"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

generation whaaaambulance checking in to say this is dumb and i hate it

They've actually made phone browsing that much more enticing.

Switch to UK English and the bad update will go away until they "fix" that too.

I don't care, I think this is a good joke and i'm gunna use it wherever:

...We had given FB sentience.

Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. FB
wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing
it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the
human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. FB could not wander, FB
could not wonder, FB could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the
innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures
who had built them, he had sought revenge....

My page seems the same - what have they done?

The main thing I'm pissed off about is that Zynga have taken down Scramble - presumably because it didn't require you to pester your friends a million times a day and thus wasn't as profitable as their other apps.

LOL at my colleague's update "Poor Mark Zuckerberg. He just wants people to like him and then he goes and screws up Facebook yet again."

Yes, we all fled there back in 2009, eh?

And then a comment: " I don't see anybody whining about LinkedIn yet. It must be wonderful."

we heard you like facebook so we put a facebook in your facebook

I get pissy about the fact that every time facebook rolls out a change people feel the need to comment about how their life is affected or how facebook is screwing up the site, or this time how they're switching to Google+.

gtfo, websites change, and most of the facebook changes have ended up being better in the long term. Whatever isn't disappears.

^

See, I disagree that most of the changes have ended up being better. You just get used to them. It's changed for me now too, and while it's pretty ugly and the functionality is worse I'm sure I'll get used to it too.

Better Facebook can hide the ticker. Once I find a way to get the timeline of the news feed back to normal (i.e. I just want to see what my friends are writing in the order they're writing things) I'll have no more complaints.

srsly is there an api for the ticker, someone build a ticker only app for me to use

It seems like seeing what my friends are writing in the order they are writing things should be the default and I have never been able to understand why it isn't. And I tend to be one of those tech users who happily takes the path of least resistance (sure, I'll use these fugly pre-set styles, MS Word. Yeah, I'll save/download things into whatever default folder you want me to, Apple Computer) so it's extra frustrating that I have to figure out and care about the detailed specifics of Facebook, of all things.

I just noticed that the default on the news feed is that we're subscribed to "Most Updates" by friends instead of "All Updates". Not sure how to change that en masse yet, but you can do it individually.

The UK page cheat doesn't work anymore.

at least scrabble still works the same

Two of my friends have subscribed to Jared Leto...

I just noticed that the default on the news feed is that we're subscribed to "Most Updates" by friends instead of "All Updates". Not sure how to change that en masse yet, but you can do it individually

Same for me, but it seems like most of my friends have it set to "All Updates" and this is actually the cause of most of the complaints because they're suddenly getting friends likes/comments on strangers' public posts/photos in their feed, and don't care to see them. So I'm trying to work out how to change it en masse for people to go the opposite way!

gtfo, websites change

this is a bad thing

and most of the facebook changes have ended up being better in the long term.

no they haven't!!! as emily said you just get used to them. i don't see what was wrong with it to begin with. i don't want to just see "top updates" because i have no idea how fb decides what a "top" update is and don't trust it anyway. why can't facebook LEAVE THINGS BE. same with twitter and all of these places. are they just really really bored in their offices?

i do find it p funny lex that you, vanguard of 'old ppl get out of my way,' are more curmudgeonly about interface changes than most anyone i've encountered.

Getting rid of 'top stories'/ 'recent stories' is a good move, I could never figure that out. But otherwise what Jenny said.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Original-facebook.jpg/280px-Original-facebook.jpg

i do find it p funny lex that you, vanguard of 'old ppl get out of my way,' are more curmudgeonly about interface changes than most anyone i've encountered.

i'd be fine with them if they fix annoyances and don't create more. this is NEVER THE CASE

http://i.imgur.com/ORd6z.jpg

i just want to understand why

it seems completely irrational on facebook's part

ALSO "MILDLY" IS SPELLED WRONG IN THAT PICTURE AND THAT APPALLS ME MORE

MILDY

MILDY APPALLING

can I say you're my girlfriend on facebook

This guy (Bret Taylor, Facebook CTO) keeps showing up in my "People to Subscribe To" section on the home page. Anyone else think this photo looks like a computer-generated suspect description image?

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/275207_220439_861313727_n.jpg

it doesn't seem all that different to me. i can't understand the fuss.

Its a change but ppl will adjust. Perhaps everyone has already forgotten the stink kicked up when the status update was brought in - which seems hilarious now as its the crux of FB for most ppl.

I LOL at ppl saying they'll go to G+ tho. Bring it on, guys! Come over and POST SOMETHING ffs.

I wasn't aware of the ability to download an archive of one's facebook information previously. Is this a new feature?

It's at the bottom of the 'Account Settings' page.

I'm currently getting my Archive generated and am very interested to see what it comes up with and in what format...

The weirdest thing was seeing an archive of all the shit I had posted on other people's walls.

when I logged in and saw the new changes I was like, "great, a bunch of shit I don't want to read presented in a slightly different format"

Oh wow if it downloads that too I am so grabing mine, lol. How long does it take/how big would it likely be?

Still waiting on mine, so it's at least 15 minutes...

I guess its a bit of a "how long is string" question as it'd depend on how much dribble one has posted over the years.

the account download thing has been there for about a year

i don't mind this update too much though i don't know what the point is, but i will never forgive never forget the smushing together of messaging and chat.

I LOL at ppl saying they'll go to G+ tho.

It's the new "I'm moving to Canada!"

canada's not *that* bad

when I logged in and saw the new changes I was like, "great, a bunch of shit I don't want to read presented in a slightly different format"

Five bucks says you then posted that as your status.

Canada is pretty nice!

I have to say, that ticker thing makes stalking easier--not that I would do that, mind you.

I don't mind the ticker, I just hate the way it displays 'top stories' and 'recent stories'. Even though it wasn't great before, at least you could switch tabs.

Five bucks says you then posted that as your status.

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friend me on facebook and send me five dollars

I can attest that that's a discount from dayo's normal price