facebook is now absolute garbage

it's from this link: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5177341/even-f...te-the-redesign

i forgot to include it in my previous post

With all of this talk about Facebook, I'd be curious to see what you guys thought of this:

  Wall Bird said:

With all of this talk about Facebook, I'd be curious to see what you guys thought of this:

 

What I think about this video is...

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  Wall Bird said:

With all of this talk about Facebook, I'd be curious to see what you guys thought of this:

 

What I think about this video is...

 

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read the rules man

  Wall Bird said:

With all of this talk about Facebook, I'd be curious to see what you guys thought of this:

 

all that is mostly just for trolling though.

HAY LOOK THIS FAG LISTENS TO CREED> LOL.,m

the twitter app on facebook offers the option of updating your facebook status from your tweets (god, this is confusing...)

i smell a merge, eventually.

  kaini said:

the twitter app on facebook offers the option of updating your facebook status from your tweets (god, this is confusing...)

 

i smell a merge, eventually.

Facetwatter

i like it.

lol

I think chax is taking this WAY too seriously

  chax said:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-willma...t_b_175358.html

 

Facebook used to be so good, I enjoyed "connecting" with people and posting on their walls, posting photos for my friends, and finding events and stuff...but since they changed everything to be more like Twitter, the site has become an absolute abortion. No control over anything +forced ads everywhere, people updating their 'status' every 15 minutes, just totally retarded, no customization of views or the livefeed, just pure shit. Everyone on the site hates it, all my friends hate it, there's over 500,000 people who have all said they hate it. Will facebook actually do anything and listen to its users and pretend to care? Nope...

 

There are tons of petitions and stuff to bring back the old facebook but I thought it would be cool to take it a step further...THE FACEBOOK SUICIDE PACT!

 

I created an event encouraging everyone to delete their accounts on March 27th if Facebook didn't change back to how it was. There were thousands of people invited, 300 people signed up and were ready to do it, I was hoping to get mainstream media attention etc. THEN facebook decided that I somehow "violated their terms of service" and deleted my account and the event. The Facebook suicide turned into homicide :D

 

I know they won't go back to the old version, but overall it really is the downfall of the site. I did enjoy using it while it was good. Oh well

 

RIP Facebook

Oct 28 2003 - Mar 13 2009

Watmm is more interesting than facebook

I think people who "hate" the new design are strange. I use Facebook every day and barely notice the changes.

To me, it just seems like they combined the ads with user-created content on the right side of the page. Additionally, they changed the look of things a bit. However, I'm no Facebook expert. I just use the site.

I don't know. Maybe I'm not using Facebook properly. I joined the site for fun, and this is what I'm still having so I'll continue to visit the site.

I still communicate with my friends through it. I still upload photo albums of what I'm up to so my friends can see them and comment on them. I still flirt with girls indirectly and directly on it, and I solidify real-life relationships by communicating online in addition to creating new real-life relationships after "meeting" online.

Perhaps there just aren't as many "knobs" on Facebook for you folks to twiddle now.

Snap?

Sincerely, TD

"perhaps" you are right

I just did some random lurking on Facebook and found this:

Boy or girl?

It's the high school pics of that dude from the Calx Sherbert/Maja threads.

kinda looks like Avril Lavigne...

Anyway one thing I for sure saw on facebook, is a total non-understanding of _every_ friend I have. They are all going "wtf I'm so confused I don't know what to do". That didnt happen with other changes. Not only that, but I saw at least a diminution of 50% of all the content I usually see from them. It's not a "oh its hidden somewhere else" diminition, it's a plain one of people not being happy or satisfied with how to share with others. Which means less facebook time, which means less advertising dollars to facebook. Which means that facebook is fucked if they don't change. I am already seeing this on the right panel, advertising mixed up (= not being only the top one) with facebook updates by other. Confusing people will evidently ridiculise facebook.

We just want to see clearly what others want to share. Nothing else... Twittering doesn't mean what mr. and ms. everybody want to share. We couldn't care less about small talk via "What are you feeling?" boxes.

my girlfriend used to use facebook to browse photos and interesting things related to our friends. facebook changed for the worse and she now browses watmm instead, for the lols, and i think she's better for it even though it destroys any amount of credibility or humanity i may have at some point had.

Maybe everyone just needs some time to get used to the changes.

EVER THINK OF THAT, YOU NEGATIVE NANCIES?

edit: I probably won't use Facebook much anymore now that I have a girlfriend so moot moot moot 9000.

Do you do that thing with your pinky to her?

  autopilot said:

It's the high school pics of that dude from the Calx Sherbert/Maja threads.

I love how much we are on your mind! you must be a closet sopor fan now.

I wouldn't say "closet fan". I think my heavy application of mascara and fishnet sleeves put it right out there in the open.

I had a facebook that this girl made for me

forgot about it until I started getting facebook emails and shit

couldn't figure out how to delete my account, then found out I had to delete every post and photo and item of information I had ever contributed - MANUALLY.

lucky for me I never even used it so I deleted the shit and sent the facebook fairies an email saying delete me from your servers.

today I got a private message from my friend. and while it was cool to hear from my friend, it also meant that facebook failed to fulfill their contractual obligation (it's in THEIR fine print!) to delete all personal information upon request.

which is not cool.

  autopilot said:

Do you do that thing with your pinky to her?

She likes it.

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't love the Stinky Pinky.

I don't personally give a fuck what facebook does but I will share my feelings with most of you and add that it's becoming a bit chatroom like.

http://gawker.com/5180888/facebook-haters-...-million-strong

Whoever Zuckerberg's listening to, he's doing so at Facebook's peril. Compete.com, a Web-traffic research firm, shows a steady downward trend in time spent on Facebook since the rollout of the redesign a week ago:

Presumably, the downward trend spotted by Compete is because there's less click-through from the Facebook homepage.

The old newsfeed included lots of viral events that required a click-through -- if your friend joined a group, RVSPed for an event, or friended somebody/something that interested you, you would probably click through to that group/event/person's page to find out more, and possibly join/RSVP/befriend it yourself.

The new feed format greatly downplays viral activities in favor of status updates. You don't need to click anything to read the update if the whole thing is on your homepage, and (despite what twitter's fans might tell you), most status updates aren't worth commenting on. The new newsfeed is a more passive experience for the end user. Passive experiences need less attention.

It's frankly a mindboggling decision to emphasize the less interactive features of Facebook over the click-generating ones. In a site that's (theoretically) planning to make its bank off advertising, don't you want more pageviews?

Really, you have to wonder why Zuckerberg is chasing the hype of Twitter, which has both fewer users and even less of a business model than Facebook. I suspect he's bought into his own hype. He's so committed to being the visionary of social networking, he's now being "disruptive" just for the sake of being disruptive. Somebody needs to take the kids aside and tell him that "being talked about" isn't necessarily the same as "being successful."