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OMG! Ponies!
03/25/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
The only proper response to the hubbub is "What are you going to do about it?"

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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Accidental Billionaire
03/25/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
Facebook is not a plumber or a electrician. I don't need this utility. A new and cooler fad will be around 2 yrs from now.

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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Loki_Monster
03/25/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
And where's the content filter for bullshit quizzes? Yeah, yeah, that's the whole point of the new filters for application data that are coming in the next few weeks. Blah, blah, blah.

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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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
03/25/09

@Loki_Monster: you should try the 'would you throw down in chuck e cheese' quiz
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Wrapitup
03/24/09

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What would happen if Google's design-by-user-stats VP Marissa Mayer were to handle Facebook's design?
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DeadliestSin
03/24/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
How'd you get ahold of my cat and what are you doing it her!?!?!

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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VoxPopuli
03/24/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
So...still no way to see in your feed when people add friends? That's the best way for people to randomly find and be found by people they haven't seen in years.

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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Schm
03/24/09

@VoxPopuli: Seconded. That was like the best part.
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Charlotte Rae's Web
03/24/09

@VoxPopuli: Me three. I've found far more people I might know with seeing who my friends added than the 'Who you might know' section which pulls up ridiculous matches while ignoring obvious ones.
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Schm
03/25/09

@Charlotte Rae's Web: That thing is always so awkward. Ninety percent of the time, you aren't friends with them for a reason.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
03/25/09

@VoxPopuli: you could always try trolling your friends friends lists, as I do ;o)
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Eleiren Bowen
03/25/09

@VoxPopuli: Also apparently no way to tell when someone drops off your friends list. An ex of mine finally got a clue and removed me from his friends, but I have no idea when to celebrate the blessed event because there was no update! Nice, right?
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squinko
03/25/09

@Eleiren Bowen: I don't think Facebook has ever let people know when they've been de-friended. That's why they had such a problem with Burger King's "Whopper Sacrifice" app, since it told people that their friends dropped them for the burger.
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TableNine
03/25/09

@squinko: I miss that promotion-- nothing like telling a random acquaintance that their "friendship" isn't worth 1/10th of a burger to you.
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Clarence Rosario
03/24/09

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Um, guys? They don't yet know how to make money.

You think they actually know anything about usability?
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lobstr
03/24/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
Never in my fifteen years of UI hustling have I ever seen such a horribly laid-out site, especially on one where people (including lots of oldes, lulz) have gotten accustomed to certain basic items where they should expect them. All of a sudden, basic tenets of the site (i.e., GROUPS, EVENTS) are not just shuffled onscreen, they're just plain missing.. as in, where the hell did they go? Upon searching forums that discuss this stuff, people have suggested going to this menu and hitting that tab and looking near the bottom.. so unnecessary.

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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CaptainFantastic
03/25/09

@lobstr: I just joined about a week ago, and it is laid out horribly. It's not intuitive. Links show up and disappear. Ugh.
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Lazy Susan
03/20/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
I left MySpace when Uncle Rupert bought them. I stopped fussing with Facebook after the press started accessing photographs to add to news stories. I'll give Twitter a shot but frankly - I feel safest here at Snark Central where the beer is cold and nobody knows my name.
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BxgrlJeri
03/20/09

@Lazy Susan: NORM!
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BxgrlJeri
03/19/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
People who are upset over changes to Facebook need to get a life. In real life YOU actually get to control the features. Imagine that! What will they think of next?
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VoxPopuli
03/19/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
So is there a way to see when people add friends? Because that was how I found some people I haven't seen in years and how people have found me too.
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VoxPopuli
03/19/09

@VoxPopuli: Other than going to each friend's profile, I mean.
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Accidental Billionaire
03/19/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
Personally, if you're on facebook, you're a fucking loser.

Day by day, this is proven. Facebook users perceive themselves as a "Clean" and "Elitist" site. Well, now we all know why the world isn't run by juvenile college shits in glorified chatrooms.

I haven't used facebook in 2 years. If this is what matters to you, you live a dismal life. Yes, you have a voice, but no one cares.
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Accidental Billionaire
03/19/09

@Widget Economist: To clarify, I mean you're a loser by virtue of DNA and natural selection. Not just you being on facebook. Facebook is the "telling point" of your genetic abnormality.

Also it's your bad personality and poor music taste.
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ristretto_dreams
03/19/09

@Widget Economist:

Wow. Bitter much?

Not to mention out of touch. "Well, now we all know why the world isn't run by juvenile college shits in glorified chatrooms" Except for the whole social networking (and specifically some of the people behind facebook) being a HUGE factor in Obama getting elected, the majority of media people being on facebook and/or twitter, major companies getting behind facebook as a means of connecting with consumers, etc. etc.

You being too old/bitter/pretentious to effectively use facebook doesn't mean that it's not a revolutionary social tool that is becoming an ever more integral part of life.
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Accidental Billionaire
03/19/09

@ristretto_dreams:

No. You are a revolutionary social tool.
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mattymcd
03/19/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
Um...Gawker? Mocking Facebook? For copying Twitter? Does anyone else find this hilarious, yet sad?
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mattymcd
03/19/09

@mattymcd: Let me be more specific. Gawker: I love you, you're perfect, don't ever change. But let's be serious, the last redesign of this very site pushed it straight into some serious twitter territory. And I'm not complaining about, in fact I like it, but let's leave the kettle out of this, OK pot?
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Owen Thomas
03/20/09

@mattymcd: I think you need to refresh your understanding of my position on the matter.
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fuzzywhat
03/19/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
I hope they're listening...the other day they added your own profile pic to EVERY comment box in the feed, people freaked out and by the end of the day they were gone. It gives me a slight ray of hope.
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Schm
03/19/09

@fuzzywhat: I still see my picture next to every photo comment box. It freaks me out because at first glance it looks like I wrote something there.
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Cassi Haggard
03/19/09

In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
I would say the problem is that they took away some of the sorting control. They already had a live feed under one of the tabs in their previous system. Before I had tabs where I could look at just status feeds, or just photos, etc etc. That worked. Why don't they find a happy medium between the old facebook and the new facebook? Rounded corners & design changes to don't bother me, but the loss of some features that I used all the time plus the difficulty of finding certain features makes this a lose. There are some nice new features with the new facebook, keep those, but give me my tabs and everything back.
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automata
03/19/09

@Cassi Haggard: Try creating friend groups as a form of filtering. I find that a great way to review what my close friends, coworkers, and other are doing, all in a batch, and quickly.
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DeadliestSin
03/19/09

@automata: I really liked the tabs, I think that's the most annoying thing to me.
And the HUGE font.Ick.
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