Wednesday, September 21, 2011

A new kind of Facebook survey

Alright, I can't take it anymore.

I mean, I can, because I'll always log on to Facebook dozens of times a day, out of pure routine at this point, but I'm sick of seeing all these changes. I want to know where Facebook gets all these ideas from, to change everything, and how many people they survey to see if people would like it. One person they have yet to get answers from is moi. Allow me, Facebook.

Change: Saving all chats with every single person ever.
What do I think?: I actually kinda like this - it is cool to see how far back you and someone go, and what you said when. It's also good in the case of a heated argument, where evidence lies a few Ctrl+F's away. I do wish Facebook stuck with the (now ancient) system of "Inbox (1)," but I'm just a dreamer.
Consensus: Saving all of the chats is cool, but keep them separate from messages. The two have different intentions.

Change: This new news feed in the top right of the homepage.
What do I think?: I have no idea what the difference between this and the regular news feed is. Literally zero.
Consensus: More of something is not always better. Stick to one news feed please.

Change: Merging Top News and Recent Stories.
What do I think?: Maybe I'm overestimating the number of people that do this, but I would say that almost everyone ends up checking every story on their news feed at some point during the day. It's the first thing I do when I log on to catch up with where I left off at the previous viewing of Facebook, so wouldn't it follow that I've seen every top story? However, some manage to find a way to slip through the cracks.
Consensus: Keep it the way it was, with an option to view one or the other instead of both, overlapping, at the same time.

Generally, I like rocking the phrase "Don't fix what's not broken." Facebook overtook MySpace as the number one social networking website for a reason. Although, I also believe in some validity for it being harder to stay at the top than to get there, so maybe this is Facebook's version of trying to keep the target on their back as small as possible. I'm not sure if Facebook has anything to worry about, which would hopefully put them in a position to revert to their old ways of being simple and easy to use.

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