As with anything popular it is also popular to complain about Facebook.  Now I feel like I get a free pass since my complaints are not of the class “Why did you move my cheese?” but rather “Why doesn’t your shit work as advertised?”.

Call me a hypocrite if you’d like.  I’ll wait.

Ok.  I’m glad you got that off your chest.

Today Facebook made an announcement:

Changes to How You Share Content in Notes

You currently automatically import content from your website or blog into your Facebook notes. Starting November 22nd, this feature will no longer be available, although you’ll still be able to write individual notes. The best way to share content from your website is to post links on your Wall. Learn more about notes.

I’ve been using this buggy feature since I learned I could do it.  It never really worked very well.  The reality is that I post the links myself anyway because their feed importer rarely does its job.  When it does work it takes hours or days to import rather than the minutes they claim.

The links Facebook provides back to my blog are confusing for users (presumably because Facebook wants to keep visitors on their site and not assist me in getting them to mine—which seems utterly antithetical to the spirit of the hyperlink).

In a way it’s not all that surprising they would make this maneuver.  Nonetheless, they chose to bag this feature after spending nearly zero effort in fixing it.  I mean if they can dump hundreds of hours of coding time to make the chat list appear on the right hand side of every page, surely they could fix an RSS feed importer.

As such I expressed myself:

As you can see, there is much they should be spending their coding hours fixing.

Facebook, we love you but seriously: fuck off.