Re:Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with ...
by yen223 on Monday April 22, 2013 @11:49AM
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I can only imagine the shitstorm that will happen when Facebook starts actively curating content for you...
Re:Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with ...
by probably_wrong on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:09PM
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They already do by default, but they are doing a pretty bad job. Unless you specifically set it to do so, you only get updates from the people Facebook considers you are interested in.
Re:Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with ...
by gknoy on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:22PM
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Right now, it's easy to either unfriend someone, or hide ALL of their stuff from your feed.
I'd prefer to be able to say things like, "Show me photos that X posts, but don't show me any of the web links that X posts".
I think this is a very outdated and anti-user way to approach the Facebook service, and I hope your idea of how these services work will be overthrown by better startups or a better Facebook.
I see it as simply:
* A failure of Facebook to figure out what I like seeing, which is shocking seeing as I literally "Like" the things I like seeing!
* A failure of Facebook to categorize input properly at the time of input.
If Facebook properly understood input, and properly understood what I like seeing, then "curation" wouldn't be an issue.
In light of those user experience failures on the part of Facebook, your opinion is "curate it yourself" but my opinion is "Facebook has failed when I curate it myself".
If I want to curate it myself, I won't use a walled garden feed system like Facebook...