I has a theory!

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1459156]

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Answers slighly skewed because "from work" and "from home" are often synonymous.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

[x] I have a facebook account, I just don't ever look at it.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and when I *did* read it, I read it through an rss reader.

[andrewducker]

I used to do that - but I actually find the new lite.facebook.com interface nice to use - because it only has the status updates on ti.

[cdave]

It seems to still have lashings of javascript or something, as the word logon is not a button on my phone.

[andrewducker]

For phones the mobile interface is better - http//m.facebook.com

[cdave]

I was trying to download a copy of my profile pick, and was having difficulties on m.facebook.com.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Also, though I have not updated, I have commented.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I counted school as "work" for the purposes of this poll.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Alas, FB and LJ are blocked at my workplace. Fortunately, Dreamwidth isn't (and my last LJ update was actually a DW post, automatically cross-posted).

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I have a facebook account because I need one to be able to see photos posted by family overseas. I make a *point* of not reading it, ever, apart from that, because the interface is offensively terrible and the main functionality seems entirely based around people spamming me with ads for games and events I don't want to go to.

So I kind of break the assumptions in the middle two questions.

[andrewducker]

I recommend http://lite.facebook.com - which doesn't include any other applications other than status updates, photos and events, and is much cleaner than the main site.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

Lite is not yet available in Canada.

I find the usual Facebook very useful. It's basically an equivalent of Outlook or Notes but for personal life, plus the photo tagging and sharing is madly useful. Blocking works well to make game invites go away.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I don't trust myself to actually get the work done I need to if I look at either facebook or lj at work - so I treat them a strictly leisure activities.

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

work being The Forest

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

So what was the theory? And did the data support it?

[andrewducker]

I thought the move from LJ to Facebook might have been partially because FB is easier to update from a phone interface than LJ is. This turned out to be untrue.