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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.
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!
Not really.
They should also edit the last line to read, "The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to complete apathy."
More predictable semantic information which can be used in to collect more information about the users. Hooray!
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 ?
The link in the summary is broken, and points directly to Facebook's "Incompatible Browser" page.
... 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.
Yep - it's on the front page of CNN, too.
Next we get to find out what Zuckerberg found between his teeth yesterday. Stay tuned!
Fucking losers. Facebook is so 2009.
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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.
Justin? Is that you? How come you turned down my friend request?
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
60 Minutes even covered this last night. What blew my mind was the fact that they had 12 "engineers" working full time to build this new profile page. If the data and backend systems are logically designed then this redesign should be very easy. So either these "engineers" are low skilled or their systems are a mess.
Developers: We can use your help.
and they got over Slashdot 2.0.
did they?
http://gizmodo.com/5706926/facebooks-profile-redesign-is-coming-later-today-but-heres-how-to-get-it-now Opera works fine.
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
To be fair, I doubt that the majority of the time was spent on actual coding. I imagine a lot of it was spent on things like UI design (positioning the graphics, buttons, etc.) and aesthetics.
Judging from the result I can't help but wonder if FB just gave the team a year's supply of whiskey.
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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
Same here.
It's a bit like Windows 7. You know the thing you want is there, but you don't know where they've hidden it with the latest redesign. So you just type the name of what you want into the search bar, and it magically appears.
which is totally what she said
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.
Actually, I hated The Wall - beyond 'Another Brick (pt 2)' I found it dry and tedious. I much prefer Dark Side of the Moon & Wish You Were Here.
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
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.