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How Facebook is losing it's essence?

17 points by _tarak_ 15y ago

Arkid 15y ago
Possible duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955
wccrawford 15y ago
"The very essence of Facebook was to recreate the joys of college life in the virtual space." Maybe back when it first started. It hasn't been the 'essence of Facebook' for a long time now. They've evolving, as they need to if they want to stay in the lead.
- Arkid 15y ago
  Yes, but getting all celebrity junk into the timeline would sort of kill all the fun. It may just go the myspace way.
  - trustfundbaby 15y ago
    a. Why not just unsubscribe from it if it bothers you so much? b. Facebook is not afraid to change stuff that isn't working, so I have confidence that they'll tweak that feature as the usage patterns dictate
    - Arkid 15y ago
      You can unsubscribe from the celebrity news and stuff but your friends will end up sharing as they would have subscribed to the celebrity junk. You can't do much about that.
      - innes 15y ago
        Get new friends, or block the ones who do that.
        joelrunyon 15y ago
        This. Don't follow/friend/circle people you don't want to keep in touch with or hear updates on. It's that simple.
      - deleted 15y ago
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        pavel_lishin 15y ago
        You can hide them without defriending them - they won't even know, if you're worried about hurting their feelings. If you can't tell a friend, "Sorry, but what you repost is of no worth to me", how good of a friend are they?
      - nbm 15y ago
        You can also partially unsubscribe from friends that share celebrity news. Moving them into the "Acquaintances" list means you'll only get their more "important" updates. Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their profile page for the same effect. You might want to do that if you share status updates or set privacy for your personal information like phone number and address to "Friends except Acquaintances" and this friend isn't actually an acquaintance and should get that stuff. Unfortunately, if you want to both "see everything" and "avoid celebrity news", there isn't a solution to that at the moment.
pnathan 15y ago
Well, Facebook corp enroached on my privacy, and apps spammed my feed with useless crud. People posted high noise, low signal updates. So I left.
- Arkid 15y ago
  A lot of people will gradually leave because of such junk.
cruise02 15y ago
Totally beside the point, but "How Facebook is losing its essence" is a statement. You've analyzed the situation and you're going to tell me what's happening. Following that statement with a question mark just tells me that you're frightened of sharing your opinion. Don't make a bold statement if you're just going to wimp out and make it a question.
- Arkid 15y ago
  Point taken. The title of the post has been updated.

17 points by _tarak_ 15y ago

Arkid 15y ago

Possible duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955

"The very essence of Facebook was to recreate the joys of college life in the virtual space." Maybe back when it first started. It hasn't been the 'essence of Facebook' for a long time now. They've evolving, as they need to if they want to stay in the lead.

Arkid 15y ago
Yes, but getting all celebrity junk into the timeline would sort of kill all the fun. It may just go the myspace way.
- trustfundbaby 15y ago
  a. Why not just unsubscribe from it if it bothers you so much? b. Facebook is not afraid to change stuff that isn't working, so I have confidence that they'll tweak that feature as the usage patterns dictate
  - Arkid 15y ago
    You can unsubscribe from the celebrity news and stuff but your friends will end up sharing as they would have subscribed to the celebrity junk. You can't do much about that.
    - innes 15y ago
      Get new friends, or block the ones who do that.
      - joelrunyon 15y ago
        This. Don't follow/friend/circle people you don't want to keep in touch with or hear updates on. It's that simple.
    - deleted 15y ago
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      - pavel_lishin 15y ago
        You can hide them without defriending them - they won't even know, if you're worried about hurting their feelings. If you can't tell a friend, "Sorry, but what you repost is of no worth to me", how good of a friend are they?
    - nbm 15y ago
      You can also partially unsubscribe from friends that share celebrity news. Moving them into the "Acquaintances" list means you'll only get their more "important" updates. Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their profile page for the same effect. You might want to do that if you share status updates or set privacy for your personal information like phone number and address to "Friends except Acquaintances" and this friend isn't actually an acquaintance and should get that stuff. Unfortunately, if you want to both "see everything" and "avoid celebrity news", there isn't a solution to that at the moment.

pnathan 15y ago

Well, Facebook corp enroached on my privacy, and apps spammed my feed with useless crud. People posted high noise, low signal updates. So I left.

Arkid 15y ago
A lot of people will gradually leave because of such junk.

cruise02 15y ago

Totally beside the point, but "How Facebook is losing its essence" is a statement. You've analyzed the situation and you're going to tell me what's happening. Following that statement with a question mark just tells me that you're frightened of sharing your opinion. Don't make a bold statement if you're just going to wimp out and make it a question.

Arkid 15y ago
Point taken. The title of the post has been updated.