i absolutely agree about the chat, it's the most unstable way of communication ever...
Sandra
· 1 year ago
The chat client sux so much it's unreal. I do exactly what the author said - say hello and tell people to get the hell on gtalk! lol
Viralwordpress
· 8 months ago
Well you can now, with the help of new Facebook apps, message people from your mobile phone which makes sitting at your computer almost obsolete.
Pamela Reinsel Cotter
· 1 year ago
I also don't like the "add a link" feature -- you can't ever change anything, even if it comes up with a subhead that doesn't explailn why you're linking.
Angel
· 1 year ago
Oh gosh yes. The "add a link" and the inability to edit anything on it. I hate when you add something, only to get no headline or some subheading that is totally unrelated to what you linked. Comment editing would be nice too. And don't even get me started on the chat feature.
Mike Belgrove
· 1 year ago
I agree with most of what you said above. In particular the issues with Facebook Chat
b
· 1 year ago
you guys are sooo in love with FB
Melea Seward
· 1 year ago
This is a good list. I would add that another problem is creating an event as an administrator of a Facebook GROUP. When you create an event, you only have three options on who you can invite: 1. One click to the entire group, 2. Friends (check off the friends you want to invite), 3. people in and around facebook with email addresses.
I would like to be able to invite SOME of the people who are part of my GROUP for a particular event (possibly based on geographic location, etc). Not all of the people in the group may be my facebook friend, nor do I want them to be.
That's my gripe this week... -Melea
D.
· 1 year ago
Only two things majorly irk me about Facebook...
1) The News Feed lags beyond belief. Seriously, stuff from three days ago shows up three days late. Not cool.
2) The whole Events thing needs to be improved. I'd like to search for events between certain dates, and certain categories only as well. It would also be nice to search for events that are within a certain area only as well.
Other than these two, Facebook is great. Sure, the private messaging and chat need to be worked on, along with some other features, but those are my top two.
Glenn Batuyong
· 1 year ago
Facebook should partner with a prominent event scheduling system like Eventful, Upcoming.org, zEvents, etc. The calendaring system in Facebook is just a rehash of a generic ICS-based setup, like a barebones Google Calendar. But imagine the social extensibility if you could import a live event from Eventful instead of entering in information manually and share a Facebook-created event externally (and not via generic ICS). Examples include the integration of Eventful into Topix local news and Upcoming.org events with Flickr.
Steve
· 1 year ago
You should just build an Event planning app for facebook and see how it works.
Make it happen Steve
HM
· 1 year ago
One of the really irritating things, in my opinion, is the fact that I can't seem to search my friends' events. I'll see on the news feed "Jane Doe is attending XYZ Party" and I can go to it. But I can't find a way to search my friends's events. If it's on my news feed, it's not a secret, so why can't I search their page or facebook for it, in the event that I forget the name of the party, or just want to find somewhere fun to go on a Friday night??
Steve
· 1 year ago
What they need to do is buy Twitter and mesh both technologies.
Follow me Twitter.com/Rundezvous
markbate
· 1 year ago
To be honest I don't use that much of the online site.. it's nice, but it's just gotten too big & it's feature overload. I tend to use the iPhone app more as it's just a quick and simple way to get at what you want right away. The device forces things to be easy to find & use. The annoying thing about the iPhone app though is there's no event stuff in there, which is great when you're on the go and need to find out the address of an event.. especially seeing as there's no subscribed cals on iPhone, so your fbCals for events & bdays don't show up.
Eph Zero
· 1 year ago
Block/allow individual friends or groups of friends in chat. I'm not necessarily on a chatting basis with _all_ of my FB friends, and I often sign out just to stop being bothered. But I'd prefer to be available to my VIP list.
Cherie
· 1 year ago
In the News Feed Filtering, I'd like to able to use groups when specifying the "more" or "less" people you want to see.
bikingtoronto
· 1 year ago
I can't believe nobody has mentioned RSS feeds yet.
It would be great if you could, say, subscribe to an RSS feed for a group or page.
Eph Zero
· 1 year ago
Yes, great idea. I tend to join groups and forget about them because I have to go check which ones have activity, instead of having new things pushed to me.
Greg Tidwell
· 1 year ago
I cannot stand their messaging system. Exactly what you said: More Like Gmail. Let me archive.
joolliee
· 1 year ago
Facebook Pages need a major overhaul, a great concept, but could be so much better. If I listed the types of features and improvements I'd like to see, it'd be a blog post in its own right.
Zed
· 1 year ago
Facebook has CHAT?
Steve
· 1 year ago
Facebook is getting wonderful feedback. So, I expect Mark Zuckerberg to give us a kick back on his R&D. I really can't beleive how much success they have had. The messaging setup and communication funnels are not the best.
Cheers and Follow Twitter.com/Rundezvous Steve
Dave
· 1 year ago
Facebook is such a major pain in the butt,that i'm seriously thinking of quitting it.The Chat feature is just pathetic,if i manage to chat to anyone for more than 30 minutes,without one of us apparently going offline,then a miracle has happened.Most of the apps don't work properly and it's just so slow some days as well.It's ready for a major overhaul and some of the applications being sorted out as well.
g0ma
· 1 year ago
cheers for a better FB!
Louis Yung-Hoi
· 1 year ago
Arrgh...you cannot send a message to all your fans on Facebook Pages and can only send minimally featured updates (no pics). ALSO, the updates seem to be anti Mitch Heberg and won't "embrace the contraction" opting to display words such as "can't" and "didn't" as "can//t" and "didn//t". Status modes on chat would be nice too. Offline to me suggests you're not logged in, when I clearly am, I just don't want to person X, but would like to chat to person Z, so an 'away' or 'busy' mode would be groovy.
Ceri Griffin
· 1 year ago
I am in danger of repeating everyone else's comments but:
1) Chat is a pain in the exterior. Why cannot it be integrated into MS Messenger? 2) e-mail - again it should be integrated as a website service. I get e-mailed status changes so why shouldn't I have a copy of the e-mail messages as well? 3) RSS - YES PLEASE 4) I think they were looking to buy out Twitter - although I am frightfully unimpressed by Twitter. A twitter-like feature could be of use, though, although statuses are a reasonable alternative. 5) A "feedback" application could be of use to gather all observations into one place.
In my normal cynical manner I don't expect any response to any of these comments; but one can always hope!
KFrancis
· 1 year ago
Another thing about Facebook Events .. is that they only half work. For events where it's more than one day (like for a theatre show for example), you should be able to pick certain days, and have people reply what days they *might* or will come on. That would be useful.
Also, advertising for these long events seems to stop after the first day has gone past.
Joe Bachana
· 1 year ago
This s a great post! I hope Facebook picks this up, I agree on all counts. The event forms is quite byzantine and it doesn't make sense the one cannot define multiple dates, particularly for performance events.
I'd also like to see them offer a built-in privacy/security analysis program for people. Some wizard interface that talks users through a series of questions about their privacy/security needs then configures their profile accordingly or reports back where they might be exposed.
John P.
· 1 year ago
Good stuff. The badges don't redirect properly (at least mine don't). Got to mention how completely lame the Blackberry application is. It's almost useless.
Mike Honcho
· 1 year ago
Facebook is free
The only thing you give to Facebook is your time.
Why in the hell should Facebook give a crap about pleasing you. What do you give them? Do you buy the products that they advertise? Do you want to meet singles in the town in which you live?
No... You just want to write on walls, make plans in planners, give your buddies eggs and stickers and whatever other BS Facebook comes up with to pease you children.
But please, continue whining about how the site has just been totally ruined by the new layout and how you can't chat with the girl you met at the mall six weeks ago. Stalkers.
now...I have to go update what I'm doing
Myla A.
· 1 year ago
About e-mail: Yes to drafts, especially since if you get distracted and add an 'x' and start clicking around, you may never get back to your message. I basically never add anything now to messages.
Worst new development: Red flag ad/spam in bottom menu Notifications. You can turn off an app's email Notifications, but you can't turn off most apps' bottom menu Notifications besides removing the app alltogether which I think I might start doing. Used to be those red flag Notifications were personal to you, e.g. "Friend A wrote on your wall." Now, it's "App Y had babies blah blah blah," and "App Z added a new game." Time to start removing apps left and right.
facebook junkie
· 1 year ago
They should definitely improve the chat feature, it really sucks...
Wayde McKelvy
· 12 months ago
I have to concur with the comment about the Blackberry FaceBook application being useless. It only sucked up memory on my phone and wouldn't actually allow me to interact with anyone. I could see I had a new friend request, but not the accompanying message and I couldn't send messages. I finally took it off my phone and just do FaceBook the old fashioned way.
I also agree that FaceBook is free, so I'm willing to put up with some minor inconveniences. There are so many social tools to choose from, I try to utilize the combination that helps me stay the most connected.
Dave
· 12 months ago
How Facebook Chat could get any worse is beyond me,but it's managed it,for the last 3 evenings,it has been virtually useless.Chat history keeps disappearing,people you are trying to chat to,apparently going offline every few minutes and then the refusal to send messages occasionally.It's a complete waste of time and my friends and i have given up with it.
Ceri Griffin
· 12 months ago
I have to agree that since FB is free, we only have a limited amount of control over it. What business model should be used if we were to pay for it, and how much should it cost?
I have played around with twitter and am not impressed and do not have the time in the day to explore other sites - after all we all have a life to lead. So I accept the adverts and the other bits of paid-for content on the basis that it is not cost me anything. Every time I use Google I get a shed-load of sponsored links and ads - facebook is no different.
Me
· 5 months ago
Facebook needs to have a delete account option.
T Smith
· 3 months ago
I'd really like to know why they did away with the "reply to" button in the discussion forums.
It makes communication difficult at best. The worse thing is, if you are the creator of a thread, then you get every single notification. Yes, I realize I can turn off my notifications, however, I am an admin on a 1M+ group, so I need to know when some responses are happening.
Sadly, we have had many people leave our group and facebook altogether because of this huge inconvenience. Posting has become more of a hassle and facebook discussion forums are losing "user friendliness"
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I would like to be able to invite SOME of the people who are part of my GROUP for a particular event (possibly based on geographic location, etc). Not all of the people in the group may be my facebook friend, nor do I want them to be.
That's my gripe this week...
-Melea
1) The News Feed lags beyond belief. Seriously, stuff from three days ago shows up three days late. Not cool.
2) The whole Events thing needs to be improved. I'd like to search for events between certain dates, and certain categories only as well. It would also be nice to search for events that are within a certain area only as well.
Other than these two, Facebook is great. Sure, the private messaging and chat need to be worked on, along with some other features, but those are my top two.
Make it happen
Steve
Follow me
Twitter.com/Rundezvous
I tend to use the iPhone app more as it's just a quick and simple way to get at what you want right away.
The device forces things to be easy to find & use.
The annoying thing about the iPhone app though is there's no event stuff in there, which is great when you're on the go and need to find out the address of an event.. especially seeing as there's no subscribed cals on iPhone, so your fbCals for events & bdays don't show up.
It would be great if you could, say, subscribe to an RSS feed for a group or page.
Cheers and Follow Twitter.com/Rundezvous
Steve
1) Chat is a pain in the exterior. Why cannot it be integrated into MS Messenger?
2) e-mail - again it should be integrated as a website service. I get e-mailed status changes so why shouldn't I have a copy of the e-mail messages as well?
3) RSS - YES PLEASE
4) I think they were looking to buy out Twitter - although I am frightfully unimpressed by Twitter. A twitter-like feature could be of use, though, although statuses are a reasonable alternative.
5) A "feedback" application could be of use to gather all observations into one place.
In my normal cynical manner I don't expect any response to any of these comments; but one can always hope!
Also, advertising for these long events seems to stop after the first day has gone past.
I'd also like to see them offer a built-in privacy/security analysis program for people. Some wizard interface that talks users through a series of questions about their privacy/security needs then configures their profile accordingly or reports back where they might be exposed.
The only thing you give to Facebook is your time.
Why in the hell should Facebook give a crap about pleasing you. What do you give them? Do you buy the products that they advertise? Do you want to meet singles in the town in which you live?
No... You just want to write on walls, make plans in planners, give your buddies eggs and stickers and whatever other BS Facebook comes up with to pease you children.
But please, continue whining about how the site has just been totally ruined by the new layout and how you can't chat with the girl you met at the mall six weeks ago. Stalkers.
now...I have to go update what I'm doing
Worst new development: Red flag ad/spam in bottom menu Notifications. You can turn off an app's email Notifications, but you can't turn off most apps' bottom menu Notifications besides removing the app alltogether which I think I might start doing. Used to be those red flag Notifications were personal to you, e.g. "Friend A wrote on your wall." Now, it's "App Y had babies blah blah blah," and "App Z added a new game." Time to start removing apps left and right.
I also agree that FaceBook is free, so I'm willing to put up with some minor inconveniences. There are so many social tools to choose from, I try to utilize the combination that helps me stay the most connected.
I have played around with twitter and am not impressed and do not have the time in the day to explore other sites - after all we all have a life to lead. So I accept the adverts and the other bits of paid-for content on the basis that it is not cost me anything. Every time I use Google I get a shed-load of sponsored links and ads - facebook is no different.
It makes communication difficult at best. The worse thing is, if you are the creator of a thread, then you get every single notification. Yes, I realize I can turn off my notifications, however, I am an admin on a 1M+ group, so I need to know when some responses are happening.
Sadly, we have had many people leave our group and facebook altogether because of this huge inconvenience. Posting has become more of a hassle and facebook discussion forums are losing "user friendliness"