09/04/2017
Facebook is getting tedious.
We have noticed that facebook goes slow.
Sometimes we have to reload pages, just to kick them back in to action.
But here is a thought;
Say facebook holds every person up by just 1 second, and as at end of 2016 there are 1.8 Billion users. So that is 1.8 billion seconds. So that's 1,800,000,000 divided by 60 seconds, divided by 60 minutes, divided by 24 hours, divided 365 days = 57 years of wasted time. That means that a 2 second waste of time equates to more than one lifetime.
So if you count up how much time you spend waiting for a page to load, or the number of times you need to reload a page, and assume that others are only wasting half as much time as you, then you can estimate how many lifetimes are going to be wasted on facebook.
Do you remember the Yellow Pages phone books. They are now so thin. They used to be a separate book to the White Pages, but now the two combined are thinner than either of the separate books. And this year's book is thinner than last year's book.
The internet was supposed to speed things up. The Yellow Pages prompting phrase was "let the fingers do the walking". Then when the internet arrived, people found their fingers could walk faster on the internet.
But there's a very important thing we should thank the Yellow pages for; the Yellow pages never says "Wait! Slowww down. No!. Wait longerrrr!",
or worse
"Nope. Today those pages aren't available". More ridiculously, the Yellow Pages are yours, they never say "Hey. Wait in line, there's too many people wanting to use your phone book".
Maybe it's just us, but the blog style of the page looks messy. Every time we click on another menu item, it seems to want to load the whole lot again.
This chews through the bandwidth, and takes time.
The more we have, the longer it takes. There's a diminishing return on benefit due to increased wasted effort.
In trying to run a shop with real customers coming in, this is a distraction that needs to prove itself more effective than it currently is.
We are not giving up on facebook yet. But for digital communication, we'd much prefer email; at least the email system doesn't force you to display all the contents of all the email messages you've ever received, just so you can read the one you want, or write one.
So please feel very very welcome to contact us by email from our website, and thank you for doing so.
Nor will we be too quick to stop advertising in the Yellow Pages.
Oh, and the Yellow Pages work even when the power is off. And even if the phone or internet is not working, you can find our address in the Yellow Pages and pop along to the shop anyway.
Let us know what you think, or if you have similar experiences in your line of business or work. But again, an email might be a better way.
