How Facebook is losing it's essence?(microreviews.org)
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How Facebook is losing it's essence?
http://microreviews.org/how-facebook-is-losing-its-essence/
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Yes, but getting all celebrity junk into the timeline would sort of kill all the fun. It may just go the myspace way.
a. Why not just unsubscribe from it if it bothers you so much?
b. Facebook is not afraid to change stuff that isn't working, so I have confidence that they'll tweak that feature as the usage patterns dictate
You can unsubscribe from the celebrity news and stuff but your friends will end up sharing as they would have subscribed to the celebrity junk. You can't do much about that.
You can also partially unsubscribe from friends that share celebrity news. Moving them into the "Acquaintances" list means you'll only get their more "important" updates.
Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their profile page for the same effect. You might want to do that if you share status updates or set privacy for your personal information like phone number and address to "Friends except Acquaintances" and this friend isn't actually an acquaintance and should get that stuff.
Unfortunately, if you want to both "see everything" and "avoid celebrity news", there isn't a solution to that at the moment.
Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their profile page for the same effect. You might want to do that if you share status updates or set privacy for your personal information like phone number and address to "Friends except Acquaintances" and this friend isn't actually an acquaintance and should get that stuff.
Unfortunately, if you want to both "see everything" and "avoid celebrity news", there isn't a solution to that at the moment.
Get new friends, or block the ones who do that.
This. Don't follow/friend/circle people you don't want to keep in touch with or hear updates on. It's that simple.
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Totally beside the point, but "How Facebook is losing its essence" is a statement. You've analyzed the situation and you're going to tell me what's happening. Following that statement with a question mark just tells me that you're frightened of sharing your opinion. Don't make a bold statement if you're just going to wimp out and make it a question.
Point taken. The title of the post has been updated.
Possible duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955
Maybe back when it first started. It hasn't been the 'essence of Facebook' for a long time now.
They've evolving, as they need to if they want to stay in the lead.