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Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Dude — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:29:38 -0000

Call me a drama queen if you will, but they are being deceptive with their users. Facebook would have you believe recent changes are about their home page; they say it's been redesigned. When someone called me a grumpy change hater for noticing all the things we can no longer do, I deleted everything and deactivated the account. Basically, we had more control over our walls. Now it's just a series of blocks like tot-sized Legos. I'm not interested in a kids toy.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

JOhn Wilson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:55:20 -0000

LOL, I dont think anything will ever change Facebook users behavior.

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Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Josh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:21:45 -0000

I think the appeal in twitter is access to 'brands' and 'celebrities', not necessairily the open ecosystem.

To me facebook's closed ways work well and i think the appeal of facebook is that you are basically engaging in a more accesible version of your own life. You are in closer contact with people you know and are kept updated on what is happening in everyones lives.

This is proven to work well and i dont think twitter is a danger for FB. If facebook becomes a more open ecosystem then people will become tired of the constant friend requests and the spam which will follow... youtube anyone??

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

maven — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:39:50 -0000

StreetMavens.com a site that launched Monday is focusing on the status update as well, but doing so in a much more useful manner. The question on this site is "What's happening in your town?" This is definitely ahead of the curve and answers the question "How do you use something like status updates?" They are organizing the social "chatter" by City and further by category in real time. It allows you to know everything that's happening in your town without having to "follow" thousands of people.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Gage K. Peterson — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:43:39 -0000

I'm pretty exited myself for this myself I must admit!

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

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Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Javier Diaz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:43:37 -0000

Now I am thinking that implementing the killed FB Network pages with some Twitter features and removing the Wall should have been the way to go.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Ben Parr — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:42:53 -0000

You're right. What I should have said is that i think Facebook is worried that this possibility may be true or becoming true. And with that possibility, Facebook had to act.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Roger Toennis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:04:13 -0000

I want Facebook to spit money out of my cd-rom drive every time I reload it. Is that too much to ask?

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

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Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

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Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Bekah — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:32:39 -0000

My question is where does the line get drawn between business and personal life? I try to keep my facebook personal so that I may interact with friends, but it seems that most people are now using Facebook as their resume, so perhaps the advances for user engagement will be favorable! Twitter can be a very personal application, but it is professionally engaging as you follow and are followed. These tools will be utilized differently by each user, and Facebook has to keep in mind who its audience is and not push it! People like to keep their Facebook private and not share it with the rest of the world :-) Not everyone is a techie!

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Nathan Nash — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:26:15 -0000

If the stream is real time like twitterfall I think it would be very interesting compared to the "static" nature of facebook's current newstream. People will spend more time on the homepage watching new things stream in. Then one that peaks a users interest will eventually come along and they will explore it.

One of the reasons why I like facebook over myspace or virb is because you don't get random people trying to friend request you. You also don't get the irritating emails from bands and spammers. So in that sense I think facebook's "closed ecosystem" is much better.

I hope facebook understands that a lot of its users are there because of the privacy that they (facebook) provide them (users). As long as they don't sacrifice our privacy so that brands can solicit us online more than they already do, I won't have any problems with facebook.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Olivier Dierickx — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:15:45 -0000

If everything will be shown on my homepage, I think I'd go crazy. I have 500 friends.
If facebook shows everything they do.. :s

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Joe Dawson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:04:17 -0000

Great post I have also thought the same and I am intrigued to see how my Facebook friends will embrace the features available with the update!

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

MEA — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:55:19 -0000

Leave Facebook alone. I don't want to be friends with random people on Facebook. That's what Twitter is for. Facebook is more personal. It should stay that way.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Alice Cordonnier — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:25:06 -0000

YES, real time will change facebook users' behaviour. Indeed, they will post more comments on friends' status, they will post more new status, they will post more videos, or images. For the moment, we can see lots of changes in every user's profile, real time will make faster this changes. But it could be difficult to follow every changes, and each user will have to adapt his use of facebook to be sure to see all movements.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Adrian Moga — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:17:39 -0000

Facebook wanna map all the humans on the planet.. i`ll try to map human feelings for each person an try to connect them based on the single universal rule that build our world, when two force attract each other. View my blog for more details adimoga.com (watch and read the last 4 post)

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Alberto Bina — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:11:34 -0000

Facebook let you make friends through "groups" and it's the propose of social media: join people with something in commom. You are as exposure as in Twitter, the difference is that the microblog is more dinamic. Twitter is a fad and it's alive as long as Facebok put some similar app on.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Clara — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:29:46 -0000

Not to mention that Twitter is a fad. Such a small percentage of people have anything worth reading that people will soon give up.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Gregory Jost — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:51:38 -0000

The distinction in usage is probably what is going to keep Twitter safe for now. Until the day Facebook adds a new contact type, something looser than 'friend'.
More on this here: http://www.momentarylull.co...

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Frank — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:27:40 -0000

"I believe that most people with a Twitter and a Facebook account use Twitter more, and I believe that possibility worried Facebook enough to take this initiative."

I don't agree with that comment. Facebook users and Twitter users are two different demographics in my view, comparing the two platforms or the behaviour of its users is apples and oranges to me. I think as facebook starts to absorb some f the functionality of other Web 2.0 sites such as posting links, videos, updating status etc. these options will be better introduced to the general public and will be used more and more on facebook to keep it interesting. The closed ecosystem on facebook allows these web 2.0 ideas to be relevant as you are sharing them with your actual friends, whereas the open ecosystem on twitter means that every internet marketer and his dog want to spam it and the whole thing gets diluted and goes in a strange direction.

Keep facebook closed would be my call and share with those that you care about.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Adam — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:37:20 -0000

Like some people have mentioned, facebook and twitter are two very different things. I use them very differently. I use facebook to stay in touch with actual friends; People I talk to on a semi regular basis. Most of my facebook friends are those I actually physically meet.

Twitter I use very differently. I use it to stay in touch with my niche which is the martial arts and fitness and also tech stuff like blogging tips and random other tech stuff like mashable because im also a bit of a nerd and like all that sort of stuff.

There is room for both. Im not sure how this live thing will go. One thing facebook is doing is making new ways to interact with others which I think is the future. Even the 'like' button and such things are progress. Small by themselves but combined they all add up.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

ashik — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:22:14 -0000

Its fine as long as Im not overwhelmed with too much information.

Re: Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

Paul Mason — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:49:53 -0000

I agree with Ms Alex in particular on here - most users of both sites have a completely different group of people to hook up with when using either one. In the main, Facebook is still used for contacting family, close friends, and work colleagues, whereas Twitter is used (apart from by those in business) for meeting the most random of people that you could ever wish to... IMHO.