The New Facebook: Prophesies of Danger!

Thought I'd share this...lol, seriously people, stop being such drama queens.

Before you read this, I'd like to preface this with the fact that I find it hilarious that all the little facebook dorks have finally been outed. These are the facebookers who take like a comma out between one of their favorite movies and replace it every other day just so they will show up as having "updated their profile" so everyone will click on it when they log in to see what exciting news there is. Just funny, that's all.

Here it is:

So, people are totally freaking out about this newsfeed thing on the Facebook. I rather like it, actually. It bothers me to no end when someone comes up on my "recently updated" list and his/her profile looks exactly the same to me. Update? What update? omg, fb *lists* the changes for me now! In addition to this, it's interesting to see what new groups my friends have joined since I could be interested in joining those groups too. Maybe someone has recently come across a new book or new movie they find really good and they've just added it to their list. I could be interested in that. It could be one of my favorite books/movies too and now I know it's something we have in common and could discuss.

To be fair, you CAN go to your profile at any time and delete your recent newsfeeds. Facebook has not stripped you of the ability to not display information you don't wish to display. Honestly, the feeds could be greatly improved through configurable options... such as which types of feeds to display. I do wish the whole feed thing was another tab instead of completely replacing the home page. It hits you with a bit much when you log in and it looks cluttered. Too bad it's not collaspable by date or category (notes, photos, etc.)

Mostly, I honestly don't find this very invasive because I like to know what happens. I understand that it means the things I do will be displayed too but, like I already said, you can always go to your profile and edit them. What I don't really understand is how are people cirticizing this when the entire purpose of facebook was to create communities and view information about each other? Don't act like you don't spend hours on facebook looking at other people's information and photos and the like. It only bothers you because suddenly, other people can see that you do this. You don't like the idea of other people watching your every move on Facebook? That's ridiculous because everything you do is electronically logged anyway. Somewhere, there's a record of everything you do on Facebook... what's the big deal if it's displayed? Don't like what you've been doing? Who do you really think is watching your every move anyway? Aren't these all your friends and members of your own community? What did you think you were getting into when you created a PUBLIC PROFILE?

Basically, I really like the idea of the feed but I think they released with a bit too much at once. Unfortunately, the Facebook has lost quite a number of supporters in recent months by adding content which many deem superfluous. This includes but is not limited to: status window, high school facebooks, and notes (blogs). I hardly think it's Facebook's intent to take over all the other websites but I have to admit it's a bit much. My personal distaste is for the high school facebooks. I felt much more secure when I knew that the Facebook required a college/university email address just to sign up. Maybe I sound elitist but the Facebook is not meant for you high school kids. Get out of my college-only Facebook!

Give them a break. They developed this site out of nothing and now they're under all this fire after all the work they've done. The Facebook is nothing without all the students who willingly joined. Now everyone wants to freak out and attack them, after all the time and energy we voluntarily gave up to make this site so popular? We fueled their fire with our enthusiam and now there is simply chaos.

Really, I just think the whole thing is ridiculous... Facebook overdid it and everyone overreacted. Now please stop being drama queens.