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Facebook Magically Transforms Into Twitter
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by Truemorist | March 16, 2009 at 07:00 pm
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Why lock yourself down when you can free yourself completely? Who needs arcane wall posts and private messaging when your digital persona can be displayed for all to see?
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Facebook took a big fat bite out of Twitter's 140 character-filled book by switching up FB's design last week into a decidely tweet-esque lifestream of large format status updates. Then, on Monday, Mark Zuckerberg's social media monolith took its format-biting a step further by introducing a new privacy option that allows Facebook users to make everything they do available to anyone and everyone at any time.
So much for users' reactionary complaints about their existing lack of privacy on the site, now they can abandon the notion of privacy altogether, in order to spend more time arguing over whether or not there's really any difference between 'friends' and 'followers'.
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at 19:30 on March 16th, 2009
Hmm ... I think it's time to go back into my privacy settings, and lock em up a bit. Each to their own, but I personally don't like friends of friends (and friends of friends of friends, etc.) seeing personal messages and pics.
at 23:47 on March 16th, 2009
I find the new facebook to be utterly confusing altogether. There's just too much information and clutter on the homepage... nothing seems relevant to me anymore.
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Guitar Today (not verified)at 04:53 on March 17th, 2009
It seems to me if people really want privacy they could always.. oh say... not post things on the internet? Seems like a no brainer..
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Nathanael Gerber (not verified)at 23:36 on March 17th, 2009
Well... my reaction to this shift is hardly so uncomfortable... They haven't actually changed all that much functionally - the core filter features for the homepage wall are actually a lot clearer and usable than the previous interface. The 'tweeterness' really is a subtle graphic shift more than anything (mostly the new font), and the new privacy option is hardly a neglect of users privacy concerns - (it is voluntary) - and its the kind of thing that the average user doesn't even know they have the option to use anyway... Don't forget that FB has always had the option for you to follow your friends Statuses on your mobile phones (just like Twitter)... its nothing new...
Even if FB dwarfs Twitter with its more functional social utility - Friend vs Follower... the two will still be distinct... I think the beauty of Twitter is the fact that it provides limited but effective mass engagement. Last I checked FB limited friend's lists to 5,000 ppl. Twitter - in contrast - has full companies tracking comments from their entire demographic across the continent. Pretty different animal.
All in all, I'm very happy to see Facebook evolving. I think the crew is displaying a strong sense of vision right now.