Facebook is a great utility with lots of great features, but there are also quite a few not so great features which aren’t hard to fix, and some features not present which shouldn’t be hard to add. This is my list, in no particular order. I’d love to hear from you for your ideas, or which ideas listed here that you’d like to see the most. Who knows? Maybe Facebook staff may actually listen to user feedback! 🙂
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Facebook Needs a Lose Friends Button, not a Find Friends Button
Facebook just introduced a Find Friends button as I write this. It’s a gradual roll out, I suspect, so others will have seen it before me and others still have yet to see it. They snuck the Find Friends button between your Profile and Account buttons in the upper right hand corner. But really, do Facebook users need such a button?
Really?
Facebook Now Announces Friends You Met at a FB Event, and How to Prevent This
Back in late October 2010, Facebook rolled out its new Friendship feature that allowed people to stalk others on Facebook at a whole new level. Now, you won’t even have to stalk people to know some things. Facebook will announce it to the world for you!
Now, if you were at an event listed on Facebook and met someone who later became Facebook friends with you, all of your Facebook friends will know about it! That also goes for all the Facebook friends of your new Facebook friend!
What used to be a generic announcement of something like John Deer is now friends with Jane Doe, now reads like John Deer and Jane Doe are now friends after both attending Jack’s Housewarming Party.
How to Leave your Facebook Status and Posts Higher on Friends’ Newsfeeds
Facebook’s Newsfeed of your Facebook friends’ posts scrolls with time as new ones are added, pushing old ones toward the bottom… sort of. It’s not quite that simple that new ones push old ones down. Facebook as a complex algorithm (math formula) that mixes things up a bit. So how do you beat this algorithm?
Post a Love Song a Day on Facebook – A Meme for February
Why?
Why, for love, of course!
But if that’s not a good enough reason, here are a few more reasons with real emotional, intellectual, social and psychological benefits, to you and all who can look at your Facebook Wall, unlike most other memes.
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