GaryK
msg:3873916 | 2:24 am on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I found an article in the Chicago Tribune that confirms what you're reporting. | Where Facebook users used to be asked what they were doing, prompted with their name followed by a space to finish the sentence, now there's a question: "What's on your mind?" And the "stream" below is a collection of what others in your network have on their minds. Kind of like Twitter. |
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ADDED: Google facebook status for the article. It's currently the first result. :) [edited by: GaryK at 2:26 am (utc) on Mar. 19, 2009]
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maximillianos
msg:3874189 | 12:43 pm on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I think the status thing got kind of old... Most folks were out of date a few hours after they posted a "status". I know mine always was. So from that perspective I like the new feature better... It is a snap shot of what you are doing/thinking at that moment... and it lives on in other folks feeds... I think it works much better and just makes more sense...
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Kings on steeds
msg:3874202 | 1:01 pm on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
they dont seem to have updated the chat though, you can still see peoples last comment as their "status" and you even get the old box with your first name in ready for a status from you, although that then does go into the stream aswell... but is preaty much the same, wonder if this will get updated or remain 'old skool'?
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nealrodriguez
msg:3874280 | 2:33 pm on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
twitter ninja-ed the status functionality in its entirety; they're focus on a single facet of online communication is propelling them to social prepotency.
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Seb7
msg:3874387 | 4:08 pm on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
There has been some talk for a while about Facebook becoming more like Twitter.
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JS_Harris
msg:3874429 | 5:13 pm on Mar 19, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I think asking what you were doing was a limited question, asking what you are thinking about covers a lot more territory. "is about to do the dishes" just isn't as exciting as "I'm thinking about renting Tarzan with Bo Derek in it, should I?". As for being like Twitter, it's clear that instant audience is the goal for 2010.
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Seb7
msg:3875237 | 3:41 pm on Mar 20, 2009 (gmt 0) |
ok, after a few days of using this latest version of Facebook, I think they have made a few mistakes. Changes the status, well its ok. But this new layout for the home page is just not doing it for me at all. It used look quite interesting, almost news like with bold large photos within your home page making an interest browse, now it just looks like a database entry list of too much the same, cant be bothered to read past the first few entries. I'm sure these new changes will be reflected badly in their user stats.
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aspdaddy
msg:3875847 | 12:21 pm on Mar 21, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I guess they have to keep changing it to grow and making it more like twitter is one way to quickly grow
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GaryK
msg:3875952 | 3:38 pm on Mar 21, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Has Facebook ever had a serious worldwide outage like Twitter did last night (US East Coast Time)?
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