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While I do (mostly) agree with this article, it fails to mention the #1 reason why I never used it. I couldn't post something on someone else's page. I could po

While I do (mostly) agree with this article, it fails to mention the #1 reason why I never used it. I couldn't post something on someone else's page. I could post something to my "feed" and they could happen to see it. But I couldn't post something into their "feed" (wall, timeline) where all their friends could see it and then comment on it. It was more like Twitter than Facebook. Maybe I'm wrong, but too me they were marketing "Twitter with pictures" as "Facebook", and they fell short.

qwerty456127 7y ago
Indeed it was more like Twitter. Yet it was better than Twitter because it didn't have the severe post length limit and it would let you create channels (both private and open) for specific selection of people you invite to discuss a particular subject.
leadingthenet 7y ago
I never understood why you would want to do that. I also never see people do that on Facebook, is it an American thing?
- joncrane 7y ago
  Well Happy Birthday wishes is the big one. Other times there's like maybe an inside joke or a picture or an anecdote that you think that their friends would enjoy more than your friends. It's used way more by younger people, though.
  - sverige 7y ago
    Actually, the story I hear from people under 35 or so is that Facebook is for old people like me (mid-50s), though I've never used it. My wife does, though. It seems awful. My daughter and her friends all use Instagram and Snapchat, or probably something else now. They have dormant Facebook accounts they made when they were teens / early 20s that they've purged of all meaningful content.
    - joncrane 7y ago
      I mean the "post on another person's wall" functionality within FB, not FB itself.
Andrex 7y ago
> it fails to mention the #1 reason why I never used it In fact, that was mentioned: > Of course, Facebook’s news feed has many of the same design elements that I have described here, including ranking. However, important messages sent directly from one person to another have their own dedicated channel that works more like email, with strictly chronological ordering rather than ranking and with an explicit “mark as read” function. Ranking and algorithms are only used for nonessential postings. Though I suppose it's ambiguous whether he means someone's Wall/Activity Log or Messenger, I suppose, but I read it as the former.

qwerty456127 7y ago

Indeed it was more like Twitter. Yet it was better than Twitter because it didn't have the severe post length limit and it would let you create channels (both private and open) for specific selection of people you invite to discuss a particular subject.

leadingthenet 7y ago

I never understood why you would want to do that. I also never see people do that on Facebook, is it an American thing?

joncrane 7y ago
Well Happy Birthday wishes is the big one. Other times there's like maybe an inside joke or a picture or an anecdote that you think that their friends would enjoy more than your friends. It's used way more by younger people, though.
- sverige 7y ago
  Actually, the story I hear from people under 35 or so is that Facebook is for old people like me (mid-50s), though I've never used it. My wife does, though. It seems awful. My daughter and her friends all use Instagram and Snapchat, or probably something else now. They have dormant Facebook accounts they made when they were teens / early 20s that they've purged of all meaningful content.
  - joncrane 7y ago
    I mean the "post on another person's wall" functionality within FB, not FB itself.

Andrex 7y ago

> it fails to mention the #1 reason why I never used it In fact, that was mentioned: > Of course, Facebook’s news feed has many of the same design elements that I have described here, including ranking. However, important messages sent directly from one person to another have their own dedicated channel that works more like email, with strictly chronological ordering rather than ranking and with an explicit “mark as read” function. Ranking and algorithms are only used for nonessential postings. Though I suppose it's ambiguous whether he means someone's Wall/Activity Log or Messenger, I suppose, but I read it as the former.