Posts made in July, 2009

Facebook / Twitter

Posted by dan on Jul 28, 2009 in Computers | 3 comments

Every revision that is made of Facebooks UI, usually results in some crazy uprising of it’s user base. This will then formulate into a group being created, something along the lines of ‘Abandon Facebook’, ‘If 1,000,000,000,000 people join they will put facebook back to the way it was’ etc…

The last change was to put emphasis on what people are doing, by making status updates the primary focus. This change made facebook pretty comparable to twitter in that you’re presented with snippets of what people are doing and what they’re up to. This cause an outcry and people instantly facebook-twittered that if they wanted to use twitter they would do etc…

The good thing about twitter is that it’s made up of people that I actually want to listen to, whereas I joined the trend of adding people on facebook that I went to school with or may have been in the same room at some point in my life. Every time I log into facebook these days i’ve got pages and pages of illegible drivel to ignore whilst trying to discern if there is anything worth reading.

So given that they all complained about the changes, they seem to have embraced this ‘micro blogging’ methodology without realizing. Shame I have to continually ignore it all the time.