I had a crazy trip to Boston this weekend. Both ways, the driver got lost and actually asked the passengers for directions! Luckily, everyone had smartphones and could easily provide assistance. On the way into New Haven, the driver got lost multiple times and would have driven around for who knows how long if I hadn’t jumped into the seat behind him and given him turn-by-turn directions.

I was curious how the driver got his directions in the first place, so I asked. He handed me a sheet of paper that contained a giant paragraph of all-caps text explaining how to get from point A to point B. It didn’t even have line breaks between steps! If he made a single wrong turn (he made about twenty) he would be lost. Why wouldn’t Greyhound give their drivers a GPS? Is it so expensive?

How come every time Facebook makes some change, my news feed is full of people complaining? Is this a vocal minority or do most people dislike it when Facebook makes changes? They are about to offer people usernames (optional, I think) and I’ve already seen a bunch of people posting some kind of complaint about it on their status.

My personal opinion is that Facebook has gotten better and better over the years and I’m usually pretty happy when I see it evolving. Even when I do dislike a change (e.g. including comments inline with the feed) I eventually accept it and stop caring.

Facebook is such an emotional thing for people, it’s interesting to see how attached people get to it. How do you feel about Facebook’s evolution?