Dammit Facebook! In another namby-pamby `I love all users' blog post, Facebook director of product Chris Cox gushed once again that the Excessively Democratic Republic of Facebook listened to voters. You caved.
He opened with the following user encomium: "Since we launched Facebook's home page design, we've received thousands of e-mails, Wall posts and comments from you along with direct feedback from all of our friends and family. Hearing what you have to say, whether criticism or praise, helps us build a product that serves you better." How precious. If you've already given us feedback, thank you. Get me the barf bag. There's just something about a company behaving like a democracy that bugs me. I'm used to Microsoft and IBM telling me what to do and liking it.
Maybe, I'm just too used to being abused by banks, insurance companies and large corporations to believe that what Facebook is doing is genuine. Live updating makes sense just the way Facebook users get notifications now (I presume). I wish Facebook would rationale news feeds so if you create a group, you could specify if your personal updates were mirrored in the group or groups. I have to admit, I like some of the new changes to old changes which are promised in the coming weeks. Or I wish they'd allow feeds into the groups (an automatic ITnews.com feed into the ITnews.com group on Facebook would be nice). And if Facebook would put my mug shot on every user's pages, it would really make me popular. If that's true, isn't this Tyranny of the Minority?
Our PC World story says that only 1% (by its count) of the Facebook users griped about the new home page. I liked the original changes and thought Facebook should have let them settle in for a while before coming up with new ones.
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