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

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

totally worth it tho

I promise the ROI is very high

Really don't like where this is going...

http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/prepare-for-the-new-facebook/

Facebook is driven by a single, unique goal. Its priority isn’t to gain more users (it already has 750 million of those), nor does it feel compelled to find stupid ways to increase pageviews. Its primary goal right now isn’t to increase revenue, either — that will come later.

No, Facebook’s goal is to become the social layer that supports, powers and connects every single piece of the web, no matter who or what it is or where it lives. On Thursday at its f8 conference in San Francisco, the world’s largest social network will take a giant leap toward accomplishing that goal.

I have seen what Facebook is launching on Thursday, and it’s going to change the world of social media. And while I won’t talk about the mind-boggling things Facebook will be launching, I will say this: The Facebook you know and (don’t) love will be forever transformed. The news that will come out of Facebook during the next few weeks will be the biggest things to come out of the company since the launch of the Facebook Platform.

For Facebook, it all boils down to one problem: emotion. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and spectacular levels of engagement, but it is a platform that has lost its emotional resonance over the years. More and more people visit Facebook out of necessity rather than desire. It’s a platform people prefer to hate, but won’t leave simply because all their friends are there.

It’s a relationship gone stale. After years of dating, the magic between Facebook and its users has dissipated. It’s a natural evolution in any relationship, but now there is another suitor vying for Facebook’s users. And a lot of people think this suitor is easy on the eyes.

That’s why Facebook launched three recent changes: revamped Friend Lists, a real-time new ticker, and the subscribe button. Friend Lists lets you share content with just your closest friends (with whom you have the strongest emotional connection), and the ticker lets you have real-time conversations with your friends as soon as they do anything. Subscribe lets you fill your News Feed with people you admire and respect, fostering a different type of emotional connection.

But these changes are just the beginning. The changes Facebook will roll out on Thursday are designed to enhance the emotional connection its users have to each other through Facebook. These changes will make Facebook a place where nearly everything in your life is enhanced by your social graph. These changes will make it so you know your friends better than you ever thought you could.

On Thursday, developers will be elated, users will be shellshocked and the competition will look ancient. On Thursday, Facebook will be reborn. Prepare yourselves for the evolution of social networking.

Like, unless they're launching free hologram technology where I can go grab a drink with someone who lives 3000 miles away, I'm not interested in Facebook making the site more "emotional".