Why the extra click, Hotmail?

I log in to Hotmail every day and I've noticed that they've recently decided to add an extra click to this process, for no reason at all. That means at least 365 extra clicks per year. My mouse-hand is already over-worked.

The Hotmail sign-in screen presents you with your username ready-typed in the username box and then makes you click to bring up the password box. What was wrong with having the username and password boxes displayed together, straight away, like they always have been?

What Facebook doesn't tell you

Well, I've done a fair amount of talking about Facebook on this blog and I decided it was about time I created something out of all these opinions.

One of the best things about Facebook is the way it strikes the perfect balance of keeping some actions hidden and putting some on display. We want to know what our friends are up to, but we don't want our friends to know EVERYTHING we've been doing on Facebook. We made a new friend or we uploaded photos - nothing to be ashamed of there. But ignoring a friend request or repeatedly looking at a certain person's photos - those are the kinds of things we'd prefer to keep hidden.

Just imagine if the mini-feed on our profiles looked like this...
www.sarahbromley.co.uk/facebook

What if Facebook put all these guilty secrets on display? Of course, people would turn away from the site immediately. It's Facebook's ability to aid clandestine snooping and stalking that was its initial attraction for me. And although I'd love to know more about exactly what my friends are doing on there, I certainly wouldn't want them to know exactly what I get up to.