Two Reasons I Find Facebook Annoying

I nearly called this post "Two Reasons I Hate Faebook," but as a point of fact, I don't hate the site. I think it's clever enough for social networking, but past social networking, its usefulness stops. There are some things you can't do on facebook, and the fact that you can't just annoys the crap out of me. The main one that I want to do and can't involves music.

Now, I understand why they would not have this functionality. People would abuse it by uploading their favorite song, Facebook would get into copyright litigations, record companies would complain that their schtuff is being spread all over the internet even worse than before, yadda yadda yadda. Well, that places us poor schlubs who actually write music and legitimately own the rights to it in the hamper of paying the price for everyone else's irresponsibility. Strangely, Facebook allows videos, which means I just copy the song I want to post into the soundtrack of a series of titles, and boom, postable.

The second thing that bugs me only came up this morning. I don't know if this blog allows this, but I'm going to try. I wanted to post this graphic in honor of Friday:

When I uploaded the little gif to Facebook, I got me one static graphic. No movement at all. You can see here that it's an amusing little loading screen. The fun is lost if it doesn't move.

No no loading graphic on Facebook. Apparently, photos means static photos only and no animated gifs. Again, I suspect this has to do with rights and the fact that most social networkers aren't programming graphics. Facebook probably also didn't want a slew of animated gifs mucking up their walls and such.

Oh well, there's the rant. I have one workaround and I just posted the graphic here. For fun, here's a second, similar graphic I found. That's all for now, though.