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Facebook? More Like FAILbook...
- Thread starter Thunderscreech
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My main problem with facebook now is that my ENTIRE FAMILY is on it. I can't write anything without my parents, cousins, etc. reading it and/or making embarrassing comments. For example, the other night I had a late night out with friends and I wrote about it, and my dad decides to leave a comment saying something like "You shouldn't be out that late" and basically tries to chastise me over the internet. Ridiculous.
I know I would end up hurting a lot of feelings if I just deleted them, so I may have to give facebook up. Yet another facet of life where I'm no longer allowed privacy from my snooping family.
So block them and tell them you deleted it. Or just remove them and create a new one.
The good thing is that with facebook's track record, this new layout will not last long.
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What annoys me most is that i'm reading everything now. I don't want to see everyones wall posts and everyones status change every 30 mins and still see their old one.
I preferred it saying what was going on where, but not actually showing it.
there are more important things to worry about in life... like apple's media release on tues 
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i used to spend time on facebook. when it died for me is when you no longer had to have a student email to get an account. now i have elders in my church trying to send me invites for games and mess. total waste of time. my wife now has an account. she wanted to know about someone she's not friends with. i logged on to see and i had like 25 friend requests. i don't spend any time on there anymore. it was great when it was different. now it's just a myspace/twitter wanna-be.
Not if you read my previous post
The only part I don't like is that they kicked out the front page's visual hierarchy. I click on a profile, and it's all neat with little tabs and enough white space to breathe.
But on my home page, I see a tiny tiny picture of who I am, then a big button at the left, then a bigger bubble asking me to express myself, then WHAMMO full-size semi-relevant "chosen news" with an ad on the top. All at the freaking same height. Amidst all of this is a "welcome, L-A" I don't really see until I get used to the rest.
Just putting the rightmost "chosen news" and the buttons on the right a little lower, starting where the "main" news start, would have pretty much cleared the problem.
Here's a super-quick mock-up to show what I mean.
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I don't like the new layout either. The first layout was good, the second I thought was better but this one is kinda confusing. That and there are too many apps which are annoying since I get like 10 requests a day to join one.
So.....they changed their sex after relations with you then?
On topic though: I like facebook as a tool to stay in touch with friends, old coworkers, extended family etc. I just don't accept invites to play the damn games or all that crap.
I noticed this yesterday when I logged in....And some of the content on MY home page was a guy having a wall-to-wall fight with HIS girlfriend. I don't need that BS on my page.
Like I care about every single minute of everyone else's day....I mean, really, did they need to include everyone else's drama on my page? Now, if friends from work drop by and read it they see a heated, one sided conversation arguing about if a local band sucks or not and a one sided conversation of a guy arguing with his girlfriend using all manner of expletives.
Stupid.
There's someone on TB here with insomnia, I forgot his name, but basically he's updating his status every 2 hours to say he can't sleep
Sorry buddy, but I blocked your newsfeed
And yes the new design sucks.
Ívar Þórólfsson;7122489 said:So.....they changed their sex after relations with you then?
Or is he saying they went from chicks to "Mother Hens"....
The only really good thing about Facebook that I have found is checking out new bands as you guys post them.
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I just signed up a few days ago, so I had less than a day's worth of experience with the "old" design.........right now I'm just learning the current version, since I don't have the previous version to compare to, I'm OK with the current one.
See I find the only good thing about Myspace is the bands thing, I never really dug the facebook version. Especially seeing bands have to pay (or at least had to, I dunno now).
+1.
Lots of stalkers/exes that keep inviting me and asking people I know if I'm on there yet.
I never understood the "poke" feature either.
Yeah, seriously. If I poked all the chicks that poked me there'd be a lot of little Maki's walking around and I'd be in jail.
