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January 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Despite ordering well in advance the worst expected delivery date was not met meaning this intended Xmas gift had to be replaced
Rating: 2 / 5
January 30th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I bought this to get quickly up to speed with facebook for a works project.
Its awful. Its so full of waffle that you can barely find the facts that are hidden amongst all the guff. It spends far too much time telling me why I should be using facebook. I already know that. Anybody who actually bought this book would already know that. So why have whole chapters devoted to that topic?
I just want to get up to speed on the ins and outs with minimum fuss.
And stop telling us about things the book will deal with in later chapters! I don't mind that in the introduction, or chapter 1 even. But when you get to chapter 5, you expect to be getting the facts, not more "we cover this in chapter 8".
True, this book has taught me about Facebook, more quickly than had I just waded into it on my own, but it was a very painful route, and unnecessarily painful as well. So publishers, just cut out all the waffle and the book will be much better. If you are worried about the size of the book, include a chapter or two on app development, or have some nice pictures of kittens. Anything. Just. Cut. Out. The. Waffle.
Rating: 2 / 5
January 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I would recommend this book to all new face book users. It is so easy to follow.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 30th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I bought this because I am of a certain age and did not fully understand how FaceBook works. I operated on the worrying assumption that everything I put on it would be visible to the world at large. In the past I've never been keen to purchase any Dummies title but this was the exception and I'm glad I made the decision as the book has been of no end of help to me.
Rating: 4 / 5