Comments on: Facebook Feeds: Good or Bad? http://www.ipatrix.com/1633/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/ Crossing Borders Crossing Cultures Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:20:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrixhttp://www.ipatrix.com/1633/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8040 Patrix Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:36:24 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/2006/09/06/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8040 <strong>Vidya</strong>, thanks for dropping by. I can understand why you add people to your friends list but then you must also understand that doing so allows that person to be privy to any personal information you choose to share on Facebook. The feed feels invasive because it simply puts all that information in one place and makes it easier to navigate. For a person strapped for time (like me), that is a godsend. Thus the "invasion of privacy" argument as you stated is not the real reason behind the protest. It is merely a change in the interface that users aren't comfortable with or haven't got a chance to get used to. I say, Facebook should make it optional say, let you switch off feeds so everyone gets what they want. Also, if you have noticed, when you update your profile and it pops up on your mini-feed, you can click on the 'x' on the right to hide it from others. Until then, you can also use <a href="http://evernex.com/facebook/" rel="nofollow">this javascript to wipe out all feeds</a>. Vidya, thanks for dropping by.

I can understand why you add people to your friends list but then you must also understand that doing so allows that person to be privy to any personal information you choose to share on Facebook. The feed feels invasive because it simply puts all that information in one place and makes it easier to navigate. For a person strapped for time (like me), that is a godsend.

Thus the “invasion of privacy” argument as you stated is not the real reason behind the protest. It is merely a change in the interface that users aren’t comfortable with or haven’t got a chance to get used to.

I say, Facebook should make it optional say, let you switch off feeds so everyone gets what they want. Also, if you have noticed, when you update your profile and it pops up on your mini-feed, you can click on the ‘x’ on the right to hide it from others. Until then, you can also use this javascript to wipe out all feeds.

]]> By: Vidyahttp://www.ipatrix.com/1633/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8036 Vidya Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:29:58 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/2006/09/06/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8036 I came across your blog via a link and found this post very interesting, since the facebook feed has become the topic de jour with me and my recently graduated college friends. While I agree that in the general sense, facebook is meant to be a way to connect with your friends and post information about yourself that you would like others to know, the culture of facebooking has become much bigger. My friends and I (and pretty much everyone I know that uses the facebook on a regular basis) friend, or facebook not only the people we are friends with (who are probably the people whose pages we frequent, whose picture albums we don't want to miss, etc) but also members of our sorority/fraternity/social club, athletic team, people who attended high school with us, acquaintances we make at a party, and those of the opposite sex that we are interested in at the time. Facebooking is a way of distinguishing not only our friends, but the people who we acknowledge as someone we know in some sort of fashion. Declining a friend invitation from someone we know from one of our circles is usually a way of showing our dislike for them. I think that the reason so many of us users are against the feed is that we don't want to know what our lab partner in freshman biology added to their list of favorite movies- we're friends with them to acknowledge our social connection. The amount of information the feed pushes in our faces feels invasive, and highlights every change made by every one of your friends- facts that have always been "public" but not necessarily noticed by anyone, which is where I think the "invasion of privacy" argument got started. Also some add it has taken away from the charm of facebook surfing, which was a great way to mindlessly waste time and delay studying for an upcoming midterm- the feed does it all for you. Anyways, find your blog interesting and sorry for making this so long, I just wanted to try to justify the blacklash beyond the obviously full of holes "it's invading our privacy" theory. I came across your blog via a link and found this post very interesting, since the facebook feed has become the topic de jour with me and my recently graduated college friends. While I agree that in the general sense, facebook is meant to be a way to connect with your friends and post information about yourself that you would like others to know, the culture of facebooking has become much bigger. My friends and I (and pretty much everyone I know that uses the facebook on a regular basis) friend, or facebook not only the people we are friends with (who are probably the people whose pages we frequent, whose picture albums we don’t want to miss, etc) but also members of our sorority/fraternity/social club, athletic team, people who attended high school with us, acquaintances we make at a party, and those of the opposite sex that we are interested in at the time. Facebooking is a way of distinguishing not only our friends, but the people who we acknowledge as someone we know in some sort of fashion. Declining a friend invitation from someone we know from one of our circles is usually a way of showing our dislike for them. I think that the reason so many of us users are against the feed is that we don’t want to know what our lab partner in freshman biology added to their list of favorite movies- we’re friends with them to acknowledge our social connection. The amount of information the feed pushes in our faces feels invasive, and highlights every change made by every one of your friends- facts that have always been “public” but not necessarily noticed by anyone, which is where I think the “invasion of privacy” argument got started. Also some add it has taken away from the charm of facebook surfing, which was a great way to mindlessly waste time and delay studying for an upcoming midterm- the feed does it all for you. Anyways, find your blog interesting and sorry for making this so long, I just wanted to try to justify the blacklash beyond the obviously full of holes “it’s invading our privacy” theory.

]]> By: Patrixhttp://www.ipatrix.com/1633/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8033 Patrix Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:11:34 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/2006/09/06/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8033 <strong>Chris</strong>, "news" isn't general news but news on your friends; information that they willing to put on their profile and share with others. The news feeds just collect it in one place. Chris, “news” isn’t general news but news on your friends; information that they willing to put on their profile and share with others. The news feeds just collect it in one place.

]]> By: Chrishttp://www.ipatrix.com/1633/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8032 Chris Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:13:21 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/2006/09/06/facebook-feeds-good-or-bad/#comment-8032 Facebook feeds are ridiculous and an invasion of privacy. Also, who needs news when you have aol or explorer. What stupid additions Facebook feeds are ridiculous and an invasion of privacy. Also, who needs news when you have aol or explorer. What stupid additions

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