Dear Mark Zuckerberg,
I was introduced to 'Facebook' in October 2006, reluctantly, as I was already on Myspace, which could play music. However some of my friends refused to join Myspace, and as I was away travelling, I signed up to stay in touch. It turns out many people had this same experience, and by 2008, myspace was dead, its users all went to your site.Mr Zuckerberg I am writing in Congratuulations for your tireless improvements to Facebook's user-friendlinesss.
By autumn 2008 Facebook had already developed into the most user-friendly website yet. By this stage I was was friends with a complete stranger that I had met playing scrabble on Facebook. Facebookmania had taken the world by storm, thanks to your hard work!
2009 - Facebook now had online chat - no longer would I have to leave messages for friends - I could chat live whenever a friend was online, which was all the time thanks to how user-frriendly it was. Well done Mark! It was around this time you launched Facebook for phones, along with a string of new featues to improve user friendliness. You could see where your friends were, ask your friends questionarres, and every week the page layout would be tinkered with some tiny way. Sometimes I actually thought -wow, Facebook is trying too hard - but I now know that was just your endless striving for user friendly perfection Mark. What a guy.
Lets skip forward another year Mark. Its 2010 now and I've caved in and got a phone that supports Facebook. Peer pressure is a bitch. I dont smoke Mark but I spend a total of 2 hours every working day outside the pub I work in, or in its toilets, poking my friends on FB. I get away with it too, because I've told my boss I smoke and would need smoke breaks outside. Even though he caught me early on, it didnt matter because he too, like all the staff here, have given up smoking but kept the breaks to check his notifications regularly.
2011: More user friendly updates! It is faster than ever. Thank god for timeline. Thank god for Marky Z. Cool companies now suggest sweet products to me using the most sophisticated market aggrigating technology ever letting me know about stuff i didnt realise I needed. I had never thought about ordering a Russian Bride - until now. Big up yourself M dog! - Facebook is the most user friendly thing to have ever been created by humans - I now check my status once every three minutes on average, 24/7 no matter what I am doing. I had to buy a second phone, and can now check my status when I am on facebook - no matter where i am.
2012 - You launched Video messaging - its like I'm the same room as that manic depressive fellow I couldnt shrug off at the Christmas office party and its amazing. A personal gripe is that I no longer have the confidence in my looks since I shattered my front teeth cycling into a lampost while trying to like a Nick Clegg joke. Can you please add a tool to photoshop teeth onto the live feed?
2013 is here and Facebook is now superfast. There is a page for everything. I now no-longer need a job, an education, a dentist or GP, as I have facebook. Your journey to perfect user-friendly technology has come into maturity at the perfect time for me. I am so lucky. You see MZ, Im approaching 30. Its an important time of life for me to document. My best friends are expecting a baby any time now, and I am set to be the godfather; but I needent bug them at all about it until I get an add request from the little fella (we know its a boy, thanks to facebook's gender determination app). I keep checking though, but mainly as I have begun to get panic attacks when I don't have my phone in my hand.
So Congratulations on your success, Mark, You have made Facebook so User Friendly, I can no longer use life without it!
Love,
Hashtag Johnson. XXXXXXxxxxxxXXXX
Age 24, Oiwa
