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Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages
alphadogg writes "The [Facebook Profile] changes include a clustered listing of biographical information under the user name at the top of the page, including such details as the person's job, hometown, relationship status, where they went to college, what languages they speak and birthdate. Beneath that will appear a set of the five most recent photos that a user allows to be posted at their profile page." The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.
It'll be useless to *you,* but it might get you (or your friends) to click over to the person that uploaded it. I'm sure a lot of thought went into trying to keep you on the site as long as possible.
Michael C. Hollinger
So now facebook is the new google, extremely minor changes are finding place on tech news sites.
Is facebook really technology? From what i can figure out, its a place where people spend 700 billion minutes a month playing farville and mafia wars.
I'd rather have all the facebook employees working on something significant, like i dunno, developing software for the space missions, or heck, even search engines. Search engines are awefully complicated - facebook is just a photo album with lots of cookies to track you.
At what point do we realize that people wasting time on such sites is as big a danger as say, drugs?
When's the war on facebook ?
http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php isn't compatible with Firefox 4, IE 9, or Chromium 6
"Don't hate the media, become the media." -Jello Biafra
... automatic security preference "accidental" changes begin.
So many people just accept these upgrades without going back and checking their privacy settings again.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
Well yeah, it turns out of you post anything worthwhile your hosts drop you, you get DDOSed, the US gov't wants to throw you in jail and Swedish women say you raped them.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
It's not optional, it's phased. Facebook always rolls out their changes with a phased approach, not changing all profiles at once.
It is inevitable.
My problem with it is they don't give you any easy way to control exactly which pictures appear on the "ribbon"...
Living With a Nerd
Its not the fault of facebook, but it is an encouragement.
/. decides that you can put a display picture.
Let me give you an example - assume that for example -
If the picture is in a hidden page (such as the profile one) - you not having one won't matter, because few people will see its missing)
if this picture slot is in a prominant position - such as attached to your every post (like certain forums) - then there is more of an incentive to add one.
Social Engineering at its finest.
Depends on your definition of "getting over it." I "got over" digg's redesign, too. I removed my bookmark and replaced it with reddit. Haven't let the door hit me on the way out. There are certain discussions which don't expand correctly on Slashdot, and that pisses me off. Not enough to quit the site, mostly because I started reading it in '96.
someone knew what they were doing. I have never seen so many of my friends update their non-current data that was now brought to the forefront. It's almost like they had a problem, nailed out some requirements, and properly engineered a solution.
insight through the mind
I still read slashdot in classic mode. Even got an email from them asking for commentary. I keep trying the 2.0, but it just isn't as good as the classic system.