This new news feed is awful. It’s all out of order, and people are missing. I heard you are guessing who my real friends are by noting whose updates I leave comments on. I really don’t think that’s your place. I can hide the friends I prefer not to read all by myself. Also, I prefer to see only status updates. There was an option for that before, but now, it takes two clicks EVERY TIME to get that view. And if I don’t bother? I have to see that so-and-so just saved a baby panda or found a lucky horseshoe or is going to die in 2043. You should know I don’t care. I just want status updates and I want them easy and I want them for ALL of my friends, not just the ones you think are important.
This “upgrade” may cost you some friends of your own, Facebook. You’re very close to losing me. Because as soon as this ceases to be fun, it ceases to be useful. Already, I click through to this site less often and I stay for less time. That’s bad for business, Facebook. You’re chasing away your own customers. But I’m frustrated with the constant changes, and I’m not the only one. I’ve never seen a site so frequently alter the way users have to interact with it on the most basic level. You should know that I’m a creature of habit. Anytime you force me out of my comfortable rut, you risk losing me altogether.
I’m ultimately a blogger, anyway. This was just a place to toss the one-liners and maybe connect with a few more readers. Leaving won’t break my heart, Facebook. That might be your fatal flaw: you think you are indispensable and can therefore get away with abuses no other major website would contemplate. But you’re not the only social network out there. You’re not the only way to connect.
Time is short, Facebook. My patience is at its end. Please reconsider your actions before it’s too late.
Sincerely,
A disenchanted “friend”.
So THAT is why I don’t see all of my friends anymore. Now I am steamed. Any easy way to tell them off? Is there a comments section for FACEBOOK??? Does Facebook have its own fan page. Maybe I’ll make a fan page for the old facebook view….
Thanks for enlightening me… I was confused and too busy to figure out the whys…
It kinda ticks me off too. I have lots of friends that I never leave comments for… that does not mean I don’t read them or want to hear from them.
HMPH!
Blessings
Christi
you tell em’… I’m with you.. myspace is starting to look more and more attractive… never happy with their changes, but this one is really really bad.. )=
This was the easiest way I could think of, Christi. I know they look for posts about themselves on the web.
I agree 100% Jennie. Not as much fun anymore and I don’t have time to look people up one by one to check a status. If I click on “home” several times I eventually get it all in order, it is different everytime I click though….UGH! Frustration for sure.
Jennie you hit it right on the mark. The new changes are more than annoying. They are downright awful!
Now it all makes sense.
So that’s what is going on… I only visit over there once a day at most but I was completely lost this last time! Hahaha… Ah well… I’ll keep blogging and tweeting. Those things don’t seem to change.
It’s really quite irritating. Facebook is how several of my groups of friends (who have moved all over the world) keep in touch. It’s really nice to be able to continue to carry on conversations with everyone at once. But, this is just frustrating.
I can’t stand the new facebook. It used to be great. This new garbage… well, garbage is the word!
I hear ya. I’m lost and confused and can’t find anything I’m trying to do! I just want old facebook back! I’ve been getting on there less and less the past couple of days just because I can’t figure out the new layout, and I don’t have time to try to.
I don’t so much mind the layout changes – I can find my way around, and some of them are a slight improvement. Others, not so much. I hadn’t noticed the feed issues yet, b/c I only just got switched yesterday. That will be frustrating, I’m sure. Probably not enough to get me to quit Facebooking, but frustrating.
My sentiments exactly! I do think, however, (at least I HOPE) that the feed issues might resolve once they stop messing around with the site. My husband works for an education-based internet software company, and I know that they are always working out kinks for a while when there are new and major changes uploaded to their sites.
I don’t like how OFTEN Facebook is making these changes…it’s ANNOYING!!
I found this on one of my friend’s statuses, and it worked: from HOME page scroll to bottom of page, click “Edit Options” ( to the right side ~ left side is “older posts”). Select NEWS FEED SETTINGS. reset 250 to 5000 for FB’s max. Friend limit. You also have to click on the link under the little box where you type “5000″ and select all your friends…it’s a pain, but it works…if you don’t do that part, then you will still only get the friend statuses they choose…weird, but true…
Have you been back bto FB? I was irritated the other day too – perhaps they were phasing in the new user interface – but it is MUCH better now! Easier to find friends’ updates and it appears you can even do a “live chat” with the friends that are currently on. Oh, and be sure to click on ‘Most Recent’ at the top when you’re looking at the News Feed, or check on the “Friends Statuses” on the left side.
An off-take on what Mandy said- I didn’t change how many friends I want to see, since I don’t have more than 250. But, I did go to the edit options button at the bottom of the page, and change which friends I wanted to see. It didn’t immediately improve. Yesterday, though, it was much better. I just went to look at the edit options, and it doesn’t have that ‘predictive’ friend thing. It’s just showing what friends are hidden, which is what it was before. So… Maybe they listened to all the complaining.