that is the standard on facebook now, chat and messages were merged
don't use the chat widget thing in the bottom right. instead go to "messages" in your favourites menu (in news feed) and compose message from there
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 23 January 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
oh shit now i'm going to have to untrain myself and stop clicking on the message icon in the top banner. fucking facebook.and thx anagram
― Jibe, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah i hate that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
iirc you can click on the message icon and then "Show All Messages" or something like that?
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
yup, that works too. but what i really miss is being able to click on the message and go to the message+inbox rather than this stupid chat window.
― Jibe, Thursday, 23 January 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
i guess this thread is where i come to complain about the utter BS that is facebook.nowadays, when accessing facebook using the ios app when i receive a new message, it asks me to download a new app (facebook messenger) to read them. this makes me so fucking mad, what the hell is wrong with them that they think i need 2 different apps to do the same shitty things as before. i can't read my messages on the fb app, srsly how is this any good fucking facebook dickheads. i refuse to download their POS messenger thing
― Jibe, Saturday, 26 April 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
my guess is they are trying to compete w/ iOS iMessage?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
well this is something they announced a week or two ago
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
not necessarily imessage, although sort of.
i just figured it would make the chat feature work better on your phone?
― sarahell, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
i think their basic point is that mobile doesn't like kitchen sink apps, and their existing app is an example of that, so they're going to break out that functionality
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
zuck or someone might've said something like that somewhere. google it
"mobile" in terms of the phone technology or in terms of users? Such an odd construction ...
― sarahell, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
odd out of the context of the tech industry, but within it no one would bat an eye at my saying that
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
― markers, Monday, April 28, 2014 12:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
people including those at facebook seem to think that "focused" apps like snapchat and instagram are more native to smartphones and that people prefer those types of experiences to more complicated ones like the traditional facebook app, which attempts to mimic the functionality of their desktop website
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
i actually sometimes get annoyed that the fb phone app doesn't work the exact same way as the one for my computer -- i know people that will just use the "internet" version of it on their phones (rather than the mobile apps) because they have "download new app" fatigue & resentment
― sarahell, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
i would prefer one app too for fb but that's not the strategy they're taking
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
It's interesting that Google can get away with separate apps for Voice, Drive, Gmail and G+ (ok, whatever on that last one), but Facebook is so branded as a one-stop shop that splitting features into different applications does seem counter-intuitive.
Kinda like how Microsoft sites still insist on using Searchlight. Download a whole other thing just to look at your website? Nah, thanks anyway.
― pplains, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
facebook has always been seen as one thing: messages, events, photos, whatever were all parts of one thing called facebook.
google has been seen as separate things forever, and only over the past few years have they tried to change that.
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
google was google search and google drive and google reader, none of which had much to do with the other, and facebook was FACEBOOK.
so, in both cases it has to do with design decisions from years ago that impact how users think of their products today.
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
i should really go look for that zuckerberg quote, but somewhere he says something like, on the desktop it made sense for us to be a website, but on mobile things are different. which isn't a bad way to think about things.
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Those reasons possibly why Facebook has this Evil Empire dark side rep like Microsoft back in the 90s while Google, which is bigger and much more loosey-goosey with private info and stats, still gets a pass.
― pplains, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
its also a huge misunderstanding of your user base xp
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
facebook also working on decoupling from the other end in that they left their big acquisitions instagram and whatsapp as separate products, its a really smart big move away from their previous just keep adding all possible functionality of every app to facebook eg location data like foursquare asynchronous follow relationships like twitter, like it mightve taken the constraints of mobile to make them realize how bad that approach was for facebooks usability but it was also bad for the desktop vers imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
― pplains, Monday, April 28, 2014 1:35 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel like this has mostly to do w the fact that facebook is social and really wants to show pics of your titty bar field trip to your aunt
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
its also a huge misunderstanding of your user base xp― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, April 28, 2014 1:41 PM
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, April 28, 2014 1:41 PM
fuck the "user base"
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Everybody be cool, download WeChat
― 龜, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
i always thought you were james franco
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/could-facebook-use-end-a-marriage/
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Did we talk about the "Facebook makes you feel happy/sad" story anywhere?
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
"Share this on Facebook"
― ∞, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
In my tl just now, a post that reads:
Can anyone who plays the ukulele teach me how to pluck a couple of hipster chords?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/mentions
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
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― nostormo, Friday, 1 August 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Is Facebook getting owned right now
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
crushed
― nostormo, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
crashed
― nostormo, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
i've completely stopped using facebook except for messaging because i can't stand things i like or comment on being seen on my, like, cousins' walls and stuff. or old coworkers. people i'm just generally not close with, who i don't really want potentially seeing my interactions with my friends. every time i almost comment on someone else's post i think "ugh what if [x] sees this, that's weird" or "they really don't need to be a spectator in this conversation" etc. and you can't change this! you can restrict your own shit but any interactions with your friends are open to the world.
and i don't post my own shit either. i generally don't really understand what facebook is for anymore aside from broadcasting wedding/baby news/photos. it made sense when i was younger but now it's like i'm curating everything for a bunch of people who aren't on that level w/me. i basically just want to unfriend all my cousins but that makes thanksgiving weird. and i don't need my girlfriends' dad seeing my humorous TEN GIGS OF WOMEN'S BUTTS detective stabler cover photo but i forgot it was there when i friended him (bc i had to!) everything is awkward! i need a pr person
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I get uncomfortable when I see some fb-generated update like
"[my old babysitter] replied to a comment on [her sister who I'm not even friends with]'s post!"
because that means I know that my father-in-law is getting updates like
"how's life is making jokes about cops with the commies from his high school ska band!"
― how's life, Friday, 14 November 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
join the rest of us internet hermits and cut the fb chord guys. been fb free for three ish years now and haven't ever looked back. brb storing my urine in a mason jar
― this things i believe (art), Friday, 14 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
i am blessed by having told family members that i only use fb for academic stuff. they will never bear witness to my stream of dumb likes and narcissistic selfies
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 14 November 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/YXsbRGg.png
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a big spate of unsubcribing ppl works wonders
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
or just muting them
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
but then you risk getting into that situation where you run into someone and they expect you to know they got married or are pregnant or w/e and you're like "hey, I didn't know!" and they're like "but I posted it on fb!" and you're like "sorry but I unfollowed you"
― rising tones cross (anagram), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
You can just say "oh I must have missed that!" and then it's over.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
i've completely stopped using facebook except for messaging because i can't stand things i like or comment on being seen on my, like, cousins' walls and stuff. or old coworkers. people i'm just generally not close with, who i don't really want potentially seeing my interactions with my friends...and i don't post my own shit either. i generally don't really understand what facebook is for anymore aside from broadcasting wedding/baby news/photos.
Wow, I'm completely the opposite -- I think the messaging system is a disaster, to the point that I sort of seethe when someone sends me a message on it. But I find the newsfeed works well as a sort of less public twitter; good for sharing links, good for asking questions ("does anybody know a good ____", "does anybody know how to ____," etc.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
can't stand the messenger thing, or any of FB at all really, but my mother has decided this is the only way she will even bother communicating family events with me and my siblings. even though I've told her over and over that i rarely look at FB and that it is never the best way to communicate with me, she still does it.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link