Brace Yourself: More ‘Mind-Boggling’ Facebook Updates to Come
- Posted on September 22, 2011 at 12:32pm by
Liz Klimas
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Just this week, Facebook made some subtle changes to its News Feed and sent an email to announce it would be sending you fewer emails. But that’s just the start. Reports say there is more to come during Facebook’s f8 conference today, which will help build the platform into a “social web.”
Mashable reporter Ben Parr says he has seen the new updates Facebook plans to announce at the conference in San Fransisco. He writes they “will change the world of social media” and describes them as “mind-boggling.”
According to The Guardian (via Digital Trends), Facebook will most likely introduce its new ticker — launched earlier this week — and partnerships with major media organizations that could be associated with it. It is also expected that Facebook will make updates — finally — to the “Like” button and announce its music application. The Guardian has more:
The announcements form part of Zuckerberg’s vision of building a “social web” where users interact around all websites, online films and music. It builds on the introduction of the several tools for sites at last year’s f8, which Facebook claims has driven a fourfold increase in traffic from the social network to media sites.
Facebook’s 750 million users will be able to automatically share activity such as viewing, listening and reading in the live “ticker” stream, once they have opted in to the feature. The new stream will be separate from the existing Facebook news feed, although popular items – such as the most frequently played songs among friends – will appear in the column.
Technorati also issued its guesses as to what announcements would entail, one of which it believes is a tablet app created on HTML 5:
This will be the long-awaited beautiful, slick app that utilizes almost all of the best design features of devices such as the iPad, including the still and video cameras, contacts list, touch keyboard and screen, GPS function, and even gyroscope for use with certain games.
The new tablet app will be an absolute embrace of HTML 5 for Facebook, creating an app that is compatible with every single mobile device out there, and expect something that just might modify itself based on which device it is being used on.
Facebook wasted no time making other updates before today’s conference. Just yesterday, Facebook sent an email saying was “trying out” a system that would send fewer emails, but it is a feature you can turn back on.
There have also been recent changes to the News Feed, including a featured ticker. According to Facebook’s blog post, when you login, your News Feed should show you things that you’re most interested in. To make sure you’re as up-to-date as possible on the latest “news” in the Facebook world, the News Feed can tell if you‘ve been on several times that day already or if you’ve gone on a month fast. Here’s more from the post:
Now, News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper. You won’t have to worry about missing important stuff. All your news will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top. If you haven’t visited Facebook for a while, the first things you‘ll see are top photos and statuses posted while you’ve been away. They’re marked with an easy-to-spot blue corner.
The ticker, which can be seen near the top right hand corner of the News Feed, helps eliminate any lag time the main News Feed and “brings your conversations to life”:
Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to see and chat with your friends about photos, articles, and other things they’re posting in real-time.
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Now when a friend comments, asks a question or shares something like a check in, you’ll be able to join the conversation right away. Click on anything in ticker to see the full story and chime in – without losing your place.
Last week, Facebook also launched two features — a subscription button and improved friends list. These have been liked to Twitter’s “follow” and Google+’s “circles”. Although, the Guardian reported Andrew Bosworth, director of engineering at Facebook, as saying the updates were planned before Google+ had even launched.
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Comments (43)
TINFOIL HATS
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 7:15pmFacebook is gay!!!! Period.
Report Post »nocakeforme12
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 6:09pmzuckerbutt contributed the amount allowed by law, and probably more if the truth was known, to obama’s re-election campaign. I say we all start putting our foot down before big brother takes over…
Report Post »biblegeek119
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:56pmI will tell you all what it is coming: -> We will only be able to access the internet through your facebook. The same way we today use a browser to get our webpages etc on our computer. Since facebook is on the hands of you know who, the you know who will select what you see and what you don’t. All other web addresses that today you can freely access from your browser will be blocked.
Google is creating an internet inside the internet.
Right now it is a nudge, then will come the shove…
Report Post »DisgustedWithSociety
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 6:54amAOL meet Facebook — Facebook meet AOL … OH SNAP sorry AOL is too weak to respond
It didn’t work with AOL, why would it with Facebook.
My posts are showing up 4-6 hrs after I put them on. Trying to figure out yesterday Facebook format took so much time – now I have to learn it all over again?
Maybe Google+ IS the way to go.
It was not broken, stop trying to fix it, Is it easier with all these enhancements for hackers to help themselves? OH AND DON’T LOAD A picture from your iPhone — or any other GPS based cellular device, because they WILL find you
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 7:23amThat’s tin foil. Its just one of many tools.
Report Post »Tanner Smith
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:37pmIf its free how is Zuckerberg a millionaire? A wall street genius said it was worth this and they gave it to him, same guy who said Elmo’s mortgage was A-1.
Report Post »Tammy_Beth
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 5:05amad revenue.
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 7:21amHey ZAP, you don’t care? Fine. But its just a tool. I know how to use it. It is fine. There is nothing to worry about.
Report Post »Wurlitzer28
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:01pmFacebook is just invasion of privacy waiting to happen. It is the electronic equivalent of living in an all glass house.
Best advice I can give, if you have an account shut it down.
Report Post »Tom
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 5:00pmTo all of you who hate FB just don’t go on it, who cares? I’m a retired teacher and love keeping in touch with former students and colleagues.
Report Post »PApeacemaker
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:18pmEh…its mainly for lame high school kids & geeks alls it did was take the place oh AOL AIM which was better anyways cuz they couldnt spy on you & get all your personal info. I think the CIA is behind Facebook it just makes sense they’d be in all on it.
Report Post »superchaos
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:17pmI have a google+ account and keep waiting for all my griping fb friends to make the switch but they haven’t yet. Been waiting to close my fb account. I don’t post a whole lot on it anyways since EVERYONE of my “friends” can see it and some things happen at work that my family just doesn’t need to see comments about.
Report Post »BowHuntingTexas
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 3:02pmFacebook is evil. Tower of Babble type evil.
Report Post »bum
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:59pmi can‘t believe any of you are complaining about a FREE service that you don’t have to use. it’s FREEEEEEE. Either quit yer b1tching or don’t use it.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:19pmVenereal Disease comes without a monetary transaction also.
Report Post »Jerley
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:44pmIt’s so free I am about to stop useing it, it’s getting as bad as SS# for collecting data on people. All for freeee
Report Post »spirited
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:53pmIs ANYTHING really free?
Report Post »>For every freedumb, something is lost.
mr molotov cocktail
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:56pmall social media has a cycle-3 years….
Report Post »herding of people is easy but keeping them is the hard part
i dont trust anything that is not open source…. or demands
that they can sell or share info
once you post on facebook it owns it……everything from your pictures to speech~!
biohazard23
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:43pmGlad I shut down my account a long time ago.
Report Post »swoods08
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:31pmMust…. copy…. Google plus…..
Report Post »MUST…… COPY…. GOOGLE PLUS….
Master_and_Commander
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:16pmyeah, I’m not too thrilled with the ”New and improved” Facebook…
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:53pmZuckerberg sold out individualism to political correctness. He took what was a great networking idea and made it into a piece of crap at the beck and call of the Federal Government, including govinfosecurity, the FBI, the CIA, Interpol, the big 3 credit reporting agencies, and more directly corrupt politicians.
Thanks Mark, you suck.
Report Post »Kasey
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:10pmFacebook blows. I can‘t stand constant contact with everyone I’ve ever known. When I have children, they can use this stuff with the understanding that I am going to hack their accounts and delete all their stuff and smash all their ‘smart’ toys on occasion, so they don’t get attached to that garbage. I’m a horrible person.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:10pmWhat the hell is FaceBook?
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:06pmWent to the official facebook page yesterday to complain about the changes to the news feed at noon and was less than surprised to find that 21,000 people had the same reaction before I did. The changes make it much less usable in my case (and slower.)
Report Post »PureDrumFury
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:04pmThese changes are ticking off a whole lotta users, myself included, for all the reasons stated here and more. If they think they are indestructible, they need look no further than MySpace.
Report Post »Dune
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:00pmand just like onstar it will be used to track your computer usage and the enviromental police will come for you
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:58pmI’m not one that enjoys continuious changes. A few more of these and i‘ll just shut’er down !
Report Post »thepoopsmith
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:04pmNo you wont.
Report Post »Uncle Tom
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:41pmHey Poopsmith, the King of Town says, “Shut up!”
Report Post »DrunkReport.com
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:41pmbeen hearing a lot of people say that… almost everyone, in fact.
i wonder if anyone will make good on the threats or if facebook will dominate forever.
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:45pmFacebook sucks, anyway. Nothing but kids & pedophiles.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:44pmWhat a bunch of “mind-boggling” crap.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:44pmI am appalled that the free service that I am in no way obligated to use keeps making changes that mildly inconvenience me.
In other news, it’s just to try and compete with Google+
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:42pmPretty soon you won’t have to leave facebook to go to the bathroom, and it will clean your rear for you.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 22, 2011 at 1:39pmB.S. They are doing what they want to do irrespective of the user’s wishes. The new format is a complete disaster to move around in and all this comes down to is a way for them to make more money. I have no problem with them making more money—KUDOS, it’s what business is for. But they are turning the site into a dictatorial platform changing it at will leaving you scrambling to find your friends list, get the updates you want, etc. They only changed e-mails? WRONG. Can’t find anything on my page right now. It is a disaster and one they initiated based on their future partners wishes versus what the end user will like. They aren’t good changes and while it may be what their partners want, they are going to end up with less of an audience to pander to.
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