the failure is mixing news and photos. people subscribed to each other to see their status/away message and vacation/baby photos. then sharing/reposting "news

the failure is mixing news and photos. people subscribed to each other to see their status/away message and vacation/baby photos. then sharing/reposting "news" to your timeline became easier. its easier to press share than it is to create content. by virtue of "the time it takes to propogate something vs make something" sharing became the default, and by volume, most common behavior on facebook. I use facebook to follow news sources, like an ai driven feed reader, and I use messenger to stay connected to people. I dont stay connected to people by watching what they post to their timeline. In my post you replied to, I said it WAS a product failure, that they moved the goal post of what a like/wall/share was. If they had built NEW features instead of adapting old ones, this situation would be different. Instead they reappropriated the wall as the "share this article" space, and the like as the follow. Facebook f'd up by overlaying a twitter clone onto their existing product, instead of building it as an additional component/page/module/feed.