My Facebook thinks I have no interests anymore!!

I used to be extremely into my Facebook profile…and yes it was carefully constructed! For every S Club 7 in the Music section, there had to be a Franz Ferdinand to balance out. As I grew into myself, I began to weed out the things I had added in to seem more well-rounded (such as artists I had in my iTunes, but to whom I rarely listened). In high school, it was definitely important to have similar tastes as friends, and it meant a lot when an artist you introduced a friend to appeared in their Music section. They also served another function: you could click on them and be taken to a list of people who also had the same things listed on their profile. 

However, when Facebook transferred these sections from enabled links to badges of pages for those artists, I grew disinterested immediately. What had been an active process of keeping the tastes section updated immediately shifted to having the section blank or near blank. Just because I had a certain film listed did not mean I wanted to be intimately associated with it; I just happened to enjoy it. It also made joke entries (such as "My Autobiography" in the Books section) not nearly as funny because they weren't accompanied with a pretty profile photo. This "upgrade" made me feel extremely limited by the structure of Facebook and was one of the major factors in limiting my Facebook use.

On my Twitter, there is no real "interests" section, although I think who I follow is more indicative of my tastes than could be described on Facebook. I try to retweet content that websites or blogs I read tweet out, or tweet links to content I find interesting. This seems to be a much more active way of portraying taste compared to Facebook's more static display.

As for updating or changing my profile for certain life events, the only changes that I make on my Facebook at this point are to take away information from my profile. I'm not really interested in broadcasting my whole taste profile out for everyone to see anymore. I suppose it was just the junction of maturity and Facebook "upgrades" that pushed me over.

Clarke B