Changes in social media that made us go whyyyyy

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Change is inevitable, but I think social media makers take this saying too seriously. Whatsapp’s blue ticks for when a message is ‘seen‘  has been widely criticized and meme'd, except by Lumia users because apparently they don’t have the feature if they don’t update. This is not the first time social media has decided to change things . For better or for worse, here are 7 times the social media cartel has decided to ruin lives:

1. Facebook Messenger for Mobile

Yeah, okay I live in India yeah? My 3G pack gets over in half a day, and in 2G I can barely view the Google homepage. In such a plight, when you keep pestering me to download messenger for my phone, it annoys the crap out of me! (especially when you toy with my curiosity by showing that I have one message notification- but when i press it--oops, you can’t view this cos you don’t have messenger.) -_-


2. YouTube pre-roll ads:

There were the good old days when Youtube didn’t have any ads. After that came the good old days when it had ‘skip ad’. Though it still has that button, now it has decided to give ads without the button too. Not cool, bro. The funny thing is, the makers actually didn't want to include pre-roll ad's, because they knew it annoyed viewers. Here is a screen-shot from an article in Wall Street Journal (2007) to prove it.


3. Google plus

Need I say more? I do?







4. ANOTHER like button

We asked Facebook for a dislike button, so they decided to give us another like button. This annoyed  FB’ers for a while, but now we got used to it, so it’s all cool.

5. Hashtag on Facebook


Hashtag or the Octothorpe (Thanks, Hank Green) was Twitter property till FB decided it wants a piece of that action. The annoying thing wasn’t it’s introduction to FB, it was the fact that people weren’t using it in the right way!

6. Facebook Timeline

It seems like such a long time ago when I got those nudging (ahem) pop up’s from FB asking politely if I would like to use the Facebook timeline. Then it just decided to go gunda  style on us and say ‘look, you take it or leave,’ and thus, everyone switched to Timeline.

7. Twitter background header:

Is it the same as FB cover picture? Is fried rice the same as pulao? Some questions are better left unanswered.
So why do these guys play God? Is it because if they don't keep making silly changes, they'll get Orkut'd? I don't know. For now all I can say is: et tu, Whatsapp?





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