It happens every time.
Every time I upload a profile photo to Facebook, and their system mangles it into a pixellated, colourless abomination. I take a moment and summon enough energy to hate Facebook.
Because, when I do it for a client’s Facebook page, it costs me money. I have to explain why the picture quality is terrible, and why their logo is getting mangled. That it’s not me, it’s Facebook.
Then I think, “What’s the point of sharing my photos? They just look like crap.”
And then, I think to myself, “But, Facebook knows that their photo uploader is crappy. They know that photos are getting mangled – and because it wasn’t always this way, they did something to make it this way.”
And then I wonder why they would do that.
And then I wonder why they wouldn’t tell us how to do it properly.
And it’s then that I think Facebook is playing checkers, not chess, and they have little hope of winning the long-game of internet domination. I used to think that it would be Apple and Google, but that was with Jobs at the helm. Now, I’m not so sure.
What do you think? How do you feel about Facebook mangling your photos?
This entry was written by Sean Enns, posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:28 am, filed under Marketing, Social Media and tagged Facebook. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.