Tesla Coil Party & Facebook Needs UI Classes
This is not the first time I feel completely lost in Facebook’s UI. Today I was trying to quickly make an event for a party I was going to have (fictional or not isn’t the point), and I spent at least 4 freakin’ minutes trying to find out where the hell you click to make an Event in facebook. That shouldn’t happen. It turns out, I removed the application from my applications list a long time ago because it completely clutters my list (how many times do people people like me make events anyway?).
But wait a minute, "Events" isn’t your every day application. In fact, it’s not an "application" at all. It’s an inherent feature in Facebook as proven by the fact that I can still do this:
Should I really be able to "delete" an "application" and still be able to use it? The only thing it deletes is my ability to navigate to it, and it doesn’t help that the only way to add it back is hidden within their application search page.
If you give the ability to remove links to basic functionality of a website, it should be assumed that there are other ways to access it. Otherwise it would be like removing the "Recycling Bin" (under Windows) from your desktop and no longer being able to ever see what you deleted ever again. Obviously there are secondary navigation paths in your Operating System’s UI– why is this not true for Facebook? This wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t always run into these problems while attempting to navigate Facebook’s.. questionable.. UI.
Rant aside, I figured out how to create the event, so you’re all invited to my imaginary Tesla Coil party, which starts in 2 hours. BYOTC.
