Written by Chris Lush, reposted in full here because the entire article is win-win (by which I mean, it contains double the amount of win that a simply win article contains).
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When creating your Facebook profile, you might have noticed hyperlinks dotted around your page. This is pretty handy because once clicked Facebook will match whatever you clicked on to other people's profiles, and displays the results.
So why on earth are people writing 50 character sentences?
You're just ruining your chances of someone stumbling upon your profile by doing that. Check out the advanced search page to see what I mean. What are the chances of someone searching for "I like to play football"? If you stick to simple keywords/phrases then you'd appear with alot more people in searches and get discovered easier by great people who share your interests/favourite TV show/whatever.
The point is that everyone is networked more. This isn't MySpace, where the competition is to see how much embedded flash/java you can cram into a clashing colour schemed profile while promoting each and every indie band that exists on there, this place is sophisticated in comparison.
The "Favourite Quotes" and "About Me" sections are there to show your personality, using sentences anywhere else just hinders Facebook at what it does best.
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
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on livejournal (the interest box there works the same and was probably the inspiration for facebook's implementation) they actually have a bit of explanatory text that says almost exactly the same as the image in your post . and true to form, almost everyone actually uses it right! :)
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