F8: Two Zuckerbergs, One Keynote
Today is the long-awaited F8 conference that serves to change your Facebook experience for better or for worse.
Facebook has come a long way since announcing the platform, 4 years ago at the first F8 conference. Successively from F8 to F8, Facebook has expanded their social empire with great success, after all, Rome wasn’t built in a day.
It was verified today at F8 that Facebook has yet to plateau and continues to grow; in fact there are now over 800 million users. User growth isn’t even worth counting anymore seeing as the Facebook user-base is bigger than the population of Europe!
Now, Facebook is focusing on optimizing user engagement. As Scott wrote in an earlier blog post about the new Timeline feature, “Facebook just became alot more social and has taken back social media.” Kung-Pow.
As a user you will be seeing more ways to share: share your mobile video camera with “Visits“, share your grocery list, share your BMs, share your kids?
A lot of this sharing will be powered by the Open Graph. You may have already seen it in the right-side column above your friend’s list. The open graph is a live stream of your friend’s activity. This open graph will show you gaming activity, pictures comments, everything! It optimizes engagement: all you have to do is hover over your activity of choice in order to see what’s going on– and it scrolls super-duper fast!
Enough with real features, check-out a few bogus new features like “the slow-poke” or “I’m Not Friends With These People“, here is the keynote introduction with SNL’s Andy Samberg aka Mark Zuckerberg, aka Zuck Dawg:
FYI With Facebook at your back pushing you to share, you might want to check-out this blog, “What Not To Share On Facebook“.
Comment and let us know if you tuned into F8 or have anything on your mind regarding these wild pie-in-the-face changes. You can watch F8 live-stream, here, although I do believe we are cutting into happy-hour and Facebook rage-fest 2011.
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And Robb I went to your profile and I hardly see any of your post so you must have the settings right.
Stacy they did test all of these features with users for a bit before releasing.. And I've said it before and I'll say it again.. It's a free site. We all choose to be here. So we play by their rules or leave. ~Scott
Facebook is the most famous social networking i have ever seen, and for that i like to congrats zuckerbugs on the big success.
And Robb I went to your profile and I hardly see any of your post so you must have the settings right.
I've found it easy to hid things personally. And if you go to your privacy settings there is an option to make the changes apply to all posts from the past as well. Worked like a charm for me. ~Scott
has anyone noticed how hard it is to hide the new timeline?
Ive been messing with settings and even hiding things (since its almost impossible to delete) for a solid 12 hours and the changes I make dont have much effect on the public visibility of my timeline.
Yeah but for every person that dislikes the changes there are 2-3 that love them.. It's just the most vocal are always the ones that are unhappy. ~Scott
Agreed we choose to be here, however it should work "for the people" and not against or despite what the people want!
Stacy they did test all of these features with users for a bit before releasing.. And I've said it before and I'll say it again.. It's a free site. We all choose to be here. So we play by their rules or leave. ~Scott
Also Microsoft???? Really????
Of course there is no obligation, but a good business mindset would give there users the respect and gratitude of "sharing" first and perhaps listening to the suggestions/ideas of the people who utilize this site, for without them, there wouldnt be a facebook ~ Stacy
Yeah Facebook has no obligation to ask anyone how they should run their site and what it should look like.. ~Scott
I never got asked by Microsoft...did you...;-) ?
Stop making changes without consulting the users!
I loved the opening! And love the new Timeline!
Facebook is the most famous social networking i have ever seen, and for that i like to congrats zuckerbugs on the big success.
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And Robb I went to your profile and I hardly see any of your post so you must have the settings right.
I've found it easy to hid things personally. And if you go to your privacy settings there is an option to make the changes apply to all posts from the past as well. Worked like a charm for me. ~Scott
has anyone noticed how hard it is to hide the new timeline?
Ive been messing with settings and even hiding things (since its almost impossible to delete) for a solid 12 hours and the changes I make dont have much effect on the public visibility of my timeline.
Yeah but for every person that dislikes the changes there are 2-3 that love them.. It's just the most vocal are always the ones that are unhappy. ~Scott
Agreed we choose to be here, however it should work "for the people" and not against or despite what the people want!
Stacy they did test all of these features with users for a bit before releasing.. And I've said it before and I'll say it again.. It's a free site. We all choose to be here. So we play by their rules or leave. ~Scott
Also Microsoft???? Really????
Of course there is no obligation, but a good business mindset would give there users the respect and gratitude of "sharing" first and perhaps listening to the suggestions/ideas of the people who utilize this site, for without them, there wouldnt be a facebook ~ Stacy
Yeah Facebook has no obligation to ask anyone how they should run their site and what it should look like.. ~Scott
I never got asked by Microsoft...did you...;-) ?
Stop making changes without consulting the users!
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