<p>Send in a "suggestion" at <a href="http://jhu.facebook.com/help.php?tab=suggest%5B/url%5D">http://jhu.facebook.com/help.php?tab=suggest</a></p>
<p>And I'm mad that it won't run on Internet Explorer 5 for Mac anymore. So much for old-browser friendly.</p>
<p>I agree, the news feed sucks. It takes up a ton of space for one thing, and I find it to be creepy.</p>
<p>It's so creepy.</p>
<p>Its so stupid. Seriously what kind of useless news is this? Stupid and intrusive</p>
<p>OMG, I feel like I'm stalking EVERYONE all the time now. Even people I don't really care about,facebook now feels the need to tell me how many friends they added or if they are no longer single. And to tell a bunch of people who probably don't care exactly how many new groups I have joined! It is WAY too much information and it needs to go away right now. It clutters up the page terribly too.</p>
<p>I think it's alright.</p>
<p>its soooo damn creepy. like i am literally afraid now. i dont need to know who just added who on facebook, its atrocious.</p>
<p>at least you can "hide story" and make your actipns not known to others. but its stll creepy</p>
<p>It makes stalking easy and fun for everyone.</p>
<p>where i can find 'hide story'?</p>
<p>just click x on any one of your little activities on your profile's minifeed thing.</p>
<p>The largest anti-newsfeed groups now has 80,000 members. An hour ago, it was at 70,000.</p>
<p>What group would that be?</p>
<p>The news feed is not a terrible idea -- at least, not bad enough to scrap altogether. They seriously need to reconsider what information is made available, however. As it stands, this is completely ridiculous.</p>
<p>Edit: Nevermind, found it. (gid=2208288769)</p>
<p>At first I hated it because it was so much information and seemed stalker-ish, but I'm getting to where I like it because I can see if my friends have changed their status and if they've changed anything major on their profile without having to dig through my friends page. Have the whole list of pictures that people have posted and partial journal entries still ticks me off a bit, and I don't really care if Jennifer took "The Wedding Date" off her list of movies, bit I do see where the newsfeed is useful.</p>
<p>No offense, HelloKiki, because I can understand what you might like about the NewsFeed, but I would prefer the Newsfeed be optional for those who would like to keep it, and completely "hide-able" for those who don't care for it.</p>
<p>And Facebook pre Sept. 5 automatically showed which friends had updated their profiles within the past weeks. As you said, you don't care if someone changed their favorite movie list. So what about a profile update do you really actually think is very useful and "major"? The "relationship status" thing? Can't you just ask a friend how things are going between him and so and so instead of waiting to figure out if they'll "officially" Facebook their relationship status?</p>
<p>Can't you just hang out with/AIM/talk on the phone with friends to see if something "major" has happened in their lives?</p>
<p>I didn't realize people used Facebook to such an extent.</p>
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I didn't realize people used Facebook to such an extent.
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More college students use the facebook everyday, than bathe everyday.</p>
<p>A couple of months back people who had a ton of friends (Charlie Rosenbury, JJ Redick, etc) were told by facebook that there was no way they could have that many friends, and that their non home school friends couldn't exceed 3000 or something like that. It was not because facebook decided that certain people shouldn't be popular, it just freed up a ton a bandwith by backdooring it. The same thing is happening with News Feed. Now people are only going to befriend actual friends, instead of everyone they had a class with, or met at a party or work. This is about saving facebook money and bandwidth, nothing to do with annoying the community. Some of the features of News Feed are interesting, but it does take the time per click value out of the website, as I am no longer going to search for things on people's profiles as long as I can see it on the News Feed.</p>
<p>I can't talk/AIM/hang out with my friends all of the time. Between class projects and my job, I can't really do anything with them right now!
Yes, Facebook used to tell you when your friends updated, but it didn't tell you what then had updated. Mostly I just want to know what my friends statuses are, and what events they are going to. The relationship thing doesn't really matter, as most of my friends are engaged or about to be engaged.<br>
I wasn't saying that everyone had to like the newsfeed, I was just saying that it does have it's place.</p>
<p>The largest anti-feeds group is now at over 270,000 members...make that over 290,000 members.</p>
<p>i hate this. im actually considering getting rid of facebook and going back to myspace as much as it kills me.</p>
<p>Also using the key word "intrusive."</p>