Comment by ashark

Not knowing how/where/to-whom my posts would show up (and how/where others' posts or status updates or whatever could be seen) was my biggest (non-privacy-related) problem with Facebook when I briefly tried it back in '09 or so. Their UI was so damn confusing that I quickly gave up on it. Seems like it's only gotten worse, but I guess most people don't mind not knowing what a given action will actually do. It felt to me like a giant step back as a communication tool, adding levels of uncertainty and chance for no good reason.

Add the fact that their weighting of posts also shapes conversations in possibly-unpredictable (or predictable, deliberately-manipulative) ways and yeah, I object to it.

Then again I also find Twitter's UI to be fairly confusing (and really stressful, god it's messy). Less so, but still. So maybe I'm just bad at understanding GUIs. Back to SMS, IRC, and Basic HTML GMail for me.