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Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

btrandolph — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:37:48 -0000

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/.... more recently, I covered how to get rid of all the stupid game notifications - it's very easy: http://btrandolph.com/2009/.... have fun!

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

jmwillis77 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:18:09 -0000

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?

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

juju878 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:32:27 -0000

who gives a rat's ass

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

higinio gonzalez — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:13:34 -0000

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 ?

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Liz1388 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:04:09 -0000

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?

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Marilyn — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:02:01 -0000

Bring back the "Highlights"~~

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Dee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:10:09 -0000

Are any of us all that surprised with facebook antics? I mean really -- are we?

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Jeff — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:38:24 -0000

I hate Facebook, Myspace and Ebay. So what did I do, I created Wnaderby.com

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Jessica (Redheadjessica) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:47:56 -0000

How has this affected application updates? It seems they are (Thank God!) no longer there cluttering up either feed... Did anyone else notice this?

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

jasonhudson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:31:07 -0000

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?

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

bradcooper — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:26:50 -0000

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!

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

johnharvy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:12:45 -0000

We’re unhappy! Protest New Facebook Design! It’s really wierd! We’re going to use Wovre!

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Pat Zahn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:59:09 -0000

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...

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

pcloadletter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:26:15 -0000

Take a tip from The Wandering Foodie: Spend less time on facebook and "get a life" by trolling blog comments!

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

pcloadletter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:22:48 -0000

False.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

pcloadletter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:21:54 -0000

Live feed is all.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

wordsforliving — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:46:48 -0000

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.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Ahmad Nazir — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:24:24 -0000

It doesn't seem so bad to us; most things needs changes. Maybe they did it because of bugs??

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Jamie Potter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:03:40 -0000

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.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Joe Dawson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:02:08 -0000

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!

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Aaron — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:29:21 -0000

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.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

Michael Netsch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:57:50 -0000

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.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

GlennIsDead — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:53:44 -0000

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.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

gwoodard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:45:44 -0000

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.

Re: The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest

gwoodard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:40:30 -0000

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.