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So is this a growing pain or a sign that Facebook will soon fall? This reminds me of back when search engines were just full of keyword stuffing related spam or

So is this a growing pain or a sign that Facebook will soon fall? This reminds me of back when search engines were just full of keyword stuffing related spam or when MySpace turned into a hangout for creeps and everyone's profile looked like a GeoCities site from 1997. Frictionless sharing is good in theory but the execution is annoying and the posts it generates are not relevant to you more often than not. The way I see it they can go in one of two directions: they can tell the collective user base to suck a fat one and "get used to it, you'll learn to like it" or they can modify frictionless sharing in a way that decreases annoyances like app installs and only shows you stuff that's relevant to what you want to see. That way they can move forward with this cool idea and just perfect it instead of back pedaling and looking somewhat bad. Facebook already has the capability to do so much more than what it seems on the face of it. I wish I remembered the link but they have this piece of JavaScript that can show you who you've been Facebook stalking. To me that's impressive, maybe I'm kind of an a,after for thinking that way. The point is that they have the tools and the skill to. Perfect the frictionless system just like Google was able to rid itself of spam for the most part and become known as the one search engine that provided truly relevant results. Let's hope they go that way. I don't really like Facebook but I wish them success anyway.

marquis 15y ago
The Guardian link situation is scaring some of my non-tech friends who have no idea what is happening, and why their read links are showing up for the rest of the us to read. That and the fact that more spam is showing up (a male friend was embarrassed last week when it showed a pornographic link on his page, though perhaps his wife was more embarrassed and none of them knew how to make it go away so I flagged it for them). I feel I've become something of a watcher on my friend's pages lately and providing advice on how to protect them - I've even gone so far as to create a fake account so I can monitor for them what is public and what isn't (they take comfort in my screenshots that their posts are actually private). It really is getting to the point where facebook has to address this properly or many of us are going to bail.

marquis 15y ago

The Guardian link situation is scaring some of my non-tech friends who have no idea what is happening, and why their read links are showing up for the rest of the us to read. That and the fact that more spam is showing up (a male friend was embarrassed last week when it showed a pornographic link on his page, though perhaps his wife was more embarrassed and none of them knew how to make it go away so I flagged it for them). I feel I've become something of a watcher on my friend's pages lately and providing advice on how to protect them - I've even gone so far as to create a fake account so I can monitor for them what is public and what isn't (they take comfort in my screenshots that their posts are actually private). It really is getting to the point where facebook has to address this properly or many of us are going to bail.