Major Facebook changes coming: report
The world’s most popular social network is set to roll out some major changes to its user’s profile pages, a report suggests.
But what sort of changes? Is everything going to be moved around? Are you going to be confused and is your privacy at risk?
What can we expect? Details are scarce, but two sources told the blog that the changes will make profile pages more “sticky” and there is a very good chance that there may be music/media components involved.
Lastly, there is word that the new profiles will have an emphasis on “social ecommerce.”
So can these rumours be true? Or is it mostly fluff? I think there is some strong evidence here...
Lately, Facebook has been facing growing competition from Google, which has launched the Google+ social network and more recently, Google Wallet (a service to help shoppers make easy everyday transactions with their cellphones).
In what appears to be an attempt to make Facebook more like Google+, it launched new ‘Subscribe’ buttons allowing users to follow others without actually being “Friends.”
The rumour that Facebook will offer more music/media options is something that even the New York Times has covered as well.
Don’t forget, the more time users spend on Facebook than on other websites, the better. It wants everyone to discover and find neat websites and the hottest viral videos from Facebook, not from *cough* Google.
It’s not clear how well this “major” profile page change will go over with the nearly 700-million users on Facebook. Every time they make a single change, there is usually an outpouring of anger.
What do you think about the rumoured changes? What would you like to see different with Facebook?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
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Posted by: Bonnie Nagel | Sep 22, 2011 7:53:19 PM
Why not leave facebook relatively simple for new/inexperienced/now satisfied users? Those of us who use it to connect and communicate and share a few things about ourselves, are content with that, with minor up-dates to facebook.
Create another program, with another name, for use by people who want to share more history, photos, experiences, etc., with appropriate privacy and security options. It is becoming too time-consuming, to set who, what, where, and how, our own information may be seen. It's also unnecessary to break down relationships to categories so specific, and then have to decide who may see those cagtegories.
The plan, as I have seen, and read, is becoming overgrown, and if you remember flow-charts of the 1970's and '80's, this has the same complexity and complications.
Posted by: Bonnie Nagel | Sep 22, 2011 7:58:51 PM
Easy to find indexes, and glossaries, are beneficial, and crucial, for quick instruction, and help. Most of us prefer to find our own way through, and we should also be able to quickly ask a secure source, when in a hurry.
Posted by: Khrum | Oct 17, 2011 10:24:53 PM
why not just blow the site so we dont have to hear from it anymore.
only stupid dummy idiots use those site.
virtuality dont replace the humain touch.
cant call?
cant come to visit?
hell stay away then.