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i've not been on facebook for quite some time. i created a new account last week and began having posterous "broadcast" to it - for the background/wallpaper series. surprising, or not - depending upon your perspective, my posterous posts into facebook worked fine...initially. then, late last week, i began to have issues and failures with posting to facebook as a conduit in posterous.

i made an arbitrary note (on fb) about it last night when i realized that everything I'd posted for the last several days hadn't made it to facebook. and, to further confuse the issue, i directly "published"  (post to elsewhere) some of the items from imageme.maierphoto.com to facebook. again, while initially the posts worked fine - eventually, they began to fail. WTF?

i tweet'd it last night and luckily, the posterous gang - on top of things as usual - hopped on it and this morning i had a great email from vince explaining the real issue...facebook. applying arbitrary limits, undisclosed, coupled with little to no information when the actual "failure" occurs.

i call bobo...get your shit together facebook! *what* could possibly be considered against AUP with posting to your service. the posts were not ads, frought with links to various urls. the posts were not of pictures of *dubious* content. get real...what it makes me want to do is just shut down my facebook accounts and, frankly, use posterous ONLY!

uhm, thanks for listening ;)

-matt

I really like it...I have been using it for a bit now and must say that I really appreciate the simplicity of the interface. Very clean and well organized. Just the right amount of data is provided in a very uncluttered and intuitive manner. Being able to post to multiple services concurrently is without a doubt hugely valuable. Personally, I'm rather lazy, so I would just opt to not post on other services at all were it not for a service such as posterous.

I like to poke around in my surroundings and see what other people are up to but, it is really not fun with so much repetition. My only real gripe thus far, really not even a gripe, is that I've had a less than satisfactory experience using Explore. The tagline of Explore thousands more... doesn't really apply in my experience. More aptly, explore a few things, thousands of times. "A random selection..." is less random than I would have expected. I, personally, see the same posts repeated over and over upon reloading the page.

Taking into consideration that explore is not even really a feature of what posterous does, I really have to say that it is a winner and an excellent tool. A hearty thank you and well done  to the posterous crew!

I haven't written anything in a long time. I took down my previous blog last year and decided I wouldn't write any longer. I've had a change of heart and miss writing; I find it very cathartic. To this end, I've decided to start up again as a form of self-therapy. So, for those of you who happen to stumble upon this and enjoyed my diatribes - welcome back...to those of you which did not have the pleasure of reading my previous blog - stick around and let me know what you think.
 
-matt