What all is wrong with the new facebook

Michael Arrington's post got me all fired up to write this.
Sure change is good. I welcome it, but ONLY if it makes my life easier, and in this case specifically, if it makes for easier networking/connecting with my friends.

So here are some things that I've been trying to figure out about the new facebook and jeez, are they annoying.

Sample 1
Lets say I want to use one of the application (Give Gift) to use on one of my friends.
Oh guess what? I can't cancel it!!???! Where is the goddamn cancel button? sure I found a workaround. You click on the 'write post' and the box disappears, but is that how Facebook had intended it?



Sample 2
So I played around some more and found out that some apps .. ahem.. DID have a 'x' on the top right. I was delighted! Ahh, an option to cancel right?
Wrong. What that 'x' does is prompts you to remove the application! Sweet stuff! I bet the developers are delighted!


This is enough for me to get the old facebook back. Sure bring on the new stuff, but at least test for basic functionality before you make it mandatory.

Puja Madan : most likely to stick to the old facebook till its around

Inspiration

Can FaceBook be my one-stop for .... everything online?

Mike Arrington's post on FB's inefficient messaging got me thinking a tad:

Personal communication and collaboration is becoming increasingly time-consuming. When I say this, I don't mean historically. From the past, we're definitely saving time by leaps and bounds. I mean this, in terms of our patience-levels online. Logging onto email, chat (Maybe not if you have gmail), one (or many) social networking site(s), a photo-sharing site, a blog (or many!) another semi-social site that lets me display my status (twitter, linkedin, spock) is just TOO much work.

I'd like it all put together. Facebook does a mighty good job of engaging its members on the social networking, photo-sharing, status-displaying front. It does not delight me with it's email service and does not let me blog.

Now, if only it would build on those (am I missing anything?) I'm guessing I wouldn't need to login to a gazillion services. I wouldn't need to change tabs.

Hmm, that would make me very happy.