So I keep hearing about all these complainers who don’t like the ‘new’ Facebook.  Well, for the record, I don’t see much difference. The web interface still pretty much sucks big time.

I follow an RSS feed from my Facebook account as an alert mechanism.  Usually I will pick up goings on via my iPhone’s Facebook application which, although still buggy, is a lot simpler than the web interface.

Today, I had quite a lot of ’stuff’ to wade through because I’ve been a bit more active on there myself.  Well, not really.  I’ve been posting a lot to Twitter while I was on holiday in Auckland, and that automatically updates my Facebook status.

So I chose to attempt to deal with it on my Mac.  Bad, bad, choice!  First of all, I had an RSS item that one of my friends wanted to add my birthday to their calendar.  Fair enough, I thought.  So I clicked “here” as directed and it took me to a page of “Notifications” (whatever that means).  From there I clicked through on the birthday request, but also noted another item of interest on the way through.

Now, do you think I could easily find how to get back to the Notifications screen again?  Hell, no!  I ended up using the browser’s back button to get there.  That’s bad!  I should be able to find such a screen easily, but I can’t.  It’s not intuitive.

Anyway, I eventually get back to the Notifications screen to find another friend has “answered a question about me” and offers me a link to see what they said.  Of course my interest was piqued.

So I clicked the link and am confronted with:

Allowing Friend FAQ access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work.

WTF??? Why do I have to allow an application access to all my info just to see what my friend said?  That’s insane in this day of malware and identity theft.

I shall be asking my friend what they said in person.  Well, through a direct communications channel such as email or IM anyway.

What on earth do people see in this system?