I would consider myself an active user of Facebook and Twitter and I hate the current design. FB is not Twitter and it shouldn't try to be. There are different purposes and "cultures" for the two sites and FB is not as good as it was before it tried to mimic Twitter.
✮Natasha Palmer✮
· 5 months ago
SO TRUE
Paul Solomon
· 5 months ago
Facebook reportedly offered $500 million to purchase Twitter but was turned down. Many people are spending more time on Twitter and Facebook is on the losing end of this trend. It makes sense for Facebook to make changes to keep Twitter from gaining on them, but trying to look like Twitter was a mistake. According to this week's cover story in Time magazine, Twitter is "changing the way we live, and is showing us the future of innovation." Facebook is showing signs of age. In any case, I'm trying to figure out how to put all my ideas down in 140 characters or less.
fred fep
· 5 months ago
140 characters or less is insipid. Nobody can handle information anymore. All this soundbite conversing, soundbite news. Perhaps our dumbed-down society with its lack of depth and lack of intellectual breadth, likes this. Eventually it might be 20 characters, or three word slogans. Few know how to follow complex thoughts anymore.
140 character life is simplistic and reductive and insane
Paul Solomon
· 5 months ago
What's lost in all this is the act of actually talking to each other. Steven Johnson, in his Time magazine article asks, "What's next? Software that lets you send a single puncuation mark to describe your mood?" ?!
joenandez
· 5 months ago
I bet they are seeing a lot less interaction with photos, photo comments... not to mention all that uproar from app developers who had usage dive after the re-design.
Lito Munoz
· 5 months ago
i was most active in most and they BANNED me, albeit temporarily... i'm not liking this anymore. So, yes! They'd better make up their minds or something out there's gonna evolve to eat FB alive.
RicardoWilliams
· 5 months ago
I agree, those "less active people" are an important part of Facebook's market, they need not lose them.
Adam Ostrow
· 5 months ago
yep, and those of us that are more active can still get the real-time via a desktop client now. would make a lot of sense.
flo
· 5 months ago
this would be a crappy solution imho ... I don't want a desktop client for anything, least of all for facebook. (though I probably am somewhere in between less-active and uber-active)
Less active
· 5 months ago
Completely agree. Less active users are simply ignored. New system is about what people "share" explicitly like publish quiz score, than to what people "do" like profile updates. Also shy users skip instead of publish.
Also homepage is way too much cluttered with highlights. And we are missing profile updates, and even app "deeds" like somebody listened to a song in ilike.
Billytickets
· 5 months ago
I like the present layout, facebook has done an amazing job in a short amount of time
Daniel Versola
· 5 months ago
that didnt take long :)
Joe Dawson
· 5 months ago
People need to learn how to use the filters as they're there for a reason!
aliguana
· 5 months ago
oh for the love of god make your bloody minds up!
flo
· 5 months ago
this better be a joke ... so you miss out that one of your friends joined a group, took a quiz, or whatever ... who cares? the important things like photos and events are always also displayed seperately, so you don't have to see them in the "stream". Also, from a certain number of friends/acquaintances onwards, that all post regularly, you're gonna miss some things anyway. it'll just be too much. then the solution is either to hide less important stuff by default, make the stream longer by default, or somehow maybe make the stream more organized by default (less importance to quizzes and the like) or give preference to what likely matters most to "less active" people, which is status update, photos, event, and maybe keep those at the top of the stream longer (fb kinda does that already by displaying them on the right hand side on some pages)
knowyourmerch
· 5 months ago
i thought they did a good job of this before the redesign when you were able to specify "more of this" and "less of this" on each type of update.
Jason Rybka
· 5 months ago
I personally like the home page, whether it's because I like Twitter too--so I'm in that mind set--or not I don't know, so it can stay for me. I cannot remember what FB used to look like so... obviously not missing it much.
Steve Nelson
· 5 months ago
And while they're at it, they should go back to a full page "view friends" of friends instead of a small in-page, non-movable, non-resizeable window.
Rodney Ramsey
· 5 months ago
This makes no sense at all. If you move things from the Highlights to the main feed, they'll scroll away faster, not slower.
The problem of less active users is precisely what the Highlights section is intended to address.
I'm clearly missing something.
Adam Ostrow
· 5 months ago
well, it's not clear what exactly the changes will be, but you're right, it wouldn't be especially useful if they just merged highlights into the main feed. I think it's more that they might do away with the "real-time" aspect of it, or at least move that back to what used to be "live feed"
Doubledown Tandino
· 5 months ago
Facebook knows they lost something massive. A glow... an aura... a zen.... Twitter has it now. Going back to the old facebook may be the only option they have now. There's nothing intriguing going on anymore on Facebook. It didn't turn into myspace with advertising spam... but it did turn into a pool of crap showing mostly what each individual doesn't want on their pages...
anyhoo.. Facebook is over... they can doodle with it all they want... but there's nothing they can do now... except maybe focus on their dumb pyramid games.
Lesley
· 5 months ago
Good to know. I always appreciate Mashable's talent for being on top of the news I want.
✮Natasha Palmer✮
· 5 months ago
I agree with everyting said here.......back to the previous fb
Lou Stejskal
· 5 months ago
Whether you're on FB often or not, they need to bring back the ablility to see who you're friends are are "friending." The Suggestions sidebar is not the same as seeing who a specific person has linked up with from your past. I don't need to know my friend "became a fan of pizza."
On my mobile phone I can still see the "live feed" and that's where I get to see who is friending whom specifically as well as see all the comments they make on photos and then get to see the albums like before. Things I would have missed or cannot link through via the Photos sidebar filter or any other way when I use FB on my computer that used to spark dialogue becasue more friends would ass to the comments.
I don't know why it's become strictly a Living Social and Pick 5 feed. I'm more interested in seeing which groups they are joining or bands they are becoming fans of or applications or games they are adding so I can join them and miss having the choice to hide those specific applications, rather than only seeing the feeds of Living Social or Pick 5 applications.
Lou Stejskal
· 5 months ago
oops. i meant "add to the comments"
Kris Olin
· 5 months ago
I think jazzing up Facebook home as a Twitter clone was about the smartest thing they have done recently. If they go back, it will be more useless than ever. Kris http://twitter.com/KrisOlin
todd clegg
· 5 months ago
i think facebook went in the right direction with updates, because most of my friends agree that it's very easy to find out what your friends are saying. true, you can miss a lot of stuff if you don't login regularly, but still.
my only issue is that i joined facebook when you could only join if you were in school or worked for a company that was "involved", for a lack of a better term, with facebook.
so, i have quite a few work friends on there who i don't necessarily want to share everything with that i would with my close friends.
i know about the privacy settings and creating groups, but it'd be nice if when you posted a comment to your wall you could choose who gets to see it.
just my two cents...
Suzanne Lainson
· 5 months ago
I cut back my Facebook use in a major way after the redesign. And ironically, I used to monitor the live feed. When Facebook became more like Twitter, I just spent more time on Twitter. What I used to look at on Facebook were the stuff that now turns up in the Highlights. Now that I don't see most of that anymore, I don't feel like I know most of what is going on in Facebook. I also notice that Highlights doesn't highlight links, which I miss.
I think the problem with the redesigned Facebook is that it tells you what people are saying in their status updates and what games they are playing, but it downplays what they are doing and reading, which is often more interesting to me.
melodylida69 (Fab)
· 5 months ago
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lelapin
· 5 months ago
Again a change? I guess Facebook has every right to do whatever is necessary to adjust to their 'customers' but what about letting the dust settle down so that everybody would eventually get used to the lay out?
Kris Olin
· 5 months ago
Wouldn't this be a stupid move? I think Facebook has benefitted from their past experience trying to buy Twitter...and losing, and thus implementing Twitter interface into their home. Bad move if they revert. Kris http://twitter.com/krisolin
krisolin
· 5 months ago
Wouldn't this be a stupid move? I think Facebook has benefitted from their past experience trying to buy Twitter...and losing, and thus implementing Twitter interface into their home. Bad move if they revert. Kris http://twitter.com/krisolin
MonTemplar
· 5 months ago
I think they ought to consider teaching users how to manage the news feed, rather than throw it out altogether. About the only thing I would change is the Highlights area - give us an option to clear those away and reload with fresh content.
Robert MacEwan
· 5 months ago
For the life of me I can not remember someone saying how much they enjoyed the new layout. Mostly I hear complaints. Would it be too terribly difficult to let the use select which they preferred?
Ann
· 5 months ago
I'm finding Facebook a bit cluttered at this time, not as clean as I remember.
i heard facebook developer sued Ask.com in the beginning for using the Facebook logo on their new facebook toolbar! There is a bigger reason why of how this began. Ask.com made a better Facebook Toolbar than Facebook itself because the Facebook Toolbar has way too much complaints. And everyone started downloading the Facebook Toolbar. Now Ask.com has to change the toolbar name Socialmini LOL! here is the link to the toolbar. Facebooktoolbar.us See it to believe it!
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140 character life is simplistic and reductive and insane
Also homepage is way too much cluttered with highlights. And we are missing profile updates, and even app "deeds" like somebody listened to a song in ilike.
The problem of less active users is precisely what the Highlights section is intended to address.
I'm clearly missing something.
Twitter has it now.
Going back to the old facebook may be the only option they have now. There's nothing intriguing going on anymore on Facebook. It didn't turn into myspace with advertising spam... but it did turn into a pool of crap showing mostly what each individual doesn't want on their pages...
anyhoo.. Facebook is over... they can doodle with it all they want... but there's nothing they can do now... except maybe focus on their dumb pyramid games.
On my mobile phone I can still see the "live feed" and that's where I get to see who is friending whom specifically as well as see all the comments they make on photos and then get to see the albums like before. Things I would have missed or cannot link through via the Photos sidebar filter or any other way when I use FB on my computer that used to spark dialogue becasue more friends would ass to the comments.
I don't know why it's become strictly a Living Social and Pick 5 feed. I'm more interested in seeing which groups they are joining or bands they are becoming fans of or applications or games they are adding so I can join them and miss having the choice to hide those specific applications, rather than only seeing the feeds of Living Social or Pick 5 applications.
my only issue is that i joined facebook when you could only join if you were in school or worked for a company that was "involved", for a lack of a better term, with facebook.
so, i have quite a few work friends on there who i don't necessarily want to share everything with that i would with my close friends.
i know about the privacy settings and creating groups, but it'd be nice if when you posted a comment to your wall you could choose who gets to see it.
just my two cents...
I think the problem with the redesigned Facebook is that it tells you what people are saying in their status updates and what games they are playing, but it downplays what they are doing and reading, which is often more interesting to me.
I Looking 4 U Amigo!!. Respuesta!!.