Since I already have a platform to vent out, I might as well make use of it. The source of current stresses are Nokia and Socially. They do not get along with each other, I definitely cannot harmonize with them either. Lets put Nokia aside and bring this retard of an application called Socially to the forefront.

Let's start with the good: it's free. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's get to the rotting meat and cringe at the sheer sight of slithering maggots. Eeuw!

I have been using this application for about a year now.

Since my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mooned me and decided that it'll crash perpetually and would have to keeping being restarted or restored to it's factory settings, I sought out an alternative. Restoring factory setting means your applications are wiped off the phone. Backing them up didn't help, so I had to redownload my apps. Re-downloading doesn't work on it's sham of an online (Ovi) Store. Enter Socially, the downloadable alternative.

This embarrassment of an application is on Version 3.0.5, which was release on 14 March 2011, and they've done some serious debugging. Good for them. But one would think on version III, they'd have gotten their act together. My gripe is that it doesn't properly reflect the social networking sites it houses: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (which I hardly touch) and Foursquare. Third party software. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Twitter

This is properly the only reason for this post. Why did they even bother?

1. If a tweet failed to be sent, it doesn't give you an option to try resending it. And you can't go back and edit it upon failure to send. You'll therefore have to retype whatever it was you were trying to say. Quitting the app and relaunching usually helps, but these interuptions abruptly kill a conversation. Unsocially.
2. You cannot see who your followers are following. Therefore you don't have access to people that you might want to follow.
3. You cannot add people to a list. What?
4. And this is just plain retarded: you cannot edit your profile: not the profile picture, not the bio.
5. It has phonetop notifications for tweets and Facebook statuses, but it doesn't have phonetop notifications for Direct Messages and it obviously doesn't have them for Facebook mail either.
6. You cannot delete your tweets and your DMs.
7. It doesn't have a Reply to All feature. Trickery is the way around this one. You'll have to retweet, then remove everything but people's names. Cumbersome.

Facebook

1. When a friend uploads a picture and you click on it from your timeline, it takes you to ALL the pictures that that person has. No, not the one you wanted to see. Then you'll have to wait for all the thumbnails to load.
2. FB Notifications: You can't click/tap on them. This makes no sense at all. You'll have to go to your profile, find the right status update and then comment. Feels like Hide And Go Seek to me.
3. You can't like somebody's comment. Honestly, I don't know what the purpose of liking comments on Facebook is all about. Facebook doesn't have a means of showing you your past likes.
4. You also can't change and or update your profile picture.
5. Inbox: you can't compose mail nor can you reply. Really? Yes! Also, you can't delete messages.

I have only two suggestions: fix it, or make it open source. The developing community at large would tare it a new rectum semicolon.

Piracy is cool but, you're not.

Why exclude them? Are they beyond your Developers' capabilities? I don't think so. Is it a licensing issue? Switch licenses, and get the one that Echofon uses. With that said, muting hash tags will never see the time of day with that lot. It's fairly simple, if you cannot do these simple things: how are you going to keep clients and grow your consumer base? How are you going to manage a desktop app? I give up.

Anyway, enough ranting. I've got movie to watch!