Not every individual in the world is a petty, self-aggrandizing, self-conscience teenager. Some people work for their accomplishments and are too busy to be bothered by such trifling immaturity. Some people are humble.

Unlike the "I'm CEO Bitch" who thinks his website is the only way "Share information seamlessly". Congrats for discovering the internet. At this rate, even with VC, by the time you've learned enough to get by, you'll be bankrupt and forgotten.

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As if scheduling books and chain mail haven't existed for the past century. Wow, why don't you go event RSVP?

Most facebook groups amount to little or no effort apart from clicking "Join". Perhaps 10% of them will make a half-hearted wallpost, then resume refreshing their profile (Not their news feed, people care about themselves more).

Worse yet, the groups suck, and the beliefs of college kids are usually 1.) Very opinionated 2.) Extremely naïve 3.) Self-conscience and paranoid as hell.

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Yes.

Personal = 90% Acquaintances who hardly know you

Business = Nobodies, wannabes, fakes, frauds

Networking = Loose connections which amount to nothing

Tool = E-mail and cell phone

If you want to get a job, stick to working hard and making a CV. Wallposts and favorite music aren't going to get you on the board of Yahoo.

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Of course it's not a democracy. No business is. But most businesses that disregard their customers find that people still vote with their feet (or, in this case, their mouse). Facebook now has an effective (if by no means permanent) monopoly on a universal-scale social network. (And we know that the value of a social network increases exponentially with its size.) People can't easily choose to leave, though it seems they will certainly spend less time on the site, since the most viral and interactive elements have been removed.

To say the problem is that users don't want to take the time to learn the new interface is, excuse the expression, retarded. We all know how to use it. We just don't like it, because the home page now spews a real-time stream of trivia from people of marginal interest, skewed toward the attention hogs rather than people we care about the most (as on the old home page).

See the quote in the NYT story from Cox, who "envisions users announcing where they are going to lunch as they leave their computers so friends can see the updates and join them." Gah! DO NOT WANT. I have a controlled list of friends on Foursquare with whom I may share location info, but I sure don't want all my FB friends showing up at my lunch and I don't think many people do

The Twitter-lusting FB team believes we want up-to-the-minute rather than relevant info, and lost sight of the fact that the filtering/curating function of the FB homepage was the key to its appeal. The old interface surfaced items, often days old, of interest; under the new interface, that information is lost.

But by arguing that people would rather bitch rather than educating themselves when that's completely beside the point -- it seems like you've just done that yourself.

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Seriously. People made a petition and "signed" it - a process that involves about 10 seconds of clicking. If people don't like it, what are they going to do? Flee Facebook? Yeah right. For what? MySpace? Twitter? Yeah right.

Someone should send Zuckerberg a nice wheel of Camembert for that surrender-monkey to chow down on.

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This is why every website like this eventually dies down. The wealthy ones:

1.) Sell out

2.) Are nescessary market nexus (Amazon, eBay)

(Widgets market nexus)

Hasn't history tought these cocky tards anything?

Us humans believe that "Here and now" will last forever. Not true. Never true.

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All I know, is before I didn't have to "filter" my content. I saw links. I saw videos. I saw uploaded or tagged photos. I saw who became friends with whom. I saw the result to the bullshit quizzes only if someone decided to publish that result. That's what I want back.

Also, next friend of mine that takes some quiz like "what kind of shoes are you" or "what pooh character are you" is getting defriended. This is on you Zuckerberg, because before I DID NOT SEE ALL THAT SHIT!

Hating it.

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My grief with the site is the same as everyone else, and yes, my work productivity has increased only sightly, because now instead of spending mass amounts of time on FB I now come on here and bitch about the changes.

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That is, to me, is one of the best things about FB (and if you don't want to reacquaint yourself with someone, it's easy to ignore the friend request or block them, so no harm done.)

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You think they actually know anything about usability?

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A classic "if it ain't broke.." .. but unlike New Coke, I don't think this was a publicity stunt at all.. I'm sure Zuckerberg is scratching his head..

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