Oh Facebook how you’ve grown so much, but your ads are still awful.

Your ads are creeping me out! Who cares if this image is real or fake or how many people can’t pass the illusion test. You have put an image to my head that I will never be able to unsee.

Totally Disturbed,

Erin

Maybe if advertisers created better, more interesting and less incredibly disturbing ads users would not be so against display ads on their favorite sites.

(via @jholic)

Mashable declared the that Streamy would take over as the FF loyalists announced their dissappointment and retreat back to Twitter (ugh social media folks are soooo dramatic).

I’ve tested out Streamy and I totally agree; Streamy will be a new and improved version of FF if enough people adopt.

Why is it so great? Well, they’ve integrated a reader into the service to start. Twitter and FF is all about sharing links, and discussing what’s going on. In Streamy’s reader I can sort my subscriptions, browse what my friends are reading and instantly share the articles along with my comments across a variety of social networks. There is a built in URL shortner and a place for comments. Sharing is easier in Streamy then in any other platform.

They’ve also integrated more than just other micro-blogging networks. Through Streamy I post to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and I can email it other contacts.

Plus their reader is super slick. I’m a bloglines loyalist, but Streamy doesn’t erase old stories in my reader when I read them – they’re all still there. Through the categories I’ve set up for everything I subscribe too I can read my news by specific website or through categories allowing me to quickly scan for the top news stories and then drill deeper into individual sites for more information.

I love Streamy!

Once you create an account, be my Streamy friend