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Wow @ this thread...

mcminty wrote:

ozghost wrote:

its shit...privacy has gone out the door a bit more...

now i can see whoever my friends become friends with...stupid...

This.

This information has been available forever. Sure, it wasn't surfaced to YOUR news feed, but you've always been able to go to a person's profile and see the friend'ing info.

TheDonkey wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

TheDonkey wrote:

Although the Highlights thing on the old site was pretty shitty/broken, I very much like the separation it gave between photo's/notes and status's/news.

Can't you do most of this now?

Highlights are gone in the newest update.

And you can't get "More from"/ "Less from" you can only eliminate completely.

Firstly, the highlights before weren't that cleanly separated. Sure, they showed only a subset, but that subset did also show up in the feed. "Hightlights", for those who still haven't figured it out, IS the "News Feed" now. They tweaked it a bit, but it's the same concept.

I can't figure out why this is apparently so immensely difficult for people to grasp:

News Feed -- Highlights from recently
Live Feed -- everything without exception

Granted, their launch was shit: the live updater is failing and the news feed it out of chronological order, but I am sure they'll have that fixed in a few days.

Also, you can still chose to treat some users more importantly than others -- it's in the "Edit Options" at the bottom of the feed.

DesertFox- wrote:

Still, it's not like they NEEDED two modes anyway. The previous version basically was a news/live feed in itself that would get updated when people did shit.

=NHB=Shadow wrote:

It doesn't really bother me, i'm only on it like 10 minutes a day to see whats new, talk a bit, PLAY FARMVILLE LOL!!!!, but in a way its kind of ghetto, I rather see all the feed in 1 page instead of having to click news/live

I think the two feeds make perfect sense. The news feed for people like Shadow who only check once a day or less, and the live feed for people who incessantly live vicariously through the updates of others.

p.s.

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Hitler had a lot of followers. Just sayin', y'know.

I hereby invoke Godwin's Law and you may no longer post to this thread.

I think the new facebook is okay, I mean some hate it but in a way it's kind of cool

tazz. wrote:

chuyskywalker wrote:

This information has been available forever. Sure, it wasn't surfaced to YOUR news feed, but you've always been able to go to a person's profile and see the friend'ing info.

Sure we COULD go and find out who became friends with who..... but it wasn't the SIZE OF A STATUS.... it was small and out of the way. ... I'm not saying to get rid of it... but please, for the LOVE OF GOD, add the option to make a different sub group the default:

I wasn't arguing the design, but against the fact that FB has some how started a massive privacy invasion because of this design change.

I am, however, on board with most people's base assumption here that there's a seriously lack of control in the information presented.

Most people's gripes would be covered if you could:

* Whitelist or Blacklist applications and types of updates in your feeds
* Exercise exceptions for either cases by friend or application
* Create different feeds with custom setups of the above

etc. IE: implement more granular control than the two current modes of "live deluge" and "who-knows-how-it-is-ranked news feed".

The Sheriff wrote:

You can choose to hide peoples/applications from showing up in your news feed.

Namely: All those fucking quizes

chuyskywalker wrote:

tazz. wrote:

chuyskywalker wrote:

This information has been available forever. Sure, it wasn't surfaced to YOUR news feed, but you've always been able to go to a person's profile and see the friend'ing info.

Sure we COULD go and find out who became friends with who..... but it wasn't the SIZE OF A STATUS.... it was small and out of the way. ... I'm not saying to get rid of it... but please, for the LOVE OF GOD, add the option to make a different sub group the default:

I wasn't arguing the design, but against the fact that FB has some how started a massive privacy invasion because of this design change.

I am, however, on board with most people's base assumption here that there's a seriously lack of control in the information presented.

Most people's gripes would be covered if you could:

* Whitelist or Blacklist applications and types of updates in your feeds
* Exercise exceptions for either cases by friend or application
* Create different feeds with custom setups of the above

etc. IE: implement more granular control than the two current modes of "live deluge" and "who-knows-how-it-is-ranked news feed".

You can hide your stuff from coming up on other peoples feeds....

http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=feeds

Call me dumb, but I can't figure out what the difference between the two feeds is.

They both have mostly the same stuff, except one of them seems to have more useless shit.

I don't mind it, stop fucking whining you bunch of pricks!

Adapt or die

tazz. wrote:

It's fucking shit.