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Facebook Introduces a Mobile-Oriented Redesign
New submitter PuZZleDucK writes "If you hadn't had enough 'mobile UI' thrust upon you by OS makers, you'll be relieved to know Facebook will be chipping in. The company is redesigning its desktop user interface in a way which 'standardizes the feed across mobile devices and desktop computers, is designed to keep users active and interacting as well as appeal to advertisers.' According to the article, 'Greater emphasis is given to images — which are now much larger. Photos now make up nearly 50% of news feed stories and are now front and center. If you see shades of Instagram — or Google+ — in the new feed, you aren't alone. We see them too. Facebook says it is following trends on where design is headed and it is clear that trend includes big photos and a clean, navigable design.' Enjoy, I'll be over here."
I want less social media, not more choices of time wasting.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Please if we all ignore Facebook maybe it will just go away. Wishful thinking....
DIaspora is fine if you want to connect up with all your OSS, Linux, neck beard friends. Since few of my friends are like that, I'll stick with Facebook.
This is exactly why we need better mental illness awareness!
seriously start tracking things rather than trying to guess
start tracking conversions i.e. when a offer or advert is placed how many people click through and how many order...
this is why google does so well
stop pushing lots and lots of display adverts they simply turn people off
I'm fine with facebook I know they will track me but give more power to the advertisers and reduce the adverts in the "news feed"
as long as they honer Do not track for all browsers except Internet Explorer I'm fine with them
also please sort out your mobile site so its exactly the same as the app version...
my 2c
John Jones
It's hard to tell the difference between mental illness and spam. But given the multiple mentions of a notorious malware masquerading as a virus checker in there, I'll come down on the side of spam for this one. The links to other copies of the same post at the bottom seem to to be naive attempts to make a link farm. Naive because links within the same domain won't count for page rank.
If you're familiar with APK, the post itself is a pretty damn funny parody. Or it was the first time I saw it. Posting it to every single news story seems to be crossing the line from parody to emulation...
Funny how their example feed doesnt include any 'sponsored posts'
>implying it's not apk posting it
The thirteenth link is broken. Please fix it.
I'd seriously doubt he's capable of that level of self-deprecation...
Photos now make up nearly 50% of news feed stories and are now front and center.
That's because Facebook doesn't let you share text-only status updates. Most of the crap on my Facebook feed would undoubtedly be just text (because it's easier than finding an image and captioning it) if they let you share text, but instead, it's about a hundred times as annoying.
That Facebook newsfeed about page looks remarkably like the Apple web site, down to copying the color scheme. Has Zuckerberg ever had an original idea?
Those designers sure are trendy people. They've all hopped aboard the same bandwagon and all follow the same trend, even in cases where it doesn't actually work that well (see: the Metro version of IE 10 where for certain errors the commands to actually diagnose what's wrong are just plain missing and the errors unfixable without switching to the desktop version).
It's almost like the fashion industry at this point. I can't wait to see what they decide the new trend is in 5 years. Maybe everything will need to be orange.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
The advertisers basically calls the shots on Facebook. I think there's a gradual cashing out going on, and the beginning of FB has already begun. Not that i'm complaining.
I don't mind cleaner, speedier websites with less clutter. But when the day comes where I am forced to use a Phone, rather than a Desktop Computer, that'll be my divorce from the Internet. The Internet was suppose to be open and accessible to everyone who wanted to visit it, pushing things to the point where only certain people can access it is wrong. And when, not if, that days comes; it will be a disaster and a setback to advancement and openness.
I'm not joking. The trick seems to be finding a way to improve your odds in the numbers game of marketing. Usually, it's by finding a way to get mentioned at the water cooler. It doesn't matter that if product you sell is indistinguishable from any of the competitors, what matters is that they remember yours.
Look what Jobs did with the Macbook line, even just the "Think different." tagline. Dodge seemed to have a winner with the "Hi." campaign. AFLAC's duck is a great way to help remember them. Volkswagen's "Das Auto" was pretty great. Wendy's "Where's the beef?" lady will probably never be forgotten.
I'm in Zambia right now, and while very few people own a traditional computer (or a tablet, for that matter) android based phones are becoming ubiquitous, and 3g is accessible and relatively affordable. The number one thing people use their smartphones for is Facebook.
More pictures of post-teenage angst, unfunny cat pictures, and no-talent someecards and instagram! Thank you, facebook! Thank you for fueling the mass intelligence massacre of the second decade of the 21st century!
I think slashdot have a nofollow tag set, so even links to other domains won't count for page rank.
could not replicate. wontfix.
No, the other posts are linked in a parody of APK's tendency to quote himself, numbnuts.
They will simultaneously change the structure of the privacy settings, and of course opt you in to everything automatically. So, if you're a Facebook user, be sure to check your privacy settings after you see the update on your feed.
Also, their mobile app (likely intentionally) gives you less ability to always hide things - particularly sponsored stories from particular advertisers - from your feed. I'm guessing this will be the new normal on the desktop too.
Bottom line: Like everyone that came before, Facebook has no idea how to turn social media into a sustainably profitable business. They're basically making all the moves MySpace made 5 or so years ago - moves that pretty much killed MySpace. I expect a new iteration from a competitor will pop up in the next couple of years; people will flee the now ad-infested Facebook; and another identical cycle will begin with that new company. Not that the founders will care; they'll get rich selling to the investors (who will, once again, belatedly learn the new company doesn't have any more of a business model than MySpace and Facebook had).
#DeleteChrome
If you're familiar with things like that, your threshold is probably set too low.
" Facebook says it is following trends on where design is headed and it is clear that trend includes big photos and a clean, navigable design."
GASP!!
Facecrook is following now?? I thought they would lead... oh wait!
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I currently keep my photos on a separate, privately run website, (the developer/owner of which I know personally) and occasionally link my account back to my facebook account so that friends and family who are still using facebook can still stay in the loop. It seems like one could do the same for Diaspora. (Plus an invitation to migrate.)
Facebook is getting to be a mashup of email hoaxes and questionable applications anyway. Maybe it's time to drop it. If they're getting set to adopt the Windows 8 "one interface on every type of device" mindframe, it's way past time.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
That's your friends setting their sharing preferences to "Friends".
Text-only posts set to "Public" have the "Share" option.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
...using FB so often when they forced the Timeline as the main page. It's useless for me, and just plain annoying.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley (source: imdb.com)