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- theGrue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34It just shows you things about your friends... If you felt it necessary to friend 500 people at your school that you've only met at parties once, fix that first, complain about stalkers later.
- Daiken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26I just want to be able to turn the feature off.
- anonyjames, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Facebook is spam free, minimal ads, etc. It is terrible on myspace to have to click on each one of your friends' profiles to see if they updated anything. The new facebook features just aggregate public information. I think that's a good thing. Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to filter out some of the less relevant stuff, or only show changes by certain friends, but at least they're getting on it.
Also, facebook isn't down / slow all the time like myspace is. Have I mentioned I don't like myspace? - nsummy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26As my friend put it, it is now a stalkers dream. I have to agree. You have so much information on there that can be easily mined. And for most users anyone at their school can see everything
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Note to self, do not add civdis24 as a friend...
- stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19In the last few weeks, facebook has put in a bunch of new features which make their site sooo much better, more intuitive and less time consuming.
- dmurray14, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17@heyyojay
I don't give a ***** about every minute detail in everyone's life, and I doubt any of my friends care about mine. It's stupid and invasive to have every action I make on the website publicly posted for everyone to see. Its one thing to have this info available, its another to track it in a list and present it for everyone to see. At the very least, make it optional for the profile owner to specify. - xmetal2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I don't like how when I write on a friend's wall or add a new friend, people that I don't neccesarily want to know about that not only know I did it, but can see what I've written.
- Sauwan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Damnit, I want an RSS feed with all this crap. I can't be bothered to check the main page!
- civdis24, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13The status update was unnecessary enough. This is just absurd. Ignoring any possibilities of stalking, it is completely unnecessary to see EVERY SINGLE ACTION or CHANGE of EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS. The worst part is showing comments. Leaving a comment to one specific friend should not become public knowledge to all of your other "friends".
- kevinrosesmom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10There's a big difference between having it available for them to see and it notifying everyone on your friends list that you did so. I'm still trying to make up my mind about the changes.
- Balthasar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I think they simply added too much to the feeds. I was a fan of recently updated profiles and that was fine. I don't really give a crap if some loser from highschool suddenly likes Catcher in the Rye. Oh and I don't want all 150 of my friends seeing what a just typed on someone's wall. If you type something to a facebook whore basically the whole school sees it on their homepage.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It doesn't put anything more than what's already on your frickin profile. I don't see why this is a stalker's dream.
If you're a stalker, you're going to find the info anyways...BY LOOKING AT THE VICTIM'S PAGE.
If you're worried about privacy on a social site, you need your head checked out. I don't know why people don't realize that when you post something on your facebook it's available to all of your friends anyways, they just have to do less work when you update now. - Freps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I work on a college campus that is utterly addicted to Facebook, and the overwhelming opinion is that it now sucks! I don't want to know all of my friends' business, nor do I want them tracking everything I'm doing. They should have the option to disable participation in the "Feeds" in the privacy section, but alas they do not.
- Frebis, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14Then message them, don't write on their wall, you dumb *****
- kevinrosesmom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I like the idea in general, but it's just way too overwhemling in it's current form. Do I want to know when one of my friends uploaded a new album? Absolutely. Do I want to know everytime someone writes on someone else's wall? Holy God No. Do I want to know when my friends friend new people? Do I want them to know when I friend new people? Not in the least. Do I want to know when someone's relationship status changes? ... well I might keep that one on.
- intoflatlines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree. The feature may be good for some people but I want to be able to turn it off. As of right now, I think the only thing that you can do is ***** around with privacy settings. They should just have a universal setting that will disable all the feeds for you or something.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9How is it stalker-esque... just don't become friends with stalkers and they can't see your information... duhhh..
- benjaminbr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Holy crap, I can imagine the dean just dishing out a couple mil to have access to the whole campus feed... scary.
- chix0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I liked it better when it was more..hmm...simple?
They are adding stuff that doesn't really have any use whatsoever. I hate it. Or maybe I just hate the fact that I only have 15 facebook "friends." Yeah loser. - ebs16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@cessax
School's don't pay Facebook to set up their own sites; in fact, universities have absolutely nothing to do with Facebook. Facebook runs on advertising and venture capital. - cakeeating, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Yeah, I say, way to go Facebook. I'm just waiting for some more feed customization (I don't care about all those people who are my "friends," after all, just the hot ones.) and maybe some realtime updating similar to digg spy. That would be a stalker's dream.
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5if they can see it now, then they could have seen it before the changes as well. These changes just make it easier for them see which of your friends' wall you've written on.
- MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, the thing I liked about Facebook was that it was simple and clean, while still linking up a ton of information for easy reference and searching.
They've now taken all that information and dumped every last detail of it in your face, when I really only wanted small bits of that information every so often. It's a mess. - SBee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The new profile layout is so ugly.
- richjoyce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@coheedcollapse:
It shows more information than you could have figured out (easily) previously. For example, when I confirm a friend invitation, it would be rather hard for a stalker in the old system to find out who my 178th friend is, but now it's explicity written out. Same thing goes for event confirmations/rejections, group additions, etc. The information is more accessible, which is what makes it a stalkers dream, not that the information now exists, since it already did, as you pointed out. - ajc30, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Tips:
If you don't want something from your profile to appear on feeds go to your own mini-feed and hit the x next to it. if you don't want mini feeds appearing click the triangle next to mini-feed. - stvnly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4facebook is seriously starting to piss me off. I don't need a goddamn newsfeed about my friends, I just want a short profile, a comment wall, and pictures. EVERYTHING ESLE IS ***** ANNOYING
- bowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's my idea. Take away all the minifeed stuff on the profile except the categories you may want to share with your school. Secondly, change it so that by default there are no friends in your news feed and then you can add people from your friends list by clicking a button "Add feed", This way you only see what you want to see. If you wanted to take it further, make it so that your friends have to approve the addition of a feed.
- lucask, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Facebook is however ridiculously slow atm due to all of the people frantically deleting all of their friend details with whom they have hooked up with and switching their friend settings in order to keep those regrettable Friday nights away from the front pages of their significant others.
- BlinderBomber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If they offered the ability to customize feeds easily (both what you see and what others allow you to see), I think it's a great new feature... otherwise it is a little creepy.
- brimg87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sure over time, people will stop caring and will still use facebook. People will just adapt.
- mackoid101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Quit whining and take action!
http://ku.facebook.com/help.php?tab=suggest - jayfarer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The fact that it took motivation and dedication to keep up with a person was a GOOD thing. It was an obstacle that discouraged the average person.
As for the excess details, we shouldn't have to learn how to make less changes. If people want to make trivial changes, and that's how they use the site, then they should be able to. Not be trained to not update their profile. - caresieb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I really LIKE the new facebook, I don't keep the company of creepy stalkers so I have no worries at all about the information. PLUS You can delete a piece of information if you do not wish for it to be on your profile
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7heyyojoy:
You have the option to set that, but it is not the default. - splammo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think this would work really well if you could turn features that you see and that others see on and off. For example I could turn off broadcasting whos wall I have written on and turn on updates on when my friends add pictures etc.
People don't like having things forced on them, but I think this could be amazing if you had the option to choose your information. - dmurray14, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11The new facebook sucks. It is so stalker-esque and everyone I've talked to hates it. Bad move. It is a huge ***** of unnecessary information.
- dragazis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't necessarily think the idea(s) behind these new features are bad, I just think they are poorly designed and implemented.
- mv10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hate it
Stalking 101 - aliceinreality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is a really good solution to the enormous, ridiculous annoyance that IS newsfeed. i like the idea, but it makes me feel obsessive to see EVERY SINGLE THING someone does. i mean, why would anyone want to do that that WASN'T a stalker?
but maybe choosing your feed items and the people you receive feeds from would be okay. - nemik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All you guys who wanted RSS, I wrote up a little script last night that does just that: transforms the News Feed to RSS.
PHP and all the source is there: http://blog.nemik.net/2006/09/06/facebook-news-feed-rss/
Tell me how much it sucks! - bayonetblaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that would ROCK. Facebook stuff on the RSS feed scroller for firefox would be a little easier to handle
- ceoandpresident, on 10/12/2007, -5/+61) Stalk "friends" on facebook
2) ???
3) Profit!!! - cessax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i hate this new "news feed" feature...i REALLY don't want to know what the hell everyone is doing on facebook at every given moment. its really annoying and there is no setting to turn it off. if someone knows how to turnout this news feed bs, please let me know, thanks.
ps - i'm just reading comments about boycotting the feature...thank heavens. - harrisonpowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yea iz dum.
This redesign is so *****, I'm just deleting all my actions from the history list. Take that stalkers!! - SLIPSTR3AM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I came here to see if this issue had hit the front page of DIGG, and I was right. I was originally alerted to this by someone in my friends sent me an invite to a group boycotting the news feed. Then I come to find there are literally dozens of these groups that have formed in mere hours, including thousands of members. Civil war has broken out on Facebook. It's awesome to see people in numbers making an impact for something they believe in [or don't believe in]. By the way, I think it's pretty disturbing and did not activate on my own alumni account. If I want info on someone, I can check myself, not every single move a pseudo-acquaintence makes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally, I like the "facelift" but most people on my campus don't like it either.
- bikeidaho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's called "Facestalking".
- lightn899, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like you can hide feeds that you don't want other people to see. When logged in on your profile page you can click the X to hide them. This makes me feel better, I could care less about seeing everyone else's comments, but if I make a sarcastic comment that makes me sound like a jerk-off I'd rather not everyone see it.
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