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Anyone else frustrated with all the changes to facebook? 😈I hear there is MORE on the way...I think I'll be using Twitter a lot more! Here is my twitter account. I'll be posting more things there like Studioveena Events, New Lessons, Blogs and SV new. http://twitter.com/#!/StudioVeena
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If you learn how to work the system then it is really not all that bad. It just depends really on how you use facebook. I ahve lists created for close friends, pole buddies, family, and businesses.
not bothering me much after the first hour or so of figuring it out. I also figure it is a free service so who am i to complain what they are doing with it, if I paid for membership that might be different. like one paid forum that i was a member of that now you have to get new threads approved before they are posted....
there is more change coming...... Chris watched alive broadcast, of Mark Zuckerbrg explaining things they have planned. Its going to get a lot more complicated!! I have thought most of the changes that have upset others in the past were fine.... free or not I still have the right to be annoyed. LOL
I'm vexed by the "news feed" thing not being something you can control the privacy of. I don't think I'll be using it any more. I know it probably sounds silly, but I don't want every single "friend" of mine to be shown what I've commented on someone else's pages. I have exes and "complications" that I don't want to have seeing more than I want them to see. Sure, they could just not follow my feed, but that's not within my control. It's free, they have no need to pander to me, so I'm not going to make a fuss. I've just been forced off of it by my own paranoid need for privacy, lol.
I am NOT loving the new changes...and I get that it's free so they can do whatever - but the interface keeps getting more annoying and I am all confused LOL...it's making me feel old 🙂 I will just spend less time on it...which is probably a good thing anyhow
My main reason for the post was to let everyone know I'll be on Twitter more. I don't want to have to rely on FB to keep everyone up to date. http://twitter.com/#!/StudioVeena
Hehe, sorry for hijacking your thread to rant. See you on twitter then! 😉
haha Miraine is ok, I get why you would be upset! For me, the issue was, the time I have to take to change settings. I don't stay on FB 24/7 and I don't like to spend my computer time changing settings, I'm not computer savvy despite what everyone might assume! Even with instruction I still get confuse!..... Twitter it is!
not a twitterer here. and you can change pretty much back to the way it was...
I don't mind the change. I'm actually kind of interested to figure out what all the new Facebook can do! Facebook is constantly changing, so I've learned to expect it. They kind of have to change from time to time in order to stay relevant, especially with Google+ being released. Otherwise they might become the next Myspace! LOL
FB is getting complicated.
Miraine...that was already shown prior to this new change. It was just in with the rest of the stuff, so you saw that so and so commented and then you would get a status update and then maybe a game thingy then so and so are now friends. All it did was separate that little background "noise" from the actual news feed and put it as a ticker on a side screen.
Veena, thanks for the Twitter move. I too find the new layout of Facebook too complicated using my computer. Using my iPod or Android phone, it hadn't been to bad. #followingStudioVeena 😀
Veena is SO RIGHT!!!! Many new changes are still to come.....they are calling it Life Book and it is going to be set up more like a photo album. I'm going to check out Twitter too Venna!
So one news story....actually some of tha new capabilities sound kind of cool: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/52625227-79/timeline-facebook-zuckerberg-friends.html.csp
The Salt Lake TribuneFacebook introduces more, even bigger changes to social network Facebook just got a lot more personal.
The ubiquitous online social network, which boasts 800 Yeah, I am about as good with a computer as I am on a pole.....and that is NOT TOO GOOD! Actually I am too computer illiterate to even try to sign up for Twitter. However, I THINK I joined Skype today, took me a few hours!!!!! Not sure tough, haven't tried to connect with anyone, because I am still in my robe from this morining!
I highly recommend Google+ if you haven't tried it yet! It's still in it's "Beta" stage, which means they're still working out the bugs, but they want people to join it so those people can FIND the bugs! I have like, over 100 invites, so if anyone wants to try it out, I can try to figure out how to make them go! I'm seriously against Facebook, and have been for a while. I would just leave it, but a lot of my family from England are on there, and I'd rather not lose contact with them. Google+ hasn't got those incessant games, their interface is way easy to use, and it connects into things like Youtube and Gmail, so you can get it all together. And yes, I hate the new Facebook layout. Why does Facecrack get to decide which of my friends are "top stories" and which are not?
I'm on Google+ but I don't really use it. Most people wont find me though because you have to use your real name. LOL
Hehe, Veena, yeah...there aren't that many people on G+ yet, but it is getting better. I really like it, because I really find Google to be a very nice company.
@Chemgoddess You're right, the "News Feed" did exist before. I was under the mistaken impression that deleting a " just commented on X's wall post" link from your own wall hid it, because it was no longer visible to me *anywhere*. I hadn't realised that it would still be in people's news feeds, but that was pretty much universally ignored for the timeline view I guess so a bit less noticeable. All that actually means is, if I'd not ignored the existence of the news feed earlier, I'd have just stopped using FB back then! 🙂
Runemist, I too am on Google+, but just because they don't have crazy games and apps and whatnot YET doesn't mean it won't happen. There's already talk about add-on apps, Google just hasn't opened the platform to third-party developers yet. I mean, Facebook and MySpace both started out pretty damn basic, and while Google+ is starting far ahead of where FB and MS did, it's still quite basic and will probably evolve into a convoluted monster the same way its competitors have. It took me the better part of yesterday morning to figure out the ins and outs of the new Facebook and get all my friends into lists. They did already have the list thing looong before this change, I just don't think a lot of people used it. I used it mostly for privacy things; I had (and still keep) a "No Pole" list so that if I do post something pole-related on FB (which I don't do often), I can hide it from people who (a) I don't want seeing it, like my family-in-law and coworkers, or (b) have indicated to me that they'd prefer not to see it. I think there's been a lot of very public backlash against the "Facebook get to decide what's important" thing. And what I think it is, Facebook wants you to tweak your feed and tell it what's important so it can give you more of that content, which is fine in theory but flawed in practice. For instance, if I mark a video from a friend as a "top story," will Facebook think I want more posts from that friend? More videos? More videos just from that friend? I don't understand its criteria, so I haven't been messing with the Top Stories thing and will probably just end up ignoring it. (Sorry for the long-ass reply, I'm kinda techy so while I find the Facebook changes frustrating, I'm sort of weirdly fascinated by the impact it may have on the future of social media. I think it already pushed a lot of people to Google+ or other alternatives.)
The only thing im not a big fan of is the top stories - I want to know whats going on with everyone on FB. I may not comment or like but its hard with the amount of friends I have. So I may not get my bff's post b/c I havent commented/liked something of hers recently. im gonna hang on to my FB, b/c we have an old IE that doesnt support G+ at work. And it helps pass time at lunch. But I will be using Twitter and G+ more. You can find me on twitter - @teamlulu and find me on G+ as LuAyne Brown. Ive also learned the hard way using my gmail for work that I have to be careful what I post as profile pic. Im just worried about losing a customer b/c my profile pic being me in a split with my back leg up with cheek showing!
Just glad I don't use FB:) I think its great for business and promotions, but I think it is a big invasion of privacy. I don't wnt everyone knowing soooooooooooooo much-I worry about the weirdo's. I hear Twitter is good for business too-but I don't have that either. Good luck!😎
if you don't like the lack of privacy and the lists and groups on facebook you will not like google + either, half of the stuff they did to facebook was to make it more google+ like and the privacy controls on google + are 20x worse then facebook. and pretty much whatever you put on the internet anywhere is available for pretty much anyone to see if they know where to look.
@NYMPH Thats why I am only here:) I don't even know what like is. I thought google was only a search engine. I'm out of the "loop" and glad. Less stress and worry.
