Facebook, if you don’t start listening to me, I’m breaking up with you!
I’ve had a love affair with Facebook for almost two years now. My husband doesn’t much mind because it keeps me busy and I’ve been able to generate new friendships and rekindle old friendships. I’m sad to say, though that the love affair is getting close to over. Why?
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Simple really–Facebook has stopped listening to me and is doing all sorts of things without consulting me on what I want. Let’s face it–I’m their target market. I spend countless hours online finding just the right things to post to my profile. I even have the Facebook application on my iPhone. I have hundreds of pictures, thousands of posts, thousands of friends. In fact, I’m ranked 98.5 out of 100 for Facebook users per Grader.com.
I’m not alone. there is a new Facebook group called “CHANGE FACEBOOK BACK TO NORMAL” 1,200,000+ members. The real issue is this…over the last bit time Facebook has actually changed some the things that we’ve come to rely on and use. The most recent wave of changes have more to do with the news feed and the live feed. I don’t particularly like that Facebook is deciding which particular people end up my newsfeed.
Can you say Facebook fail?? It’s even more infuriating that there isn’t even a little note– hey here are your some changes. Let me tell you how it affects you or if you don’t like these changes let us know. It’s like waking up in your room and finding out somebody has moved all your furniture.
Maybe because what I do for living is marketing, I’m even more surprised. If I had a website with tens of millions of users who showed up almost every day and stayed there, I’d be pretty sure to ask these guys what you think of this or what you think of that, and get a consensus before I made a huge change.
I hope Facebook gets the message and doesn’t turn irelevant like MySpace did. I really don’t want to break up but I will if they don’t start listening.
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The question is why does Facebook need to ask. You don\\\’t pay for the service. I am not defending their changes with no user input. Just a thought. Truthfully the changes this recent round were not (my opinion) as dramatic as the last round.
I think as users we need to define WHAT we want FB to do. How it could work better rather than simply be against what changes they make. No C.A.V.E. (citizens against virtually everything) people.
My question to you, perhaps a blog post from you… (and I will do the same) is what is the future of FB and where do we as users want it to go. Let\\\’s hold their feet to the fire and explain WHY the most recent round of changes and then… where do we WANT this to go.
Just my thoughts… Love ya! I will give you a call this weekend and give you an update on my goings on…
Your point is well taken, but do keep in mind, I, as a user do make them money. I click on ads, have clients set up Facebook ads, and although I don’t pay for the service, their success depends on me and people like me…
Look forward to hearing an update Brendan.
Another funny and informative article! What more can I say? Um, actually, I could probably go on forever, but it’s time for bed
You’re headed to the top!!! Keep ‘em coming…..
Always Love,
Joey Buddha aka Joey Goodman
As mentioned by another, since Facebook is a free service, they can do what they want. The jumbling things up probably has more to do with Facebook trying to figure out how they can make money, especially since to date they still operate on seed money. I believe the changes apply more to fan pages since many businesses have been able to monetize their Facebook presence.