Facebook "News Feed" Is Likely the Dumbest Thing Ever

Student Lounge College Life
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<p>Okay, maybe one of the dumbest things ever done on Facebook, to be specific, not "ever." But "News Feed" is not only generally useless, it's also intrusive and lame. </p>

<p>But do I really need to know that a friend just changed her "Favorite Book" section? Does anyone need to know that I just changed my status from "Eating" to "Studying" (it's called a cell phone or walking several yards to a friend's dorm room)? Do I need to know that Cindy just wrote on Katie's wall to say "Hey, how was your summer?" </p>

<p>Uh, no. Why should I care? Why would anyone care for their banal Facebook revisions and additions to be written out for people to read under the idiotic title of "News Feed." Even when the CNN scroll offers pap like "Infant Drives Pickup Truck One Mile" it's still more "news-y" than Chris added "GTA: Vice City" to his favorite activities section.</p>

<p>The worst part is, there's no way to put the "News Feed" under "private status" like your classes or your wall, if you wanted so. You can individually "hide" "News Items" so no one can see them taking up a huge chunk of space on your profile, but how annoying is that.</p>

<p>Anyone agree? Facebook is addictive enough, and profiles are revealing of personal info enough. Now our actions done while on Facebook are listed as well.</p>

<p>What's next? Being able to see who searches for you or looks at your profile on Facebook? Facebook is becoming a stalker's dream site.</p>

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<p>I agree. I don't like how everybody can know everything I do on there.</p>

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<p>I agree, it's extremely intrusive. If it just highlighted what a person changed, I'd be fine with that. Sometimes I play "where's the change" in people whose profile I know pretty well.</p>

<p>However, I don't like that it tells people that you posted on other's walls and stuff like that. Pretty soon it's going to say that you sent a message to someone and all that kind of stuff. </p>

<p>It's going to take some time to get used to it, and I'm going to be much more careful about what I do on facebook for the time being until I see how it plays out.</p>

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<p>I like that it tells you what has been changed in someone's profile, but I do agree that the rest of the info is a bit stalker-ish.</p>

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<p>How do you get rid of the Mini-feed.</p>

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<p>yea..im glad my friend and his girlfriend broke up(sarcastic)..that john wrote on sarahs wall, that I just declined going to an event, and that mary and joe are now friends!</p>

<p>it would be fine to see what I did on my home page but not what I and other people have done on their profile page...very intrusive.</p>

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<p>wow, this is ridiculously annoying. </p>

<p>they should let you choose what you want to be announced to others on the news feed. and get rid of the mini feed thing. ugh.</p>

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<p>send a msg to the person that created this useless feature...i think she has a blog on it</p>

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<p>AWFUL. Just leave it alone - the way it used to be worked perfectly fine.</p>

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<p>You just have to click the arrow and the minifeed closes. Jeez.</p>

<p>But yeah, if people complain they will change it back, that's what happened when they tried to get rid of the distinction between schools feature.</p>

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<p>ARGH. I wish facebook would stop screwing around with the format. The news-feed or whatever is pointless and kind of creepy.</p>

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<p>the minifeed closes but you can't control who else tries to close/leave it open, thats the problem.</p>

<p>my roommate already wrote to them</p>

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<p>I like it on my home page but not on my profile</p>

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<p>This is annoying to no end. Maybe we should start an "anti-News Feed" global group.</p>

<p>Edit:
Nevermind - there are already many of them. I'm joining /group.php?gid=2208470928.</p>

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<p>now everyone will know how often I update my profile :/</p>

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<p>great! my life is now perfect! I now know that my friend just added 6 new friends!</p>

<p>... and why does this matter?</p>

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<p>ok, I joined the anti-newsfeed group.
go join it!
<a href="http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208470928%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208470928&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Hilarious. I can't believe someone created a group so quickly. It already has over 200 members.</p>

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<p>Check out these anti-newsfeed groups too:</p>

<p><a href="http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207366340%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207366340&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208205703%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208205703&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Now the format looks all clunky and out of place. The old one was crisp and to the point. Who do I send an email/message/etc. to to complain about it?</p>