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Wow, I can't spell.

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I find the News Feed useful, but I would like it more if I could chose what actions are displayed, I don't really care who commented on who's wall or what everyone of my friends status has changed to. The Mini-Feed should also be configurable, I'm not afraid about being stalked, but there are actions that people just have no interest in knowing, like what sections of my profile I've edited. I haven't been using Facebook for long, but the atmosphere seems MUCH more mature than myspace, so I don't think that these features are bad or useless, they just need to be able to be configured, like most everything else on Facebook is.

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As I watch this feed, I am starting to notice only major events happening, or else it's just buggy. Anyone else noticing this? Friends with recently updated profiles aren't showing up on the feed, but creation of a group and new notes are showing up.

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yeah the concept of incorporating RSS into facebook isnt a terrible idea, it's just the way they went about it - it's the equivalent of adding every bookmark in your browser's RSS feed to your aggregator, it's just not selective enuff to be useful - why dont we A) start w/o any subscriptions, so we can add just who we'd like to keep up with this way and B) have control over what portion of your personal info gets dumped into your info feed, for example, just post when i add a buddy or join a group, but dont post when i comment or change my relationship status - that way both the subscriber and the subscribee feel comfortable - the person reading the feed doesnt feel bombarded by unwanted info and person sending out info feels comfortable w/ the amount of thier own info going out to be broadcasted - it's a ridiculous notion that every person u save as a buddy is a "trusted" person to the pt where u feel comfortable w/ them knowing ur every move, not to mention, people that arent saved as ur friends can still see your info in other people's feeds, so the theory of "i dont save stalkers as buddies" doesnt really hold bc ur buddy mite, or ur buddy's buddy mite - and OMYRAK, u said "if ppl disabled thier mini-feeds, how would we keep up w/ what our friends do?" um. how about you ask them what theyve been up to?? see this is thing w/ facebook - in a lot of ways it mirrors a universal college campus, so each account is representative of the student on that campus...the ppl saved as friends could be anybody ranging from somebody u had class w/ 2 yrs ago and havent talked to since to ur closest friend...i think the creepiness starts at the point where the social part of the friendship is left out, like u dont have to talk to the person to find out they broke up w/ thier b/gf bc u read it...i imagine this wont pose much of an issue for less social types, say the kinda ppl who post like 60+ times to the same topic on digg haha

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The new facebook is in serious need of three things:1. The ability to control what news appears on your homepage2. The ability to control which friends can see your news3. A less-ugly layoutThat'll take care of the information-overload and stalking-too-easy complaints.With those fixed, it's actually a really interesting feature. It nicely supplants certain blogs--I'm thinking the 'today I went to the doctor's then I broke up with my boyfriend lol" variety--making it really easy to keep tabs on the few close friends whose lives you really ARE interested in. I think it's an improvement.If you're a facebook member and want to join the fun:<a class="user" href="http://harvard.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208093952&quot;&gt;http://harvard.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208093952&lt;/a&gt;

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Here are some graphs of people joining during the day and other useful info:<a class="user" href="http://www.flightpad.net/facebook.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.flightpad.net/facebook.htm&lt;/a&gt;Enjoy.

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Mark Zuckerberg: Founder of Facebook Responds, please read details here: <a class="user" href="http://techaddress.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/mark-zuckerberg-founder-of-facebook-responds/&quot;&gt;http://techaddress.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/mark-zuckerberg-founder-of-facebook-responds/&lt;/a&gt;

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