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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.
a site redesign is news?
What did you expect from Faceplant?
The latest five pictures will be totally useless for me because a lot of my friends tag a picture with my name if they think I would interested in it rather than because its a picture of me!
apparently facebook doesn't support Opera? I visit it using this web browser all the time but when I click the link to facebook in the summary it tells me that facebook isn't cool enough to support Opera. Weird.
Eat sleep die
More predictable semantic information which can be used in to collect more information about the users. Hooray!
Otherwise known as 'ranger'
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
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 ?
Really must be, what's this all about? link ?
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
They moved around a few things. It doesn't make any difference to me.
"The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger" That's what they always say, a few days later, the cries dim out. Humans tend to resist change.
I just wish Diaspora was finished so I could send an invitation to the few FB friends who matter to join me there and then delete my FB page.
I quite like it. It's nice and simple.
My Journal
... 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.
... so far, at least. My profile is just the same as yesterday. Only when I clicked on a friend's profile did I see the change.
There was a button I could click to follow suit, but I ignored it.
People got over the FARK.com redesign, and they got over Slashdot 2.0. They'll get over this as well, and forget to check their privacy settings.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.
Rage to anger.... That doesn't seem to be much of a range, or even mixed for that matter... Range and anger are basically synonymous in my book... That is strange wording.
Didnt everyone hate 'the wall'? Just as much?
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
No! The feeling ranged from rape to angered ....
Er.. what is Facebook actually??
They fixed some compatibility issues it seems. I still use Firefox 2 and Facebook looked so "broken" it was pathetic, now it's almost all correct. Funnily they dropped some web 2.0 features, the page reloads entirely when you check another in-page tab. The ads are invading but the design overall is better. First time they actually improve something, at least in my books. But of course, it still is just the same old useless Facebook we could all live without...
Browse friendships on the new profile is just downright creepy. I know it's all visible info, but I can't think of a single non-creepy reason anyone would want to click and see every interaction between two other people.
If you were looking at the results for two people, and one of the people you were looking up walked up behind you, you'd try to hide it before they caught you. There really isn't a good explanation you could give them if they saw you doing it.
It appears to me a tool designed exclusively for stalkers, is there any other reason it exists? I'm really at a loss to figure out why this wasn't rejected the second it was suggested and the person suggesting it isn't avoided like the plague at the office.
This sentence no verb.
As it turns out, the friends that matter to you will continue to stay in touch with you even if you are not on Facebook.
Palm trees and 8
Five most recent profile pics visible to whom, friends or strangers? I know some people who use landscapes or cartoons as their "public" profile pic, and relied on FB access control model to prevent non-friends from seeing the other profile pictures. Now I bet a lot of people will delete their extra profile pics. Then FB's policy will be to delve into the database of deleted items until their year of use is up and declare deleted items "public".
I try to keep Slashdot as close to the original as possible. I keep Javascript disabled, and when the admins tried to reenable it for me, I disabled it again.
Palm trees and 8
An AC mentioned this already, that link is simply the page you're redirected to if you use an incompatible browser.
Particularly the "Question only you know the answer to".
That has the range from "First grade teacher" through "Pet's name" all the way over to "Street you lived on when you were 8".
Is anyone in Facebook HQ aware that about 90% of their users use it to communicate or get back in touch with the very group of people who would know those answers - BECAUSE THEY ANSWERED THE SAME QUESTION THE SAME WAY?!
Hello! Your entire first grade class had the same teacher. Your friends know the name of your pets and the street you lived on. Your cousins sure as hell know the rest of the questions like mother's maiden name etc.
Why not just give everyone the default code of 0000 or 12345? It's about the same level of security.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Neither does Chrome.
When I saw the Diaspora guys putting a blank page and telling users to "get a real browser" when navigating with IE, I thought it was bad taste on their part to willingly shove away potential users. Seeing this sh**head page from Fecesbook, I now completely understand their position -- although I believe they shouldn't be fighting sh**headedness with more sh**headedness.
That's it! I'm going back to Geocities!
It's a problem with TFA's link, not Facebook.
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Facebook now forgets that you actually used https to login or show a page. All links are now without https. Tested in Fx and Chrome.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/
the man who doesn't own a television and in pure narcissism tells this fact to anyone at the slightest chance
i am the same sort of laughable curmudgeon when it comes to facebook: i don't have a page, and never will, and proudly announce the fact to people whenever the subject of facebook comes up. i am the fringe weirdo, and i know it. and regardless of my level of narcissism, i am apparently also turning out to be wise. people are feeding facebook so much detail about their lives they are doing nothing than feeding a beast which makes privacy in their lives impossible
facebook is a future myspace/ friendster. give it a few years. simply as a matter of fact that facebook's business goals will make people more and more uncomfortable and more and more creeped out. yet facebook cannot back away from their business goals of exploiting and cashing in on the massive data stores about us that they are sitting on, because those server farms cost a heck of a lot to maintain. so as facebook rushes to fulfill the promise of their business plan, they will inevitably repulse and drive away their members
cantankerous weirdos like me who don't have a facebook account will begin to look cool again, prescient even. i promise i won't loudly bleat "i told you so" in 2013 when the latest slashdot story is about the decline of facebook
but here's the big thing: the phenomenon of social networking sites have a real world analogy: the hot club/ restaurant/ bar. take any metropolitan area, and you will have some nightlife hangouts that are THE place to be and be seen, some that are past their prime, and some that are up and coming. social networking sites are the online analogy of this continuous sociological process of rising and falling. after a certain amount of time as the "center of the world", a new dynamic takes places where a new "in" crowd begins to consider the hot hangout spot to be over the hill, declasse, tired, over. and they have a new little place where the "coolest of the cool" hang out. and then the exodus begins in earnest. soon the new place has lines out the door every night, the old place is empty. somehow everyone knows about the new place, and they all want to get in. the old place can't pay people to come. then a new "in" crowd rises... repeat ad nauseum. what's notable for those who would extend this analogy completely, is that there is subcultural rift lines. the internet is still young. maybe the future of social networking sites will fractionate according to those who identify themselves according to certain subcultural identifiers. well, that's true already to some extent
now if i were REALLY smart i'd be busy maneuvering around the next feature set that will make the next social networking site the "got to have it" place to put up your profile. and ride that pile of money to its bitter end. well, there's probably already about a hundred thousand zuckerberg wannabes out there doing exactly that already. 99% of those wannabes absolutely suck, but in that remaining 1%, all i know is, one of them will actually succeed
because facebook is jumping the shark, and the internet still needs an "it" social hangout spot. which site that will be... i wish i had that crystal ball
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WTF? Can the editors please stop bashing Facebook every single time they do anything? For once, everyone I've talked to has been decently happy with this change.
Omnes stulti sunt.
I submitted this story yesterday, with a more positive spin pointing out that th new design is now faster and gives significantly more control privacy wise. What does Slashdot do? Wait a day and then get it wrong. Sigh.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Who runs from questions -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34459018 and trolls others but cannot back up his ambiguous moronic horseshit, you big bullshit artist.
I left all of those areas blank from day one and there's nothing changed in my profile. Just because they ask doesn't mean you have to answer.
Some of us don't mind sharing info with friends - or even friends of friends - especially since Facebook is the only way some of them will try and contact people. I personally would rather just get email, but most people never did seem to use email that much socially - even before Facebook.
I can't imagine a well-recieved Facebook update by now. Everything about Facebook seems to be bad, but at the same time every attempt to change it also seems to be bad. I wonder how much this is due to actual problems with Facebook, and how much it is due to people making themsleves impossible to please.
I've heard that in the next release in addition to showing hometown and birthdate, they will also show last four digits of your social security number, mother's maiden name, favorite movie, and the name of your first pet.
Well, then you take your chances, I guess. Just don't complain when your identity gets stolen. What's there is almost enough to do it if you have a fairly unique name. Finding out the rest of your real life identity information wouldn't be that difficult.
I think you seriously underestimate how much of your personal information is already on the public market to buy and sell. Unless you buy your prepaid cell phone with cash, and send all your credit card bills to a P.O. box.
Just how do you think you might steal someone's identity via Facebook, when their personal info is not publicly indexed (friends-only privacy settings), and only D.O.B., address, and phone number might be available at worst? All of which, by the way, I can seem to find on public info searches online already.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34461838
This should be good for a laugh, watching the adhominem attack using troll named metrix007 who trolled others here http://slashdot.org/~metrix007 using ad hominem attacks take a good beating he deserves. I wager he'll run and evade questions (though he demanded proof of others of various things and they were supplied more than adequately) as he has been doing, especially where he was asked to disprove these points in favor of HOSTS files here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34378092 even to the point of where he tried to use "forums logic" and yet he uses ad hominem attacks (violating logical tenets of debate right away in his trolling).
Last time Facebook rolled out a new interface design there was mass outrage, many complained to no end.
This time around the new interface design is opt-in only, and Facebook is advertising all of the cool new friends who have opted in on each user's wall. Subconsciously the users want to be as cool and up to date as their friends, so they naturally opt in as well.
Facebook has avoided the outrage this time around for the most part.
Wow, dude, you seriously need like an intervention or something.
(Posting anonymously so you don't psychostalk me too.)
Especially this one, where he further tried to libel me, & found out that my libellers (Computer Associates, his main source, are KNOWN disreputable scoundrels):
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34464476
and where my post was VERY recently (a week or so ago here) modded up to the MAX +5 interesting, no less, where it disproves & disposes of metrix007 further attempts @ ad hominem attacks directed my way (& then he fails on technical grounds regarding HOSTS files below & more, hilarious!)
Oh, the "price of trolling" is this, metrix007, noone deserves it more than you (especially when you impersonated me too there).
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Where metrix is caught again using "forums ILLOGIC" (though he tried to say it was LOGIC & hasn't even taken that, lol) & further ad hominem attacking myself:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34464138
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metrix007 says "I give up" when caught skimming & missing points from my rather respected source on HOSTS files advantage (which only covers PART of what I extoll on them):
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34463878
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Where metrix007 is shown to have started trolling myself, & evading my questions (though I did not evade ANY of his):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34463016
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LASTLY & MOST IMPORTANTLY: Where I got him to "try" to attack & disprove 15 points on HOSTS files I put up here, and he failed on each one (only 3 attempted no less & he "gave up" per the above, & started his adhominem attacks again):
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888084&cid=34462614
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To quote Clint Eastwood, as Mr. Kowalski in "Gran Torino":
"Ever notice that every once in awhile, you come across someone you shouldn't have fucked with? THAT'S ME..." Clint Eastwood as Mr. Kowalski
Then, per my subject-line & the URL's above where metrix007 came into a thread, ad hominem attacked me, & lied, was caught lying, skimming, & making HUGE technical errors + far more!
(After his calling myself, an internationally multiple time published programmer/analyst of 17++ yrs., names & worse & finding out he was off, WAY off)
He finally tried to attack some points I challenged him to, & "knocked himself dead up out" with his own words, lies, skimming + trolling, & on only 1 of 15 points in favor of HOSTS files I made which he evaded to no end until those posts above?
ROTFLMAO!
(Mod me down if you like folks, but I am only paying him back, in kind, & letting HIS OWN WORDS do him in!)
APK
P.S.=> Oh, by the way: metrix007 has a NEW "Troll theme song" by AC/DC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y55wvdcCJfk
"SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES" by AC/DC!
Rotflmao... nothing could fit him better, especially after the above... apk
...yet was created.
Well, making it easier to do so isn't the right direction to be taking as a company.
All you need is to be part of any of the larger interest groups. A *lot* of people also belong to these and I get several a week trying to get me to join. If you put it up, someone can view it someday or will quite possibly steal it someday. The saner approach is to just not divulge any personal information at all online.