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

I think it's kind of interesting how the facebook interface keeps evolving, and what is funny is that some of the stuff that people are complaining about now is the exact opposite of what they were complaining about when they introduced the newsfeed; now people seem to think you don't see enough about other people, where before, people were complaining that you say too much.

I'm also not a fan of how it is now re-showing when people do polls, quizzes, twitter/lastfm updates etc etc. You used to be able to filter out that stuff individually by clicking on an app and "dont show this" somehow, didnt you? I wasnt seeing *any* quiz/app rubbish.

Now its all I see in my feed and the only way to stop it seems to be to X the person completely into oblivion. Some of my friends appear ten or more times IN A ROW on my feed because theyve sent 82394782345 people a plant hatching a dinosaur egg or wtf ever.

Then again I only look at FB occasionally to see who else has decided to invite me to their party/engagement/wedding (srsly) via a FB event and not bothered to oh, I dont know, send an email... pick up the phone... send a proper invite...

is there any easier way to get to my events besides settings >>> application settings >>> events?

Huh. I just tried to add events as a tab, but it won't let me. :(

If you click 'applications' on the bottom left of the your home page you can drag events into the top 6 on the list. It will then appear as an icon on the bar at the bottom and it's only a click away.

I have to search for "events" in the search box in order to find them. What a pain. I hate it.

oh that helps, i hadn't even really noticed that bottom speedbar

There's a (hopefully official) application that allows people to vote yay or nay to the new design.

So far it's about 2,000 for to about 340,000 against.

the fbook redesign randomly coincided with me joining twitter and now i really can't get into it - like, don't even like clicking onto fbook, lose track of what i need to respond to there b/c everything isn't where it used to be. seriously though, i may or may not get used to it, but it was only a few months ago that they completely overhauled it - let the damn thing rest for a while! fucking fidgety computer nerds. leave us alone to click mindlessly away at your stupid site

There's a (hopefully official) application that allows people to vote yay or nay to the new design.

So far it's about 2,000 for to about 340,000 against.

Haha yeah I can't tell if it's official or not either - completely *due* to the weird changes. Either way, considering the way the site handled the terms of agreement dispute, I wouldn't be surprised if they switch back, or at least make significant un-changes.

In fairness, if you put every design change to a vote, nothing ever gets changed.

and that would be fine

i was being blase about it because it's only fbook, but ffs why is it so retarded now?

because you gotta keep in mind that 99 procent of the population is retarded.

It's over a million against now. It's really noticeably shit, too.

Am looking at all the other social networks to see if it's worth jumping ship, but they're mostly honking

I'm still happy with Livejournal - but it only works for me because of the network of friends who still use it regularly not just to blog, but to discuss stuff in depth and plan things.

All well out of the way of all the crappy fanfic and goth shit, too.

Am looking at all the other social networks to see if it's worth jumping ship, but they're mostly honking

Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?

I have to say I wasn't entirely sure what all the fuss was about with the new model. But the more I use it, the more I dislike it.

^ OTM. You can't even see when someone's posted on your wall now except through the notifications, which I mainly ignore because they're full of rubbish 'compare your friends' and 'join scrabulous' stuff. You have to actually go to your own profile to see it.

Also, yeah, the only option I get is to 'hide X person' - but it doesn't work. So I still get this one person with all their quizzes and stuff filling up my page. It really needs to go back to how it was just before this.

that's not true - your wall posts appear as messages in your feed like this: sender's name > (your name).

The most annoying thing is having to go to your requests page to see if you've got any event invitations. How hard would it be to put a notification of any unread ones at the top of the home page?

wait, are we using the same facebook? i have a line at the top of my homepage right now which says "you have 3 event invitations and one other request" until you respond to them.

Mine just tells me about friend requests. Maybe I need to adjust the settings.

I've just changed it so I get an email notification when I get a new invitation. That should make things easier.

that's not true - your wall posts appear as messages in your feed like this: sender's name > (your name).

Erm.. mine don't. I can see a few other people's though. I think it's not working properly though, as the 'hide' option seems a bit random.

the hide seems to take people off entirely, they've lost the "see less about" option, which is annoying, otherwise, functionally, it seems almost the same, the layout is just a bit different.

you don't get as many 'wrote on walls', 'became friends with', etc, and the thing on the right is shitty. it seems to change less, and there's less information, and it's pointlessly cluttered. don't need all those avatars.

It's shit because they've made it real-time. It used to store up what it thought what the things you'd be most interested in for your feed -- new friends of other friends, tagged friends and so on. Now it just dumps them all in a mess, as they happen. So if you miss stuff, it's gone.

They've changed it a bit this morning, though: birthdays are back up the top right

Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?
Yep, but this isn't nearly as big a problem as FB hopes it is. After FB opened its doors to the public, I remember Myspace emptying out in a matter of months.

there was a live feed option on old fb and that was better than what they have now.

yeah everytime someone adds photos to an album, you get notified so there's like three or four notifications of the same album on your feed IN ADDITION to the notifications on the right. it's just too much. and too many goddamn quizzes too.

i wasn't going to complain til i got used to the changes and now that i am, i have to say i do not like them, not at all.

Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?

Bring them here !!

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I'm gonna have to de-fan Ashley Tisdale.

So all these people who I went to grammar school/middle school with are now my fb friends. One of them just left a message asking what I've been up to. Oh in the last EIGHTEEN YEARS? I mean really, how do I even answer that?

'stuff'

Say you've been obsessing over curly-haired pigs from Hungary.

small talk is tough

um NO

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I just noticed they've added an option in the feed to "hide [insert annoying application name here]" rather than hiding an entire person.

farewell, LivingSocial updates.

Oh, THANK FUCK.

thank u for this info! getting app updates is really the only thing i hate about fb

except everyone is using slightly different versions of the same app.

I don't think that matters for LivingSocial, which is by far the worst offender.

Is there a way I can hide quiz results and dumb virtual gift giving?

Er, that's exactly what Salsa Shark is talking about. Click on Hide next to the shit in your news feed; tell it to hide that application. Repeat for everything that crops up and annoys you.

unfortunately it seems that each quiz is its own app

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Yeh, I'm beginning to notice this. Christ's teeth.

One of the more surreal features social networking has brought to our lives is the articulation of all kinds of social decisions. And by that I mean that before the enlightened age of the internet, when you no longer wanted to be friends with somebody or something like that, there was no conscious decision or effort behind it, necessarily. You just stopped trying to engage them, meet with them, keep up with how they are etc. You both just drifted apart, or something essentially vague and mutual - no responsibility for the friendship ending and thus no one's fault. This also left the door open for potential reconciliation ("I would've called you but I lost your number, let's hang out again soon"). But Facebook has made things weird, where now you formally have to think about whether someone deserves the "friend" label or, more intriguing, if someone deserves to be "de-friended." An articulated judgment takes place now.

It'd odd because if you're the kind of person that likes to keep a lean friends list e.g. you simply don't like the idea of that one eccentric co-worker you knew for about a week in 2006 keeping tabs on your social life via FB - you have to actually take a moment to consider the person in question in all their completeness and gauge the worth of keeping them as e-friends before purging them from your friends roster. It's all so weird!

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