Posted on 09/21/2011 12:32:51 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Another day, another Facebook home page redesign. According to a blog post by Facebook engineering manager Mark Tonkelowitz, users this week were treated to a revamped news feed designed to make the user experience more like a newspaper — that is, Facebook will tell you which of your friends’ updates are worth reading.
“When you pick up a newspaper after not reading it for a week, the front page quickly clues you into the most interesting stories. In the past, News Feed hasn’t worked like that,” Tonkelowitz writes. But now, “all your news will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top.”
The change sparked a flame war in comments on Tonkelowitz’ announcement, with users overwhelmingly opposed to the new system.
“Lame. Quite frankly I don’t want Facebook deciding who is most important in my life. I want my news feed to just go chronologically and if I want to hide posts from someone, I will,” wrote one commenter, whose note drew more than 1,500 “likes” from other users.
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They new way of helping the enemy.
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Nothing came up for me. What point were you trying to make?
Got any suggestions?
I can find more Info just typing in my name in a search engine. Guess I am not too important on FB.
All things being imperfect. Facebook seems to return the most active ,or ‘interesting’ first, in a search.
I also noticed that ‘Openbook’ seems to limit the number of search results 100.
Doesn’t mean your info isn’t out there. It just means it didn’t ‘hit’ on you in the search.
If there are 20,000 ‘Smiths’ then your not always going to get ‘you’ (if you’re a Smith) in the return.
I think Openbook was set up to show you what was happening ‘behind the scenes’, so to speak.
I’ve only hit on my own last name a couple of times myself.
read post #26
Facebook wasn’t always creepy like that. I was a college student 6 years ago. Facebook was cool back then because it was exclusive. To me, facebook jumped the shark once everyone’s mother could log on facebook.
Mine came up with this
“No more results. Try another search!”
The point is, that even though you set you Facebook page to ‘private’, it’s not..
I use FB in a very limited way.
The only thing I have on there my ‘screen name’. Nothing else.
I agree but, it seems like it wants to do too much. I like NLP’s “Nice Little Products” I don’t want one site for everything. Just do what you do well and I will go where I want to go for other stuff.
“Facebook is not for everyone.
But I love it, as do millions of others.”
I found long lost friends and relatives on Facebook. I don’t know I would have re-connected with them without it.
How in the world can Facebook know what “news” will be most interesting to me? Stop making these stupid changes, Facebook!
But when you go somewhere else for other stuff you’re not seeing the ads FB sells. FB is just like a TV network, they make their money selling your eyes, so they want your eyes as much as possible, so they try to be all things to all people.
My name didn’t come up. Whew!
Just deleted my account.
They’ve been paying attention to what words show up in posts that get the most likes. They’ve learned that stuff about jobs, relationships, and children is really the news people are most interested in from their friends. Which they probably didn’t need to track anything to get, anybody that’s ever gotten a Christmas letter knows that, but they gathered data anyway.
You can tweak it some, you can change the filter on your friends (one at a time) to show everything from them. They really need to dramatically increase customizability, they have a lot of halfway decent ideas that if they gave me a dozen options to fiddle with could be perfect.
Jumped the shark into a pit of money. Cool isn’t nearly as profitable as uncool but used. 1/9 of the planet is on FB, think of what they can sell adds for, Super Bowl ads don’t get that much viewership.
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