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There ARE explanations. People just ignore them. Aemon Send a noteboard - 23/09/2011 04:19:10 PM
The first time these features show up on your page, you get little popup boxes explaining what's going on, with "click here for more info" options. People usually just impatiently dismiss those boxes so they can get on with their Facebooking though. And I can understand that. However, instead of complaining, it would be nice if people would take the time to educate themselves on how things work. Which is, by the way, very easy to do. Blog.facebook.com explains the changes very well, as do the top 5000 or so results that come up searching Google for "Facebook changes" or whatever. :P

Anyway. I totally understand that change is hard, and that not everyone will like every change. That's fine. I just get annoyed when the vast, vast majority of complaints people have are made in ignorance, and are totally off-base.

I'm one who never had a problem clicking on "recent news" to get things in the order I prefer when it came up as top news instead. Now I have to either scroll or click multiple times to get what I already had before.


No, you still only have to click once. When you have top news as well as recent news to view (such as you might have after not visiting the site for a day or so) the very top link on your feed says "3 recent items" (or something along those lines). Clicking that link scrolls your feed down to the beginning of the recent items. I'd post a screenshot, but I've visited FB recently so I don't have the link at the moment.

But yeah, should just be one click.

And they really need to stop using "e-mail me all of this! I CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH MEANINGLESS AND REDUNDANT E-MAILS!!!!" as the default setting for everything :P


I agree that it's very annoying that they seem to reset a lot of your defaults every time they change. I'm not sure there's any good justification for that. They ARE trying to improve the email overload, though. Most users should have been sent (via email, ironically :P) the following notification a couple days ago:

"We're trying out a new feature to reduce the amount of email you receive from Facebook. Starting today, we are turning off most individual email notifications and instead, we'll send you a summary only if there are popular stories you may have missed. You can turn individual emails back on and restore all your original settings at any time."
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~ surveyish: Facebook - 22/09/2011 04:16:10 PM 1072 Views
Re: ~ surveyish: Facebook - 22/09/2011 04:21:23 PM 734 Views
Have you seen the status update addressing this? - 22/09/2011 04:37:34 PM 758 Views
Thanks for your answers - 22/09/2011 04:53:02 PM 604 Views
You're on Facebook? - 22/09/2011 04:28:42 PM 735 Views
I have to lurk around on the net somewhere - 22/09/2011 04:54:54 PM 667 Views
My answers: - 22/09/2011 04:30:07 PM 768 Views
Re: My answers: - 22/09/2011 04:57:35 PM 712 Views
Free. . .well, sort of. - 23/09/2011 03:08:45 PM 762 Views
Wait, who are you again? Didn't you fade away or something? - 22/09/2011 04:33:31 PM 749 Views
you can disable the email thing you know - 22/09/2011 05:51:18 PM 763 Views
3 *NM* - 22/09/2011 04:57:34 PM 416 Views
Re: I dislike the crowding on the right hand side. It moves too quickly. - 22/09/2011 05:23:43 PM 778 Views
You CAN decide what makes it into top stories. - 23/09/2011 03:14:22 PM 766 Views
I didn't eve notice until my pointed it out *NM* - 22/09/2011 05:30:00 PM 381 Views
people get rillled up about the stupidest things - 22/09/2011 05:40:32 PM 627 Views
Bacefook - 22/09/2011 05:50:01 PM 713 Views
people complain too much - 22/09/2011 06:29:31 PM 827 Views
it's a free site. The owners can do what they want. - 22/09/2011 06:37:02 PM 881 Views
The most important answer. - 22/09/2011 06:49:16 PM 766 Views
No; no; yes *NM* - 22/09/2011 10:59:32 PM 404 Views
Re: ~ surveyish: Facebook - 22/09/2011 11:12:00 PM 836 Views
Re: ~ surveyish: Facebook - 23/09/2011 01:05:46 AM 743 Views
I've read every response in this thread, and no one seems to understand how this stuff works. - 23/09/2011 03:40:56 PM 759 Views
Well then maybe there should be explanations that accompany these changes - 23/09/2011 04:05:42 PM 782 Views
There ARE explanations. People just ignore them. - 23/09/2011 04:19:10 PM 865 Views
I could be wrong, but... - 23/09/2011 05:18:18 PM 975 Views
I could be wrong too; it's happened before. Pretty sure I have it right, though. - 23/09/2011 06:02:09 PM 793 Views
Aha! I think we're both right. Or both wrong - 23/09/2011 07:16:42 PM 805 Views
That would be because it is not super clear. - 23/09/2011 07:33:55 PM 718 Views
Always so even-keeled and well-tempered, you! *NM* - 26/09/2011 12:59:08 AM 421 Views

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