I never even knew it existed. That's probably the reason it was underutilized.
Nick
· 2 years ago
This was one of my favorite features of facebook. It was a good way to kill some time and see what everyone at my school was up to. Ah well..
Brad White
· 2 years ago
That was a great feature for Facebook. Although I didn't check it that often, it is a cool way to see what's going on with people and their interests.
Courtland Allen
· 2 years ago
I find it interesting that, having used Facebook for over a year and a half now, I've never heard of Pulse. Nor have any of my friends who use Facebook ever spoken of Pulse.
You can't much expect something to be a success if you bury it -- hell, they practically hid it -- deep within your site.
Karel - The Facebook Book
· 2 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised if their intent is simply to sell this highly commercializable data.
james
· 2 years ago
Pulse was a lot of fun but as you mentioned in your article, it was apparntly "hard" for them to put a link to it anywhere. I'm sorry but I don't bookmark URL's I visit every day and I didn't bookmark the pulse link. I couldn't remember it and every once in awhile there would be a little link for it somewhere about a random feature and it would appear. Dumb.
Bryan Veloso
· 2 years ago
Aw, now nothing I helped design is on Facebook anymore. :P
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Bryan,
You'll still have the memories. Or at least the cache. ;)
mojaam
· 2 years ago
Pulse was a good feature, seeing how many photos were uploaded in one day or pokes given out seem interesting to me. In fact it makes you want to upload. The top music/tv/movies was not that interesting to me because they are relatively the same between schools. I don't know, I still liked it and they could have done a lot more to it. Stats are always cool facebook.
Olaf Asgaard
· 2 years ago
Facebook is doing a redesign in the future. I was snooping around the other day, and I happened upon the group "Facebook Sneak Preview". From under the picture of one of the recon, er, redesign photos:
"Facebook is building a page like this for every network on the site.
You'll be able to see what's happening on Facebook at your school, company or region. Check out upcoming events, demographic info, network trends, and discussions."
And that's true. They'll have a calendar for events, trends, recent activity, and a network messageboard. Also among the updates are changes to the way in which Groups behave, so you can have just for fun ones but also serious, functioning ones that have a bit more organizational utility. Today I also read that "The new inbox allows for sending messages to multiple people at once. Also - all messages on a single thread are collapsed into one row." They are also going to update the left bar, nothing too fancy, just a little different. And finally, on your profile page, "Status has been moved. Mini-Feed is shorter and part of basic info. Fewer links beneath photo - only the essentials."
I'm sure when they do implement the changes there'll be tons of Groups popping up like "Official petition to Facebook to not change anything ever", people will start getting paranoid about the network page, mumbling stuff about Big Brother, but then, they'll just get used to it like they always do, and find all the cool new features, well, cool and useful.
Lightbright
· 2 years ago
I don't even know what Pulse is especially on Facebook and for the record I thought you were talking about on Xanga "MY BAD!"
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You can't much expect something to be a success if you bury it -- hell, they practically hid it -- deep within your site.
You'll still have the memories. Or at least the cache. ;)
"Facebook is building a page like this for every network on the site.
You'll be able to see what's happening on Facebook at your school, company or region. Check out upcoming events, demographic info, network trends, and discussions."
And that's true. They'll have a calendar for events, trends, recent activity, and a network messageboard. Also among the updates are changes to the way in which Groups behave, so you can have just for fun ones but also serious, functioning ones that have a bit more organizational utility. Today I also read that "The new inbox allows for sending messages to multiple people at once. Also - all messages on a single thread are collapsed into one row." They are also going to update the left bar, nothing too fancy, just a little different. And finally, on your profile page, "Status has been moved. Mini-Feed is shorter and part of basic info. Fewer links beneath photo - only the essentials."
I'm sure when they do implement the changes there'll be tons of Groups popping up like "Official petition to Facebook to not change anything ever", people will start getting paranoid about the network page, mumbling stuff about Big Brother, but then, they'll just get used to it like they always do, and find all the cool new features, well, cool and useful.