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So after much whining about the fact that I could not play with the collaboration of Social|Median + Facebook. Well over the course of the past two days I have been reminded why I had stopped using S|M. Not being a fan of the crowded and somewhat tacky interface, it was just painful for me.

S|M feels like a quite clunky service, having a similar appearance to an excessively decorated blog. While it is easy to understand the mindset behind the layout, its still not quite attractive. The concept of the service is to make it easier for one to receive the news they want, but it just feels like a bombardment of trivial information once a user arrives.

Once there, the lack of intuitive controls make the user want to sign right off and go about their business. I do not want to incense the folks that enjoy the product as is and love the interface. I personally do not like the service but will not deter anyone else from picking it up. Fair warning though, its not for everyone.

As far as I can tell, the integration with Facebook only includes adding the likes and dislikes from S|M. Instead of possibly adopting an intermediate interface for the application, it just directs the user to the S|M main site. If you really want to checkout the not-so-chocolatey experience, you may want to wait until it makes it past the beta stage and has been cleaned up quite a bit.