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SeaBassTian
03/13/09

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I have spent the last half hour just staring at my screen with my jaw wide open trying to crack the new FB code! I consider myself to be relatively tech-savvy, but how do I post a link on my wall without shoving it on my home page?
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krismry
03/13/09

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"We're just a wrecking crew/bored boyz with nothin to do," that just about says it all for me, just another social tendency for social engineering, a project of make work for underemployed intel analysts, the dear old Darpa internet...what did we expect, anyway?
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DeadliestSin
03/13/09

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I joined twitter a few weeks ago, but have already abandoned it because of the annoying layout, so I'm a bit peeved that facebook now looks like it.
Thinking about abandoning facebook too now, it's more complicated than I care for.
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Steverino Begins
03/13/09

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Not a fan of the "What's on your mind?" format. Also, when you click on your Profile, it just says "Write Something," which might be the most panic-inducing imperative sentence ever (next to "Christina, get me the axe").
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Phyllis Nefler
03/13/09

@Steverino Begins: It's like when you find out someone is fluent in another language and you're like SAY SOMETHING and they back away a little scared.
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Schm
03/13/09

@Steverino Begins: One of my friends just wrote "What's on YOUR mind, dickhead?" as their status update.
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Phyllis Nefler
03/13/09

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They should have gone the Delilah route and just asked Facebookers "What's on your heart tonight?"
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friend_of_a_friend
03/13/09

@Phyllis Nefler: You know what's on my heart tonight? A sentiment that can only be expressed via a Bryan Adams song.
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Phyllis Nefler
03/13/09

@friend_of_a_friend: Yeah see I was really feeling some I Can't Make You Love Me (If You Don't) myself.
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Accidental Billionaire
03/13/09

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Mundanities. Exactly.

Truth is, the only profiles you view are:

1.) Love interests (Stalking) She thinks you're wierd and pities you. You're a pathetic sperm.

2.) Your own profile (Narcissism) Your music sucks. Movies are shit.

and perhaps

3.) Shaky social relationships (Fear, Paranoia) You shouldn't be friends with them to begin with.

I know it feels a little left out to not use facebook at certain ages, in certain areas of upper middle strata. But in reality, if that person uses facebook, are they even worth the time? They are petty, narcissistic stalkers. You're a unique, smart individual.

Honestly, having a bind? Do you feel stressed by your social life? Move. Make new friends. Believe it or not the world doesn't revolve around you and your decaying social networks.
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badasscat
03/13/09

@noodleman: That's the idea, they're intentionally de-emphasizing apps. They were a big mistake and Zuckerberg knows it. Law of unintended consequences and whatnot.

I don't generally get attached to the way things are presented on social networking sites, but two things I am against are clutter and things that don't work. And the new Facebook suffers from both of those. I expect the things that don't work (like the "real-time" stream, which isn't) will be fixed at some point, but the clutter probably won't be since some of it is intentional. Like the graphical ads that now appear in the top right. It's a slippery slope when you add these one or two newly annoying elements in every iteration... you think "what, it's just a little tiny ad", but do that ten times, and suddenly you've got ten little tiny ads cluttering up a page. That's the route Facebook is going down.
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britneyspearstears
03/13/09

@Widget Economist: Your Facebook profile is not representative of the person you actually are (what is?) but the person you strive to be.
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fuzzywhat
03/13/09

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Still waiting for mine to switch over, I was one of the first last time, I wonder if they reversed the order, whatever it is? It's interesting to see the complaining statuses, and the people who haven't changed responding not knowing wtf they're talking about.
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fuzzywhat
03/13/09

@fuzzywhat: Just changed over, I don't see what the big deal is.
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DeadliestSin
03/13/09

@fuzzywhat: I think this is the case, as my facebook was changed last time by them because I didn't do it myself, and now mine has changed before all my friends has.
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Mediokra
03/13/09

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I've never been one of those people who has a panic attack every time there's a layout change and then joins a "1,000,000 Strong Against The New Facebook" group, or whatever. But I am really not enjoying how Facebook is morphing into a glorified Twitter.
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