Comments on: Is Facebook Changing for the Worse?

By: Rain

Rain — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:22:53 +0000

if you want “just” networking with nothing else, bore yourself and head over to LinkedIn.

I know FB isn’t perfect, but I enjoy much of what makes it . . . well . . . Facebook.

By: Joye

Joye — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:18:25 +0000

I like the new FB. The apps have pretty much always been useless/pointless… but it’s a neat little timewaster…

It can be clean as long as you don’t succumb to all the … little timewasting apps… I had a bit of a time navigating the options, but I haven’t had nearly as many problems as some. The folks seem nice enough when emailing complaints. I’ve emailed several with specifics. It loads quickly in Mozilla for me. I no longer bother with Explorer unless I absolutely have to.

The “Home” screen in FB IS the most interesting screen as it does give the updates on your friends. I’ve gotten a few… FEW folks from my high school group (from yahoo, to be discussed in the paragraph below) into FB and they seem to like it well enough to be hooked enough to FB MOBILE!… shrug… I dunno. I think they were far more comfortable with FB partly due to the “Home” update page and partly due to the useless apps. It’s fun, it’s social… it’s an escape.. or maybe we’re just a bunch of old fogies. meh.

The changes with FB are definitely annoying but, I still like it far better than Yahoo to be sure. Recently, Yahoo groups erased profiles and ruined my high school reunion work. Lots of folks left the group after having had personal information displayed as a default with the changeover. It took us long enough to get them online… then to have that happen… *sigh* I have thrown in the towel on that site. Hopefully, FB will work.

MySpace… not a huge fan of it, but it serves its purpose I suppose.

By: AshTR

AshTR — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:57:24 +0000

“There aren’t any sites like this anymore, for grown-ups.”

That’s because grown-ups tend not to be on social networking services. Middle-age and older adults work a daily full-time job that keeps them very busy and they don’t have time for social networking. Plus half of them barely even know how to work a computer.

I do think Facebook is getting a bit out of control, but that happens to every site. They start to add more and more because they think users want it, but it just alienates everyone.

By: Jessie Jason Macalinao

Jessie Jason Macalinao — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:49:33 +0000

I’m with Mona on this one. That’s the problem; too many useless apps. I’m quite getting tired of receiving notifications where someone wants me to use these non-sense applications.

The once-clean Facebook I’ve known for a year, has been the messy Facebook. :(

By: Chris Pirillo Entertains a Facebook Naysayer

Chris Pirillo Entertains a Facebook Naysayer — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:17:32 +0000

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By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:01:21 +0000

I think the new Facebook is easy to use. They even have yellow information arrows to tell you what certain things do. And, when I have 10 tabs open in Firefox, Facebook never crashes my browser. Facebook has never crashed my browser.

I understand some of your complaints about the messaging privacy settings for Facebook, however, overall the Facebook privacy options are vastly superior to MySpace.

By: Chip Black

Chip Black — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:26:28 +0000

I appreciate Mona’s angst, and I think the most important first step is to learn to say “no” by blocking applications for unwanted features that she doesn’t want to be part of.

Like social networking in the physical world, learning to say “yes” — to things about which you’re sure make your life better — and “no” — to the things you’re not sure you want to be bothered with — is an important life skill.

Blocking applications you don’t want will make Facebook a more pleasant experience and people will forgive you more often than you think.

By: Headphoneguy

Headphoneguy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:42:59 +0000

Honestly Chris you dissapoint me
the live feed is on the home screen moron!
The feed is on the first page you see

You dont use facebook much, eh chris?
Also, you should look up “homepage” in the dictionary
Last time i checked it means the ROOT URL (ex. facebook.com)

This Mona sais she dosent like apps, then why dosent she like the new facebook!?
The new facebook cleaned up the profile pages and focused on what mona here wants: View pics, send messages, etc.

as for the scripts…It took you 10 mins to log into facebook on FF!? I just installed firefox to try.
Im at the library, on a busy connection, running on battery power, with no cache, and it took just a few secs
Have your comp checked!

and what do you mean by friends being force notified of pics
it might appear in the mini-feed on the home page
other than that, you arent notified…
(Unless someone tagged you)
Please explain?

Sandar

By: randy_nacol2002

randy_nacol2002 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:06:53 +0000

I have to agree with Mona in many ways but my feelings is that each time they re-design the site is in most cases makes navigation of the site, some of the childish apps they have like giving you a gift of nothing….
It’s about time someone started speaking out . What is needed is for facebook to understand that mostly adults are using facebook. Treat Us Like Adults…

By: Dr. Rus Jeffrey

Dr. Rus Jeffrey — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:50:28 +0000

If you’re an adult looking for a social network type site, give Plaxo a try.

By: Lars Hilse

Lars Hilse — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:28:51 +0000

Facebook is in fact overloaded with Apps. Yet if one keeps it clean and doesn’t join every crappy trend Facebook does not crash. This of course said aside from FBs policies which are nerve-wrecking.

By: Outsanity

Outsanity — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:19:04 +0000

If FaceBook is changing for the worse, then I guess MySpace is changing for the better? Alot of sites change and it’s not like you can make them change back. Most of the time it’s because users demand this and that to be added and a new design. The other? Advertising. The only way to change Facebook or any site is for you to buy them out and change it back… And then run it into the dirt.

By: Matti Hiltunen

Matti Hiltunen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:04:20 +0000

Personally I prefer Twitter over Facebook. It’s not strictly a social network, but it allows me to easily stay in touch with people and that’s really all I care about.

By: derrek cooper

derrek cooper — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:59:57 +0000

interesting take. i tend to like the new fb, but agree it is getting a bit crowded with all of the applications. I think the iphone will see similar push back. the idea is that users begin to become so overwhelmed with choices that they begin to simply block it out ENTIRELY. so its a lose lose for everyone.

Interesting observation is how quickly people are to ridicule, become outraged over a FREE application??? :)

it is simply the way of the world right now, I suppose.