The New Facebook

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Facebook is now a mixture between friendfeed and twitter. You get videos, photographs, status messages and more from all your Real life friends networks. One of the most powerful new features is that by using the group feature we can now see our friends according to a number of settings. If I want to look for Uni friends I click on that list of friends. If I want twitter friends I press on that list. If I want Geneva friends and their status I’d press that and get the required information.

Now we’ll see a decline in facebook user time due to them not understanding it and not having the time to figure it out but within the next week or two they will use it more and more. The real time view also means that conversation will now be emphasised and help people in different geographic regions stay connected.

As my distaste for the way people use twitter grows ever stronger so the new facebook layout encourages me to engage with more of my real life friends there. It’s a big “see what you missed out on” to the twitter owners and their poor website implementation and innovation cycle. I was struggling to see a reason for being on twitter. That has just become stronger.


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One response to “The New Facebook”

  1. My first impressions were that the new FaceBook looks a lot like FriendFeed. I'm also noticing some other things in the new Facebook layout that apparently were not fully thought out prior to the new launch.

    I do like the features of FaceBook and Friendfeed where I can actually have a discussion/conversation in more than 140 characters.

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