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Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

elia — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:35 -0000

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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Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Ann — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:05:20 -0000

I'm finding Facebook a bit cluttered at this time, not as clean as I remember.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

macewan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:11:25 -0000

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?

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Paul Solomon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:13:56 -0000

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?" ?!

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Alan Ralph — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:42:01 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

fred fep — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:39:05 -0000

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

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

KrisOlin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:07:58 -0000

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

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Kris Olin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:45:25 -0000

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Less active — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:30:37 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

plerudulier — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:44:22 -0000

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?

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

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Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

knowyourmerch — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:32:23 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

agonist — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:51:16 -0000

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...

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Kris Olin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:13:28 -0000

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

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Lito Munoz — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:21:59 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Lou Stejskal — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:29 -0000

oops. i meant "add to the comments"

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Lou Stejskal — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:15:46 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

✮Natasha Palmer✮ — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:52:21 -0000

SO TRUE

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

✮Natasha Palmer✮ — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:49:59 -0000

I agree with everyting said here.......back to the previous fb

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Lesley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:29:33 -0000

Good to know. I always appreciate Mashable's talent for being on top of the news I want.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

TheReason — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:26:12 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Adam Ostrow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:08:40 -0000

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"

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Rodney Ramsey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:39:52 -0000

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.

Re: Rumor: Facebook to “Undo” Twitter-like Homepage

Steve Nelson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:10:05 -0000

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.