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The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Wendy_Kroy
03/19/09

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I hate that it doesn't seem to let you edit down the amount of status updates you receive from annoying people who post 3 times a day. Before, you could just hit "see less about X" - now the only way to clean up your page is to de-friend them, which is kinda harsh.
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automata
03/19/09

@Wendy_Kroy: Also, there is still an "X" in the upper right corner. try that.
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Wendy_Kroy
03/19/09

@automata: Got it. So maybe my gripe stems as much from my computer aptitude than the redesign. But I'll still jump on the anti-redesign bandwagon anyway, because I am inherently cranky and enjoy having things to complain about.
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Wendy_Kroy
03/19/09

@Wendy_Kroy: I meant "as much from my lack of computer aptitude as the redesign." Yeesh. I guess spending all your time online DOES make you illiterate.
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ChanRasit
03/19/09

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People say this furor will die down in a week, but users really hate it. It took away all the best features and replaced it with the worst.
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Schm
03/19/09

@ChanRasit: After getting used to the last change and actually getting more addicted, I wasn't against them changing it up again. But I have been trying to give this one a chance, and I just don't want to use it. Maybe now I'll check it like twice a day, or just log on when I see an email notification. All the addictive gossipy little things I loved in the live feed are completely gone, so it's of no use to my procrastination anymore.
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BxgrlJeri
03/19/09

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The whole navel gazing thing is a bit overdone.
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i'm a bottle
03/19/09

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The worst thing about the redesign is people's quiz results showing up constantly in the news feed because people have nothing better to do than to take pointless quizzes. I think earlier there was a quota of how many of these useless results would be shown on the main news feed page.
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automata
03/19/09

@i'm a bottle: Try hitting the "X" in the upper right. You won't see posts like that any more.
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HeyThatsMyBike
03/19/09

@automata: See, but that makes me not see things about that person anymore, not that kind of message. So while I may not care that my high school crush should live in Australia, I still very much want to see his cute ass tagged in random pictures.
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i'm a bottle
03/19/09

@HeyThatsMyBike: @automata: Yes, those quiz results will continue to silently mock me. Clicking the "X" is throwing the girl I secretly like out with the proverbial bathwater. The question is whether I would want to be with someone who obviously enjoys completing inane and vaguely exhibitionistic Facebook quizzes.
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barb95
03/20/09

@i'm a bottle: I'm New York City! And which Cullen am I?
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i'm a bottle
03/20/09

@barb95: I don't know whether to be ashamed or proud of the fact that I had to Google "Cullen."
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