Hard time

I always get a hard time loading photos and links here. It takes me ten times, minimum, reloading my posts and still could not get the desired views.

Most of the time, I encounter that UNABLE TO SWITCH TO RICH TEXT MODE. THIS MAY BE CAUSED BY OVERLY COMPLEX or MALFORMED HTML, when it is mainly FRIENDSTER doing all that. So even if it’s not OK, the only option is to click OK; ain’t that a weird thing! And most of the time, I end up editing my posts in HTML because that is the only available option to edit, and just to make sure the page looks good enough as others would see it. But I should not be editing the entire article in HTML, only some specific items I would like to change.

It’s good I have enough background on the HTM language; but what about those who do not? They’d just be satisfied with however their pages appear even if they don’t like it?

The guys behind FRIENDSTER must look into this area because it’s really a freak-out thing when the behaviour of texts, links and photo uploads go haywire, even in the editing phase.

And I’m not finished yet. POINT ONE: there is no option for video or audio uploads in the blog page when it is in this site where people stay longer and interact. Could it be the guys from FRIENDSTER don’t know or they just don’t care?

POINT TWO: As I made a promise to myself to update and manage all my blog sites here and elsewhere this year, I expect that it will be easier to syndicate my pages around all of them. Was I so disappointed when I tried doing that from this side to another blog site; the XML would not load! Does FRIENDSTER know about this?

What is the use of placing that item on the blog page if it won’t work?

POINT THREE: The editing options / choices are so limited. In the other blog sites, there is much, much more freedom to make the page speak and look more like YOU. That slack alone is already a really great DRAB. There must also be an option for editing the HTML when you want to add another paragraph carriage to separate the subtopics because this issue cannot be achieved in the RICH TEXT FORMAT, guys.

But that is not to say that I will leave FRIENDSTER now. Not yet. I will try to go around this problem even if the guys behind FRIENDSTER don’t care at all. Think about competitiveness, guys, even for once. FRIENDSTER badly needs it.

POINT FOUR: The PREVIEW button in the POST area should send you to a page where you can exactly see how your actual article looks in the actual page, or else, what are you previewing?

POINT FIVE: I’m not really sure about this, but I believe every time I edit my post and save it, it sends a message to some email inbox of friends linked to me. So if I make ten edits, they’d receive exactly ten messages saying, TILDE HAS JUST UPDATED HER FRIENDSTER BLOG. I do receive messages like that in my email from friends linked to me here when they update anything in FRIENDSTER. It is an automatic mechanism embedded in the process when you save your post but it’s something else when you receive it ten times in your inbox saying the same message over and over.

POINT SIX: After making a lot of edits or corrections, some fonts don’t appear as they should. Sometimes they are smaller, sometimes, bigger than the regular font size I use. Now. why is that? Artifact issues in CSS?

What I’m really saying is, I’ve tried to look into the limitations of FRIENDSTER and what I have found, at the beginning phases, are some serious problem areas that FRIENDSTER should really look into.

Yeah, yeah, FRIENDSTER links people together but if the site is not that capable in presenting your message beyond MALFORMED HTML, what would the link benefit from? Much more the persons using it?

There is a great need for people to understand image communication, even from the point-of-view of the medium, which, in this case, is FRIENDSTER. I’m doing this to make you see the point. Did it link you exactly to that item when you clicked it?

It must. But I have to SAVE this article (meaning, POST it) first to get the exact url (uniform resource locator) of that article when it should be available already on the POSTs tab so you can link to your previous articles with ease. Exactly my point.

There, I’m finished now.