Facebook lets users have separated social, er, Circles Facebook slotted a new feature into the ubiquitous social network yesterday that immediately got the blogosphere arguing over whether the company was copying Google+ and its people-curating Circles function. Zuckerberg's people were quick to point out that Facebook was here way before Google got into the networking biz. " …
Ignoring the fact that these lists have been part of Facebook for some time and all that's changed is they're now easier to access and edit. Are you seriously trying to suggest Google invented ordering your contacts by social groups? Every email program I've used since the 90's has come with at least the basic work, friends, and family categories to organise my contacts into.
They've stopped you being able to "hide" updates from your Pages. Like many others, I've said I "liked" things as I thought it would help my FB friends buy me birthday presents and the like - not because I expected constant updates from every bloody band and product I like in my news feed. In the past you could, with a bit of faffing around, hide these posts when you saw them - an option which has recently been switched off.
Each day it seems I'm closer to getting so annoyed that I'll leave for good. In the meantime I think I'll just "unlike" everything.
If people would bother to check privacy settings, Facebook has had this for ages. At least for a year i've been able to assign different friends to different groups and limit that group to what they could see by using Custom rights.
I've separated out casual acquaintances and put them in a group that has limited access to my profile already.
I've not checked out the 'new' feature yet, i hope they haven't messed anything up.
For years in fact.
I was appalled at how many people I knew where amazed that with G+ you suddenly had 'streams' and effectively security groups defining who could see what, and absolutely refused to believe that FB had ha dit for ages as well.
Especially the Mountain View Fanbois refused to believe that it wasn't Google that invented it.
/sigh
/wrists
Maybe FaceBook has had separate lists of users for years, but hardly anyone knew about it or used it. So it was a system that had good features, but so hard to use that nobody bothered with it. Then G+ came along and made it intuitive and easy. They didn't invent them, but if nobody could use the features before, then they may as well have.
A bit like smartphones and iPhones. iPhones made the already existing features easier to use. They didn't invent them, but ....etc
someday fb hosed up and exposed the names of a user's lists. For example, imagine the huge embarrassment resulting from exposure of such lists:
-- people I cheated on
-- people who gave me STDs
-- people who piss me off
-- people i can't bring myself to delete
-- people who i gave STDs
-- people i wanna sha*, shackle, or gag
-- laid a few times, but never will again
-- assholes who don't repay me
-- sluts
-- dickhead boss
-- people not to mix up lies with
-- i have a crush but refuse to blush
-- bitch pissed me off
-- other embarrassing titles..
Yep, Top Stories only is shite, I've complained 3 times about it. And I thought it was only me and my paranoia. Why is this crap forced on us? I won't accept it and will be off.
I did create a new account and normal FB behaviour was restored. Except I can't be arsed to do that all the time. So begone, FB, unless you revert.
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