The backlash against the new Facebook format (on which I am quite neutral) has been intense, especially with the unfettered publication of quiz results of your friends. Many a status update has professed irritation over these quizzes, or crowed about learning how to hide these results.
Some may very well be driven by annoyance over the aesthetic clutter, though the old Facebook design was hardly a triumph of minimalism. But I fear that much of the resentment really delves into an unrealized disagreement with the essence of Facebook over the essence of friendship. Facebook casually labels someone whom you shared a class with in Grade 5 as a "friend", then operates from the premise that you genuinely enjoy interacting or learning more about your friends. Most of the quizzes that populate Facebook are poorly thought out and plagued with bad grammar, but a few of them do offer genuine insights on the people whom you acceded Facebook to identify as your friend. For the most part, I don't mind reading the quiz results of people whom I consider friends, though this may also be in part because I thrive best when surrounded by an overflow of information. But the times when I get annoyed by a quiz result that pops up, it usually derives from someone I marginally know, or do not know at all (I do have a few of those in my "friend" list).
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