DISQUS

Michael Sprague · 10 months ago

Cool stuff.

Dave do you think the live feed will be better for 3rd parties that publish stories to their users social graphs?

Karen Rands · 10 months ago

Great News. Sounds like TweetDeck meets FaceBook. I struggle with sending out info info that I want to keep separate between my business contacts and my personal contacts. Of course you guys would stay ahead of the game and keep facebook a very relevant medium.

mojaam · 10 months ago

Sounds and looks good. With all this new content people are going to be sharing, I'm hoping that the "like" feature will be more useful than it is right now.

bruce b · 10 months ago

I just got a computer the other day, and I have no idea what face book is. Can I get the rip van winkle update please?

Frankie Warren · 9 months ago

Hey Dave,

Just out of curiosity, will the new publisher / status messages force you to begin with your name as is currently the case?

matt wright · 9 months ago

I think facebook is great and I like the new facebook too. Im just searching for a space to make my request/suggestion.

Im a keen tennis player and id really like an application where we can set up a table [perhaps with pictures of your friends] and a clickable link so that you can click on the players picture and then write on his wall challenging him/her for a game. depending on who wins we can enter in the details of who won and see our picture go up or down on the table depending on whos the best or worst in club.

its transferrable to squash, badmington, basketball leagues and football leagues and more probably.

I appologise for the slightly off topic comment.

applo · 9 months ago

My single biggest annoyance with the new interface is that filtering of the stream can only be done by either people, or applications you have installed.

I can't seem to block out applications I don't have installed, and if I find them annoying then it seems counter-intuitive to install them so I can block them, especially if I don't want to share my information with them. The other alternative is to block people, but then I won't see any of their information which is obviously not what I want - I just don't want to see their application stuff.

Is there a solution to this, or am I missing something...?

davemorin · 9 months ago

No, this is great feedback! Thank you!

David Sedgwick · 9 months ago

Finally, a place where developers seem to give actual feedback. The new homepage is a real pain. What is supposed to be real time updates are not, because one has to constantly refresh their browser to see the updates. The amount of info in the feed is to much. I'm, and a lot of my friends, are having a hard time finding what we want to read in the feed. The filters are just non functional. You either have to make a bunch of little friend lists or totally remove people from the stream. I have tried the new homepage over the weekend and still find it a nonfunctional interface. The old homepage never gave me eyestrain and the new one does.

A choice between the two would have been nice. Instead we just get a twitter-feed, which by the looks of it a majority of people don't like. Some type of public feedback from facebook would be nice. I've been to Mark's page and Facebooks page and neither one has been updated since friday. Just more and more people with comments of how bad it is.

Kris · 9 months ago

To be honest, I found it easier to keep track of my friends' updates with the old interface. Now, it seems too busy. Keeping a tab on good friends becomes tedious as you have to navigate your way through all of the messages, notes, and other miscellaneous info. The previous interface seemed clean, organized, and well thought out. As an example, its as if you've taken specific sections of an organized binder and thrown them all together in no particular order and said "here you go. now its your job to reorganize, read, and comprehend it". I know that no matter how much fuss people make about the new layout change won't happen. Like David Sedgwick said, it'd be nice to have the choice between layouts. In my opinion (and I think many others), facebook has taken a step back in its development.

Sam Khan · 9 months ago

Could you please take a note of this: http://apps.facebook.com/layoutvote/

There are a few people who like the new layout. But over a million people think designers at facebook are simply daft!

You have to incorporate a "go back to old version" button before people start giving up on facebook.

mcwee · 9 months ago

I've been fantasizing about ideas for Facebook, and wasn't sure where to post them but this seems like it might be a good place? You've probably thought of all of these ideas before, but I just wanted to express my support of them.

-I like how the information we receive in the feed can now be filtered based on different groups, but on the flip side, I wish we could choose what information we present to different groups. In each status update, post, etc it'd just be nice to have a "post to all friends" v. "post to close friends" option.

-This kind of connects to the idea of having multiple profiles, ie. a semi-public profile, intimate profile, and private profile, to cater how our identity changes with different groups. Having a single profile becomes a problem in terms of both maintaining an appropriate level of privacy and a dynamic identity. On the other hand, some may argue that a single profile might force us to integrate our different identities and could amount to self-actualization...

-A private profile would also solve the problem of the often embarrassing past. At least for me, I feel guilty deleting old profile pictures, tagged photos, etc because they are part of my past. But, I don't always want people to see them. A private profile would solve this problem by allowing me to fine-tune and edit my public profile, but keep the past photos in my private profile as a sort of scrap book.

-This also brings me to another idea: a sort of Facebook version of the Mac "Time Machine". It'd be cool to go back in time and see what my profile looked like three years ago. And, what did my news feed look like this time last year? It'd also be cool to give friends the option to look at each other's past profiles.

-On a completely different note, many people like to detag photos so that they can have a variety or simply hide bad photos of them, but this is at the risk of seeming like a jerk. There should be difference between detagging and hiding a photo so that you can remove it from the "photos of me" section but still have your name in the original photo.

That is all, good work so far and good luck!

WHITperson · 9 months ago

Dave, I actually really like the idea of Facebook adding some more Twitter-like characteristics to the profile pages. While FB certainly shouldn't take all its cues from Twitter, I think there are a few Twitter key features that FB could emulate that might really take off--mainly, the use of hash tags for topics and the @username coding to tag a specific friend. I have a longer explanation of this on my site (www.whitperson.com), but if you're a frequent Twitter user, you probably already know all about these. Facebook isn't Twitter (and it certainly doesn't need to be), but it could pick and choose the best Twitter features and implement them with some really interesting results.

cheers, mw

bobbylerz · 6 months ago

Hi Dave,

Searched for a way to contact (directly) someone at FaceBook for a long time. You guys are well hidden! I hope you can help me out with a very important question/favor.

Last week my girlfriend (and employee) passed away tragically. She was wonderful, kind and sweet. So many people miss her. She and I enjoyed playing with FB all the time. So many of her friends and family used FB as a way to connect with her. And after she passed, so many of us take comfort in knowing that a tiny bit of her lives on through her FB page. I know I go there everyday.

What happens if someone does not log on to FB for a very long time? Does their page just go-away? Is there anything that can be done to keep her page alive for a long time?

Her name is Dawn Anderson. There are a few on FB so reference the one in MY friend list. Her profile picture is a little Mets mascot. Would you do hundreds of us a huge favor and talk to me about this? Or forward this to someone who can help?

On behalf of Dawn, myself, and so many people who love and miss her I thank you for taking the time to read this.

Bobby Lerz

amberbowden · 4 months ago

Dave,

Why does FB constantly disable accounts without making clear to users why they have been disabled. My account recently got disabled because I posted about my product MedTrakker (A Cancer Medical Organizer for patients to help them organize their treatment care journey), to some Cancer groups I belong too. I posted on the open forum not to any individual. This was not spam, and is not considered spamming being that it is an open group. Maybe you could help me in getting my account reactivated. Because no one at FB is responding to any emails I send.

lauragemme · 3 months ago

We have a nonprofit FaceBook page, but then didn't knwo anything about the Intel Facebook Challenge until today (too late to get nominated). How do we get on a "list" to be informed about future nonprofit challenges linked with FaceBook?