While I'm not a huge fan of the Facebook changes, I find the mass protests both amusing and slightly pitiful. I don't know whether it's a good thing that social media provokes such powerful emotions, or whether it demonstrates how social media exacerbates the "me too" problem of society as a whole.
I doubt that 500,000 people really care that much about Facebook's minor, if slightly irritating, change. If they really do care then to be honest they should go out and find a hobby or something, because they seriously have too much time on their hands. But it's so easy to just click on a link and "agree" even when you don't care that much, that it creates these supposed mass movements made up of hundreds of thousands of people are are, in truth, largely apathetic.
jaysal
· 1 month ago
Couldn't agree more.
candra
· 1 month ago
nothing is permanent except change, I love new Facebook page. I Know that every time Facebook change, there are a lot of people try to protest it.... I Hate those poeple who dont like change....
Leonard Challis
· 1 month ago
Every time there is a tiny change a new group pops up. GIVE ME BACK MY [insert something here]. Let's face it - If we went back to the "old" Facebook now think how primitive we'd find it. People just hate change, it's boring and predictable. The vast majority start complaining without thinking about what they are saying or actually trying out the new features properly. The changes will become the norm and then the cycle will repeat itself.
As well as this, people need to understand Facebook are providing us with an awesome free service - making things perfect takes time. Don't expect a new feature to be amazing right away. That said, I really prefer this method, and look forward to the updates down the line. I also love how I can change the default feed on my facebook home page by reordering any list from the left up to the top. This is awesome.
Kevin Manne
· 1 month ago
This happens every time Facebook changes anything. Everyone threw a fit when they switched to the Twitter-style news feed on the home page - now suddenly everyone loves it and wants it back!
jaysal
· 1 month ago
Hahah so true and ironic... Just proves people just wanna complain and are incapable of accepting change.
rgc1600
· 1 month ago
I've never complained before. In fact, I've liked the previous changes. But this one is just dumb, and I'll complain because it's warranted, if that doesn't offend you too much.
Chris Baskind
· 1 month ago
I'm not a heavy Facebook user, but I like the changes. The page is cleaner and more useful. You can see the influence of the former Friendfeed engineers.
I do think they should have called the "news feed" what it was tagged on FF, though: Best of Day. Makes its purpose clearer, and that's why it probably seems that items are 24 hours old.
bradcooper
· 1 month ago
does anyone know if there is a way to get back the the "Show hidden posts" link that used to be on bottom of the news feed? wonder why they took it away? thanks!
Name
· 1 month ago
Well, what do you expect. When Facebook (with about a zillion users) makes any change, some percentage of people are not going to like it. Here's the problem. What does FB do when 300K or so people complain? If they ignore them, they look like they don't care. If they do something, they risk alienating the people who like the change.
Facebook needs to learn that people don't like to be told what to do. If they can figure out a way to roll out changes so that they are optional and then slowly retire the previous release, things will go much better. What the complainers are really complaining about is their lack of choice.
This sounds less like a development problem and more like a marketing problem to me.
p
· 1 month ago
It's Facebook! Get over people and get a life.
D
· 1 month ago
the change is fine. what is not at all fine whatsoever is that there was no prominent message explaining the change the first time you login to the new design. just put a message up explaining. in fact, they can still do this. they should just put one up right now. you read it once, understand, and then no one is confused why their friends have all suddenly seemed to stop updating.
Jerry Zambrano
· 1 month ago
Thanks for the post. Obviously, as you said, many social hubs make changes, drastic or otherwise. I've seen many a protest at several places in my times. I've very rarely, if at all, seen that a site has responded to frustrated user's complaints.
I completely agree that it was a poor choice on behalf of Facebook. News feeds ought to be live and real time. And what's up with the refresh to get active feed updates?
Oh, well...
J.
Yrjan Lund (aka rzr)
· 1 month ago
The only gripe I have with Facebook's feed is that it still isn't customizable, after all this time. Is it really that difficult to implement options for me to remove or add what kind of messages I want in the News Feed? They added the option to hide or view specific sources, but not the type of news items themselves.
Other than that I don't see a problem, although I could take or leave the change personally. I'm ambivalent about it for one simple reason; Just switch to the Live Feed and it's basically the same as the News Feed used to be before this update happened.
I didn't understand why people were crying over the last update, and this one is even less of a change. Is it really that hard to adapt?
Gerda Kluitenberg
· 1 month ago
I dislike the change. I don't want to see a digest and I don't want Facebook to decide what is interesting for me to see. I want to see all. If I don't want to see all I can make use of the filter options.
pcloadletter
· 1 month ago
Live feed is all.
SchoolTechTV
· 1 month ago
It's a FREE service. They can do as they please with it. What you have here are ppl who simply hate change and will whine about anything. Get over it, and if you can't, leave the service.
Denise Amparo
· 1 month ago
yes it's not good. i don't like it at all. :(
Jeff Pester
· 1 month ago
@Denise; Very few if any do.
Facebook has two big problems: 1) Twitter has f**ked with their heads and has them chasing "real-time" for no apparent reason, and 2) They have a serious problem with declining core user engagement (outside of Mobwars, Farmville, etc).
The combination of the two has them chasing ghosts, and their tail, all at the same time.
kathie
· 1 month ago
If you dont like the new FB here is how you can change it back to the old. Look to the top left menu and click on MORE. Then drag STATUS UPDATES to the top. After dragging to top, click on it. That becomes your default and it is like before. Pass it on!
melissa mcgee
· 1 month ago
kathie, changing your default to "status updates" is not like it was before - this changes it to status updates ONLY - no links, no photos, no notes, no news stories, etc.
gnb
· 1 month ago
FYI: You won't see any wall-to-wall updates.
JGift
· 1 month ago
The only problem with that is that it cuts off feeds to people's links and only gives you their status updates. FB has made it an either/or situation.
Joe
· 1 month ago
Doesn't work in the fact pics....video's & links don't appear in that mode
E.J.
· 1 month ago
Kath, that only gives you status updates. It doesn't show you when your friends post pictures and links.
Name
· 1 month ago
Again Facebook puts the burden of opting out on the users--by default, everything you do on Facebook is now visible to ALL your friends, even if you had previously turned off some of the options.
jayeemm
· 1 month ago
I dont mind changes - and ones that aren't announced can be a nice surprise. But I do not like the most recent change...I really dont want my news clogged with announcements about other people adding new friends or joining new groups - boring!
Ricardo Nunez
· 1 month ago
Facebook is a joke in a whole, from the website to their users. The website is changing all the time and the users complain about everything.
Yourae
· 1 month ago
That's why I'm staying on twitter
wendyjenkins
· 1 month ago
I personally have shut myself off to any friends requests because I feel FB is invading my privacy by allowing my name to be splashed across the livefeeds of thousands of people across the world....no warning unless your a fan of the facebook page....most people are totally clueless as to how to fix their privacy settings....and for those of us with thousands of friends due to games our feeds are now inundated with useless information....BAD FACEBOOK BAD....:(
advocatus
· 1 month ago
You need to learn to manage your privacy settings, make friend lists and hide pages/groups/people on your feed. None of this is difficult, although it is a bit time consuming. Put the time into it, and you can manage Facebook in a fantastic way, like I have.
SquareWheel
· 1 month ago
Exactly. Use the lists feature like advocatus suggests, and hide pages that you don't want to hear from.
btrandolph
· 3 weeks ago
facebook has made a lot of progress toward making it possible, if not braindeads easy, to adjust privacy settings and use friend lists to control who sees what. I wrote a couple of quick how to's a few months ago: http://btrandolph.com/2009/06/facebook-friend-l.... more recently, I covered how to get rid of all the stupid game notifications - it's very easy: http://btrandolph.com/2009/10/bad-news-for-time.... have fun!
Ankit Bathija
· 1 month ago
Well you'll forgot about the Profile!!! They have made the Profile back to how it was in 2006!!! You can only see your last status update!!! Not the ones before it!!
pcloadletter
· 1 month ago
False.
melissa mcgee
· 1 month ago
you can change your default setting from the news feed back to "status updates", but then that's *all* you get... no links, photos, notes, etc. JUST status updates. news feed is preferable to status updates in that you get more information - but i don't care a wit that john smith just became friends with jane doe. i like that facebook tries to keep things from getting stale - but i hate that they fix what isn't broken. there has to be a happy medium...
Cat Johnson
· 1 month ago
It's just one more click I have to make to keep up with friends. Also, the timeline is now disjointed. My interest in my friend's every move is low. I'd rather see what they have to see than have the stream jammed up with news about unimportant details.
Cat Johnson
· 1 month ago
Make that: I'd rather see what they have to *say* Cheers.
novatom
· 1 month ago
I could have sworn I saw this "Live Feed/News Feed" option before- on Version 2.0 of Facebook for the iphone. It went away when they updated FB for iphone several months ago. How is this different from that?
Justin
· 1 month ago
People who start groups like this just show off their extreme fear of change and inability to adapt to evolving technology and software.. If I got mad and expected adobe to go back to a previous version of their software every time it changed i'd get left in the dust.
What if when they came out with email everyone threw a fit and said NO go back to snail mail this is scary and different. And everyone just said... Ya know you're right change is terrible lets ditch this idea.
Throwing fits about change doesn't make any sense to me. Adapt or get left behind.
Rita Ashley
· 1 month ago
While your post is germane, what is missing is that FB didn't fix the PROBLEMS we have been complaining about. That should have been job one. The darned site misbehaves constantly. FB devs should USE it to see the frustrations we experience.
mandymack418
· 1 month ago
The only thing i like about the new format is that the birthdays and events are higher up on my home page so i dont have to scroll all the way to the bottom to figure out if i need to wish anyone happy birthday!
Henry
· 1 month ago
great post it is insightful i don't like the new facebook i have changed it back! it is more comfortable
Sweetness
· 1 month ago
I started using FB sometime in 2007-2008 and wasn't around to see how it "previously" was. However, I am not entirely a fan of the new updates but I am a person who enjoys change as it keeps things refreshing and new. The only features I don't care to have are the fact that you can see who everyone becomes friends with on the Home screen. This information was available via individual's profiles- which to me, was enough. I also feel that the extra toggling between the "News Feed" and "Live Feed" is a bit much when trying to accurately keep up with everything. But as always, in time everyone will adapt and forget all about their complaints. I've personally started to only use FB on my phone as that hasn't changed (in a bad way).
Sweetness
· 1 month ago
I started using FB sometime in 2007-2008 and wasn't around to see how it "previously" was. However, I am not entirely a fan of the new updates but I am a person who enjoys change as it keeps things refreshing and new. The only features I don't care to have are the fact that you can see who everyone becomes friends with on the Home screen. This information was available via individual's profiles- which to me, was enough. I also feel that the extra toggling between the "News Feed" and "Live Feed" is a bit much when trying to accurately keep up with everything. But as always, in time everyone will adapt and forget all about their complaints. I've personally started to only use FB on my phone as that hasn't changed (in a bad way).
reader
· 1 month ago
100% fully agree to Name and Jayeeemm.Both of u said it ALL.., i'm updates my status about complaining that stuff, and then many of my friends LIKE the status. Now, they feel burden to do anything on their own FB profile. It because just too way much revealed (we need lil PRIVACY thou)...,and BORING as hell for me to read all that stuff in my homepage.
Come On Markk..!, don't ruin it. Dohh x(
heatherharrington
· 1 month ago
I'm totally annoyed that I can't see other people's notes or events my friends are attending on the side bar. Mostly because I count on other people seeing MY events and notes...What the heck are they thinking.
A2D
· 1 month ago
Since I knew the changeover was going to happen I knew that people would have problems with it and I also know that like previous updates people will learn to accept these changes. I have my own gripes with Facebook because I think that they could do the little things better...which I always find is a nice way to round off a good user experience. My main problem with this iteration is the constant refreshing which is a big thumbs down compared to telling us there is new updates and how many.
Donna Maria Coles Johnson
· 1 month ago
Wondering if any of these changes are required by the new contractual arrangements between FaceBook and Twitter and/or Bing, Google. Hmmmm.
Jeff Pester
· 1 month ago
Elisio
· 1 month ago
is not that I don;t like the new features, I can sure get used to it. The thinh is that the website is not working properly. I have to re-login several times while using it. Messages are not being sent, and when they are there is a popup box saying that they weren't. Has been kind of frustating to use it theses days.
JGift
· 1 month ago
Facebook has a terrible history of addressing any complaints for actually fixing the things that don't work. They have an even worse history of even acknowledging user issues.
As long as we are sheep and keep using it, they don't have to care...nor will they.
The Wandering Foodie
· 1 month ago
Lame. Get a life people.
pcloadletter
· 1 month ago
Take a tip from The Wandering Foodie: Spend less time on facebook and "get a life" by trolling blog comments!
animalbrad
· 1 month ago
Bad. and not in a good way. In order to see the live feed you have to click the button, which makes sence, but why doesn't it save it that way instead of switching to the Stupid-as-sin News feed 12 hours later?
drinn
· 1 month ago
Link attachment disappears sometimes, when trying to add a link.
I'd love to see "Media Feed" feature, where you could add all the RSS feeds you love, and want to follow via Facebook. Right next to Live Feed, and then cut off News Feed, which only shows some older posts, so in my opinion quite needless.
Yes I don't understand people complaining about these changes:
Facebook is a money making machine, it's clear that they're not going to sit on their bottoms rolling their thumbs waiting for competitors to eat their lunch.
Things are changing and will change again, so you better get over it!
msfreeman
· 1 month ago
It's not that I don't like the New Feeds I do; I enjoy seeing what my friends are up to. But, I would also like to see what I have been up to and it appears they have deleted my home page to the point that I have to search the New Feed to find out what my updates look like and whether I want to remove anything.
SquareWheel
· 1 month ago
What a surprise. I happen to like it. Next step, stop those damn spam applications from cluttering my lists.
Loretta
· 1 month ago
If I could just default to the Live Feed, then it would be fine. I'd rather have more content as the default.
alancampbell
· 1 month ago
Here's my complaint... I click on Live Feed and something from a friend is there... I refresh the page and that same item is no longer there... I refresh the page again and it magically reappears. It's become a game to try to keep up with what friends are posting. It shouldn't be this difficult.
Cris
· 1 month ago
I LIKE the changes they've made. Who friended who? That used to be on the news feed. They took it away. It's actually quite useful. I find it pretty sad that people have nothing better to do than complain. There are probably far more people that do like the changes, but because they don't voice their opinions, the complainers have the louder voice. I certainly hope Facebook doesn't listen to these complaints. The new feed is fine!
mike ashworth
· 1 month ago
i think that this relatively small change (in my opinion) has angered many really shows you that social networking does not result in happier people. group polarisation in full effect!
Name
· 1 month ago
You can't change it back to the old. That is not accurate. What is being passed on is how to set your default view to status updates. A Status update is something one of your firends writes..like have a good day..or my child is sick,,or Go Yankees. If your friend posts a link or a new picture (emphasise new)..or your fan pages post updates..you will not see them under status updates. If you send or receive gifts and hearts..you will not see them either. You may be missing some of the good stuff. If you want to eliminate new comments on old pics..or ...." is now friends" every other post then you should do the following. Go to Settings in top right -> privacy settings-> news feed and wall -> and UNcheck everything except "Wall post" This will stop all the things you don't really care about and help you not miss the stuff you do. You need to tell everyone because after you do that, you'll be eliminating your movements but you'll still see everyone elses!
lisamikulski
· 1 month ago
The changes have rendered Facebook almost nonfunctional, for me, for about a week. Can't login. Can't post status updates. My friend list is now at 0!!?? If I do manage to login, nothing works right.... errors errors and more errors.
AuntieQuaint
· 1 month ago
I can't get in at all right now...The message "Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes." has been coming up for threee hours now--I actually was in there this morning and tried to clean up the mess about "Live Feed" and to play the games I play every morning--A pink box kept saying I had to be "signed in" to complete the action--I WAS signed in. What is going on??? Any ideas?
Walldo
· 1 month ago
There are a ton of people complaining, but not about any real valid points. This has been going on for the last 4 or 5 years: Any time Facebook changes, there are a bunch of different groups and thousands of "waaah facebook sux i am gonna quit" status updates. They all learn to cope, just like they will this time. Facebook will smooth out the worst of the bugs (they are definitely there) and in two months, no one will even remember what the old facebook looked like.
Walldo
· 1 month ago
the one thing I despise about the format is that they decided to EXPAND the 'suggestions' box without a way to turn it off. Now instead of getting friend suggestions for people I don't even know, I'm being told to write on the walls of people I haven't talked to in years. I understand that is the "point" of Facebook but for the love of god, let us turn it off. Or at least when I "X" someone's name, don't re-suggest them two days later.
NO ONE that I know of wants the feed to be cluttered with "who is now friends with whom!!!!" Make it so you can opt out of what you see FROM others.......it's SOOOOO annoying!!!
Mandy Corvo
· 1 month ago
I hate all those changes. I can't get used to it and they change it again.
krissimitchell
· 1 month ago
I don't understand why "people" consistantly try to "fix" things that are not broken. Now they need to take into consideration of how many so called complaints before the change and the millions that they are getting now. As a facebook user with over 1000 friends, who in their right mind would think I want to know everytime anyone of those thousand people add a friend or join a group?? It makes no sense. No, that is almost all my pages consist of. It is ridicoulous. And who are they to say which one of my friends are important to me and who are not important enough to be on the news feed??
dbarak
· 1 month ago
Sucks sucks sucks. Too big, too fast. That's what you get for running a site like this on a 286 with 512k of memory. ; )
Mike
· 1 month ago
These guys at facebook are idiot web designers that shouldnt fuck with things that work great.CHANGE IT BACK YOU LOSERS.
E.J.
· 1 month ago
Meh if FB has proven over and over again, they don't give a damn when they tick off their users. Over a million people joined groups after the last disasterous redesign and the FB powers that be gave us all the virtual finger and did nothing. It has gotten to the point that when they make changes we just have to cross our fingers and pray it doesn't get that much worse. Awesome business model there.
AverageParent
· 1 month ago
You're right in that they have addressed concerns that have long since been forgotten. It's never comfortable to reorganize your thinking when it comes to interacting with a website. But, it's even more frustration when you're forced to do it every few months. Just when we get used to it being one way, they change it up.
Ahmad Syukaery
· 1 month ago
My news feed keep displaying old feeds unless i refresh the page, I also keep getting error messages everytime I clicked on something, it's getting very annoying
mortie53
· 1 month ago
OK so Facebook wants to make changes - I can deal with the changes - BUT, for well over a week now, my account is not available, my friends appear and are gone again, major technical issues that a big name utility should not be experiencing. I can always go to Twitter, My Space and be spared many headaches. Advertisers on Facebook should be wary of buying space on that site until they get their act together.
lola
· 1 month ago
hate it the whole thing is a mess up fb should change it back
jaycclee
· 1 month ago
I really think the live feed function should work like friendfeed or cliqset. In addition they may change news feed to other name. For me live feed is NEWS!!
Steve Lee
· 1 month ago
Typical Facebook -- don't ask anybody what they want, make changes to the personal interface and then act all surprised when there is a revolt. Happens every year or so. Now someone from Facebook will offer apologies, promised that they will do a better job of listening next time and either roll back the changes or give us a way to put it back the way it was.
How in the world does this group come in out of the rain -- they may succeed in slowing the growth of the most successful socnet on the planet with their silly arrogance.
Dustin Michie
· 1 month ago
Change Facebook Back to Normal has over 1,000,000 members in its group
I don't mind it. I refresh my page all the time anyways. Bow chicka bow wow.
gwoodard
· 1 month ago
It is easy to make sense of each facebook change when you proceed on the assumption that they will never do anything that will not (eventually) put more adverts in your face.
This includes limiting the amount of original content from friends that you can see, to make room for what generates revenue.
gwoodard
· 1 month ago
Boolean capability on the left of the live feed would solve all my issues, but facebook will NEVER do this because it would mean they could not take money from people to spam me with unoriginal content.
All I want is to see original content from friends and nothing more. They will never allow this because it would mean they would have to make money the old fashioned way with banner ads. That's too much like work. I have their number on this, bet me.
scarpi21
· 1 month ago
I don't care about this stuff. My page is just devastated. All my pics are gone. I have no friends. I can update anything at all.
Something definitely broke during the upgrade.
Michael Netsch
· 1 month ago
Oh come on! I bet that 90 percent of the people who scream "Give us our old Facebook back" are the ones who screamed this when the last changes happened. And now they have forgotten all about it. Just complaining for complaining's sake. I guess it would be uncool to like everything Facebook does now they are having such a large userbase.
Aaron
· 1 month ago
All they did was move the highlights section into the news feed, just like it used to be before the whole live stream deal - it's not a big deal.
Joe Dawson
· 1 month ago
I don't see the problem! Although I agree they should provide the former as an alternative for the vocal minority who always seem to complain about any cosmetic changes!
Jamie Potter
· 1 month ago
Has anybody else had problems actually signing in? For about seven hours now I've had the message about my account being "temporarily unavailable, try again in a few minutes" (!). On my Facebook for Android app I can see other people's status updates but can't comment or post my own (says there's no authorisation).
Somebody else I know has been locked out of their account for three days now. I'm not particularly a big fan of Facebook but when most of your close friends use it it's a pain in the backside when it plays up like this.
Unity Bond
· 1 month ago
It doesn't seem so bad to us; most things needs changes. Maybe they did it because of bugs??
Jannifer
· 1 month ago
I've never been a fan of Facebook and don't hang out much there, so when they make changes I'm not that affected or irritated about it. Seems like "growing pains" though - a pain to the users, but let's hope it'll be worth it eventually.
Pat Zahn
· 1 month ago
I'm NOT resistant to change...I thought the changes would be that I wouldn't have to endure game/app/poll results (i.e. so-and-so just found a black sheep in Farmville). Instead, it seems that FB uses some sort of algorithm to determine what is "interesting" for the News Feed and there are still some of those game results there and other things I WOULD find interesting are only visible if I go to Live Feed, where I have to endure a whole lot of clutter...
johnharvy
· 1 month ago
We’re unhappy! Protest New Facebook Design! It’s really wierd! We’re going to use Wovre!
jasonhudson
· 1 month ago
I did the drag status updates to the top, and that's great. I would love to see all the photo updates in my status updates as well (without having to click on the word "photos.") Is this possible?
redheadjessica
· 1 month ago
How has this affected application updates? It seems they are (Thank God!) no longer there cluttering up either feed... Did anyone else notice this?
Jeff
· 1 month ago
I hate Facebook, Myspace and Ebay. So what did I do, I created Wnaderby.com
Dee
· 1 month ago
Are any of us all that surprised with facebook antics? I mean really -- are we?
Marilyn
· 1 month ago
Bring back the "Highlights"~~
Liz1388
· 1 month ago
Minor change?!! Come on! I am unable to tell from any given feed what the current posts are. Newsfeed is hours old; Live Feed may be the most up to date for a while, but then reverts back to an older post; some friends don't show up at all off and on, my friend groups appear all messed up.
I had to post a notice repeatedly to tell friends how to change settings so who they friend doesn't clutter up everyone's wall. (Altho some still haven't made the change and I"m still getting Fan of notices.) I now have to click thru all the feeds just to see what I'm missing. So please don't call this a MINOR change.
And I DO NOT like FB telling me to contact my less active friends or suggest profile photos for them to use. If my friends don't want to contact me or have a photo, that's their business.
Finally, why do I suspect that FB has done this to free up all that space where Highlights used to be so they can put in a while bunch of paid advertising?
higinio gonzalez
· 1 month ago
Facebook is trying to do just that.Save face.They keep patching they're old page.What everybody from Microsoft on down knows,you have to throw the old webpage away and build an entirely new page.It took NBC 5 years to build a new webpage.Why fix it ? Why keep fixing it ? Get it ?
juju878
· 1 month ago
who gives a rat's ass
jmwillis77
· 1 month ago
It is so confusing. I post remarks, and photos, then can't find where they are visible to my friends. They send me message, and it doesn't show up. But it does show up in my AOL email. I am certain nor convinced that these changes were really an enhancement or frustration. It actually makes me feel "why the bother", I may go back to email communicating. I do like FB for the social connections. But this is a mess currently. Can someone please tell me what made the changes better?
All Comments
I doubt that 500,000 people really care that much about Facebook's minor, if slightly irritating, change. If they really do care then to be honest they should go out and find a hobby or something, because they seriously have too much time on their hands. But it's so easy to just click on a link and "agree" even when you don't care that much, that it creates these supposed mass movements made up of hundreds of thousands of people are are, in truth, largely apathetic.
As well as this, people need to understand Facebook are providing us with an awesome free service - making things perfect takes time. Don't expect a new feature to be amazing right away. That said, I really prefer this method, and look forward to the updates down the line. I also love how I can change the default feed on my facebook home page by reordering any list from the left up to the top. This is awesome.
I do think they should have called the "news feed" what it was tagged on FF, though: Best of Day. Makes its purpose clearer, and that's why it probably seems that items are 24 hours old.
Facebook needs to learn that people don't like to be told what to do. If they can figure out a way to roll out changes so that they are optional and then slowly retire the previous release, things will go much better. What the complainers are really complaining about is their lack of choice.
This sounds less like a development problem and more like a marketing problem to me.
Obviously, as you said, many social hubs make changes, drastic or otherwise. I've seen many a protest at several places in my times. I've very rarely, if at all, seen that a site has responded to frustrated user's complaints.
I completely agree that it was a poor choice on behalf of Facebook. News feeds ought to be live and real time. And what's up with the refresh to get active feed updates?
Oh, well...
J.
Other than that I don't see a problem, although I could take or leave the change personally. I'm ambivalent about it for one simple reason; Just switch to the Live Feed and it's basically the same as the News Feed used to be before this update happened.
I didn't understand why people were crying over the last update, and this one is even less of a change. Is it really that hard to adapt?
Facebook has two big problems: 1) Twitter has f**ked with their heads and has them chasing "real-time" for no apparent reason, and 2) They have a serious problem with declining core user engagement (outside of Mobwars, Farmville, etc).
The combination of the two has them chasing ghosts, and their tail, all at the same time.
Cheers.
What if when they came out with email everyone threw a fit and said NO go back to snail mail this is scary and different. And everyone just said... Ya know you're right change is terrible lets ditch this idea.
Throwing fits about change doesn't make any sense to me. Adapt or get left behind.
it is insightful
i don't like the new facebook
i have changed it back!
it is more comfortable
Come On Markk..!, don't ruin it. Dohh x(
The thinh is that the website is not working properly. I have to re-login several times while using it. Messages are not being sent, and when they are there is a popup box saying that they weren't.
Has been kind of frustating to use it theses days.
As long as we are sheep and keep using it, they don't have to care...nor will they.
In order to see the live feed you have to click the button, which makes sence, but why doesn't it save it that way instead of switching to the Stupid-as-sin News feed 12 hours later?
I'd love to see "Media Feed" feature, where you could add all the RSS feeds you love, and want to follow via Facebook. Right next to Live Feed, and then cut off News Feed, which only shows some older posts, so in my opinion quite needless.
Yes I don't understand people complaining about these changes:
Facebook is a money making machine, it's clear that they're not going to sit on their bottoms rolling their thumbs waiting for competitors to eat their lunch.
Things are changing and will change again, so you better get over it!
Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes." has been coming up for threee hours now--I actually was in there this morning and tried to clean up the mess about "Live Feed" and to play the games I play every morning--A pink box kept saying I had to be "signed in" to complete the action--I WAS signed in. What is going on??? Any ideas?
fb should change it back
How in the world does this group come in out of the rain -- they may succeed in slowing the growth of the most successful socnet on the planet with their silly arrogance.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=162102625749
This includes limiting the amount of original content from friends that you can see, to make room for what generates revenue.
All I want is to see original content from friends and nothing more. They will never allow this because it would mean they would have to make money the old fashioned way with banner ads. That's too much like work. I have their number on this, bet me.
Something definitely broke during the upgrade.
Just complaining for complaining's sake. I guess it would be uncool to like everything Facebook does now they are having such a large userbase.
Somebody else I know has been locked out of their account for three days now. I'm not particularly a big fan of Facebook but when most of your close friends use it it's a pain in the backside when it plays up like this.
I had to post a notice repeatedly to tell friends how to change settings so who they friend doesn't clutter up everyone's wall. (Altho some still haven't made the change and I"m still getting Fan of notices.) I now have to click thru all the feeds just to see what I'm missing. So please don't call this a MINOR change.
And I DO NOT like FB telling me to contact my less active friends or suggest profile photos for them to use. If my friends don't want to contact me or have a photo, that's their business.
Finally, why do I suspect that FB has done this to free up all that space where Highlights used to be so they can put in a while bunch of paid advertising?
I am certain nor convinced that these changes were really an enhancement or frustration. It actually makes me feel "why the bother", I may go back to email communicating.
I do like FB for the social connections. But this is a mess currently. Can someone please tell me what made the changes better?