Facebook posts so pathetic they belong in this thread!!!

[DaddyTorgo]

What a fragging trainwreck.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

This.

What is Facebook's fascination with "Top Stories"? I think most people want to see "Most Recent".

Advertisers will be able to pay them for "Top Stories" positioning?

[JediKooter]

This pretty much sums up what Facebook is doing. All the information is coming from one place (friends and entities liked. I know it's two, but, they both do only one thing...post things), yet they feel the need to break the info up into categories for some reason.

[stevew]

These changes probably are good for someone who has 500+ friends. For people like me that don't friend that many people, these changes are dumb.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

What is Facebook's fascination with "Top Stories"? I think most people want to see "Most Recent".

Only explanation seems to be that the Zuckhead in charge is a control freak who thinks he knows better than you which posts you really want to see.

The difference between the Boy Scouts & Facebook seems to be that the Scouts have adult leadership.

[Pumpy Tudors]

The problem with you people is that you think you know yourself better than Facebook does. You're wrong. Facebook knows what you want to see. Facebook is telling you what you want to see. Stop fighting Facebook and let Facebook have its way. Facebook knows.

It knows.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by stevew

These changes probably are good for someone who has 500+ friends. For people like me that don't friend that many people, these changes are dumb.

This right here makes the most sense.

However, since I'm not a 'friend' collector and have less than 200 friends on my list and even fewer groups, all I see is the most recent post repeated in the window on the right. Thank you Office of Redundancy.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

First thing I thought of

SI

[Ksyrup]

I'm not exactly sure what all the shit is that FB annoucned today, but from the gist of it, I might be deleting my account.

[JediKooter]

I find the lack of screen shots disturbing.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I'm not exactly sure what all the shit is that FB annoucned today, but from the gist of it, I might be deleting my account.

hmm?

Okay - I just looked and that is wayyy too much oversharing.

So say I approve the HBO app because I want to interact with Game of Thrones stuff. And say several months go by and then i come back and I watch some racy R-rated movie, or worse, something like CineMax (which is owned by HBO) is folded into the HBO app...now I watch some skinemax movie or something...that's going to show up in my newsfeed for the world to see.

Thank you, fuck no Zuckerberg. Jeezus. What's so hard about letting people control what they share? It's not difficult for people to do - why keep making all the choices for them. Fuck you.

[Ksyrup]

They're basically changing FB into an app-driven, privacy-free zone where everything you do is communicated to your friends (and maybe others, who knows) without you having to do anything. I really have no interest in reading a bunch of commercials for companies dressed up in automatic feed updates on my phone that say, "Jason just watched Episode 3, Season 2 of The Wire on Netflix Streaming!" or "Kelly is listening to Backstreet Boys Radio on Pandora!"

[JediKooter]

Ugh...

When does the "Death of Facebook as we know it" thread start?

Or is that the Google+ thread?

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

They're basically changing FB into an app-driven, privacy-free zone where everything you do is communicated to your friends (and maybe others, who knows) without you having to do anything. I really have no interest in reading a bunch of commercials for companies dressed up in automatic feed updates on my phone that say, "Jason just watched Episode 3, Season 2 of The Wire on Netflix Streaming!" or "Kelly is listening to Backstreet Boys Radio on Pandora!"

Yeah - seriously no. No interest from me either.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Ugh...

When does the "Death of Facebook as we know it" thread start?

Or is that the Google+ thread?

Go ahead and start it up!

[Ksyrup]

I could be wrong, but from what I've read about the press conference, that's what I took from it.

[Ksyrup]

Facebook users now can see what their friends are doing "in real time," even if those friends don't click a button to publish their activities to Facebook. By approving certain music apps, a Facebook user would allow the site to post every song he or she listened to on music-streaming service Spotify, for example.

Zuckerberg called this "real-time serendipity."

This is "the most significant change we've made to our platform since we launched it four years ago," Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said.

To promote this real-time sharing, Facebook announced partnerships with Yahoo News, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, foodie social network Foodspotting and others. These companies have created Facebook apps that can post all of a person's activities on Facebook's new "ticker," which appears in the top right-hand corner of the site's homepage.

Zuckerberg called this a "frictionless experience," since users don't have to click a button to publish each of their activities. If they watch a TV show on Netflix, and they've approved Netflix's app, that information would just automatically appear on Facebook.

The changes will no doubt raise some privacy concerns, and some Internet users who were watching the presentation reacted negatively.

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[Ksyrup]

So basically, take Farmville status updates and multiply them by a million for everything from music to movies to TV to restaurants to news items you read to your location. Now, I guess people have to agree to the apps for this to happen, but even if it's just a few people, I'm getting a bunch of information I don't want.

[bhlloy]

I generally try to stay relatively calm when it comes to FB (after all it's free and useful) but it doesn't sound like I'll have any use or interest in what they are trying to become. Guess I'll be giving G+ another shot.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by stevew

These changes probably are good for someone who has 500+ friends. For people like me that don't friend that many people, these changes are dumb.

I have 552 friends. I want to see Most Recent. How does it know who the Top people are? What if one my friends I haven't spoken to in a while is going through something?

[Ksyrup]

FB has decided you don't care.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

So basically, take Farmville status updates and multiply them by a million for everything from music to movies to TV to restaurants to news items you read to your location. Now, I guess people have to agree to the apps for this to happen, but even if it's just a few people, I'm getting a bunch of information I don't want.

I assume that's why they did this seperation with the right side being a constantly flowing ticket... that's where all of this will go.

Btw, handy chart for deciphering the new Facebook:

http://p.twimg.com/AZ2EZ0YCMAA8Dko.jpg:large

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

I assume that's why they did this seperation with the right side being a constantly flowing ticket... that's where all of this will go.

So as long as we've been smart enough to remove the stupid fucking ticker from view, we should be gtg. Well that & making sure not to approve any of the apps that are feeding it.

[MacroGuru]

So the announcement is why I saw an increase of G+ invites today...

[terpkristin]

You know, I don't mind that FB is trying to give people options for how they see stuff and interact.

What I do mind is it changing stuff. I'd rather them say, "we're going to leave it alone and let you do your own filtering to decide how you want to see what you want to see, but here are all these options you have!" I'm not a fan of FB's algorithm deciding what is important to me.

But I'll still keeping FB, just won't be as useful (?) as it was before.

/tk

[sterlingice]

And the great thing in my world- apparently adblock has blocked whatever silly news ticket everyone is up in arms about so in this thread I get to be that a-hole "Use Firefox" guy

SI

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Big image showing what the new Facebook profile page will look like:

Spoiler

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Big image showing what the new Facebook profile page will look like:

The one that has people the most up in arms is the Nike thing, which pretty much hangs a "here's my route in case you'd like to kidnap me & dump the body somewhere later" around your neck.

Well, that's the biggest gripe on the specific apps I've seen. The larger problem is that all of this apparently isn't just on your profile, it's going to be dumped streaming into that godforsaken ticker.

[bronconick]

What earthly reason would anyone sign up for apps that track all that shit? Seems like one of those self inflicted wounds.

[MJ4H]

Originally Posted by bronconick

What earthly reason would anyone sign up for apps that track all that shit? Seems like one of those self inflicted wounds.

this. just don't give these stupid useless apps permission.

[Neon_Chaos]

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

From a design standpoint, I think it's beautiful.

[britrock88]

But good design aside, it will inundate us with so much information as to become essentially meaningless.

BTW, no more wall posts?

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

this. just don't give these stupid useless apps permission.

You have no control over whether your friends sign up for all of this hit and it streams into your status updates like all the games shit.

[MJ4H]

They are going to take away my ability to block apps?

[Ksyrup]

You can keep yourself from streaming shit onto other people's feeds, but in order to keep other people's shit from your feed, I assume you'll have to manually block all of that shit. That's a pretty terrible design, when you force people to have to actively disengage from the main purpose of your "new and improved" website.

[bronconick]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

You can keep yourself from streaming shit onto other people's feeds, but in order to keep other people's shit from your feed, I assume you'll have to manually block all of that shit. That's a pretty terrible design, when you force people to have to actively disengage from the main purpose of your "new and improved" website.

Can I still click on the first farmville update I see, click the list where it gives me the option to hide just the post, or all farmville, or all person X?

*checks* Yep. Don't see the problem. Goodbye all Farmville.

[MJ4H]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

You can keep yourself from streaming shit onto other people's feeds, but in order to keep other people's shit from your feed, I assume you'll have to manually block all of that shit. That's a pretty terrible design, when you force people to have to actively disengage from the main purpose of your "new and improved" website.

FWIW that's the way it already is.

[Ksyrup]

My understanding is that it's going to explode into tie-in apps for nearly everything you do that's connected to the net, so we get a real-time update when you're watching TV, listening to music, out to eat, as you go place to place, etc. At least, if you agree to all of that (which no doubt a portion of everyopne's friends will do).

[ISiddiqui]

I have the new Timeline profile as well. I think it's quite nice, but not all the intregrated well into the homepage.

[bhlloy]

So my "tracker" feed is a list of everything some guy I played soccer with for a couple of years is listening to on rdio for the last 5 hours. That's awesome. No really, very useful and exactly why I signed up to use facebook in the first place.

I wonder if he even knows at this point that all his friends can see the shitty music he's listening to.

[Julio Riddols]

I find it pretty easy to remove posts by these other apps that I don't want to see. Not sure what the problem is.

[stevew]

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together. So the doctor said: 'OK and what do you want me to do?' She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.' The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.' She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child! 'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.' The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same! If you agree, please SHARE. Together we can help save precious lives! "Love says I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person. Abortion says I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself..." Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for the good of sinners! Thats perfect love!

unfriend.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by stevew

unfriend.

seriously.

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Easy way to bother some of the people that get mentioned in this thread.

[bronconick]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Easy way to bother some of the people that get mentioned in this thread.

Right-clicked, and saved.

[DanGarion]

Already posted my first Facebook Gold picture! It's awesome having a selective account now that I paid money!

[JediKooter]

From a mom that doesn't use birth control...

"What's a mom worth?According to one report, $138,095 a year, working an average of over 52 hours overtime-only by the grace of our Mighty God has he equipped me to be a Mom,housekeeper, teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager,CEO and psychologist."

[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

From a mom that doesn't use birth control...

"What's a mom worth?According to one report, $138,095 a year, working an average of over 52 hours overtime-only by the grace of our Mighty God has he equipped me to be a Mom,housekeeper, teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager,CEO and psychologist."

I had a similar one over the weekend, something about a guy who prays and asks to be his wife (stay at home mom) for a day so he can take it easy.

Then goes through the eleventy-billion things he (she) has to do that one day, and asks to be changed back to go to his less demanding job.

It referenced doing laundry, vacuuming, scrubbing floors, etc etc each day. I said "If you have to continually do the same thing daily, you are probably doing it wrong" and got a "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!!"