ABC News and Facebook recently added the US Politics application which tracks what's happening right now in the world of politics. As the 2008 presentational race is heating up, there are daily polls for capturing the views of Facebook users.On my computer and web browser (Firefox 2 on Ubuntu Linux), the user interface for these polls is so messed up that I cannot vote at all. Determined to participate in the polls, I emailed Facebook support to let them know that they needed to fix the application for Linux users. This was their response:
Hi Ken,This is pathetic for a website like Facebook that would like to, and probably will, sign up everyone in the world eventually. There are millions of Linux users that they are leaving out by having this policy. Also, support for Linux wouldn't be that difficult to achieve. In fact, I have been using Facebook heavily on Linux for the past few months and this has been the very first problem I've experienced.
Unfortunately, Facebook is not meant to work with Linux. Please switch to a different operating system for best results on this website. Let me know if you have any questions, and I'd be happy to help.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Maude
User Operations
I wrote another email to Facebook urging them to support Linux users. If you care about the future of Facebook and other large web sites working well on Linux operating systems, I urge you to do the same.
