ZIP code. Go figure.
What people can remember is a partial name. In Facebook, when you want to message someone in your contact list, you just start typing the name of the person in the search box and they will show up before you can finish typing it out. Then you click, send a message and go about your business.
2. Easiest way to share photos to the people in your life that matter
People love their photos. Facebook’s system isn’t necessarily any better than other like services, however the people you actually want to see your photos are there, and that’s the whole point of posting them on Facebook in the first place.
3. A forced-environment way of messaging
This sounds like a bad thing but it’s actually not. In Facebook messaging you cannot specify font faces, colors, bold/italic/underline or a signature. You are forced to use their fonts, and that’s good because it prevents people from mucking it up with useless formatted crap that everyone hates.
4. No app required
What you need to access Facebook is a browser. On mobile, you can optionally use an app but you can still use the browser there as well.
The point is that at no time has Facebook ever required a proprietary app just to use it, and that’s good.
5. It’s very easy to "soft block" people in your contact list that annoy you
People get really ticked off if you "unfriend" them, so what Facebook did is offer a filtering mechanism where you can choose what you want to see on your "wall". If there’s someone who posts nothing but garbage that ticks you off, no problem, simply choose to not have anything they write ever appear there. They’ll stay on your contact list but will be completely unaware you soft-blocked them.
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