Facebook is finally fixing it’s structure
There has always been something that bugged me about Facebook.
I’m in the business of building social networks and Facebook has always had it’s own ‘paradigm’ which kind of confused me and kind of worked. Perhaps it was because I can’t get in and put my own links on my page, embed an image of mine onto my page or even really figure which page was my page.
When they came out with Facebook Pages last year - it was close - but it was also a completely different universe. The ‘wall’ (feeds) stuff has also been quickly evolving, so I put aside my complaints and focused one actually using the thing.
So it turns out I wasn’t alone and that there WERE some fundamental changes that were needed.
Coolio!
The issue that Scoble brings up is real “how do we migrate from our friends list INTO one of these new pages?”
But congrats to Facebook for continuing to evolve - quickly! No wonder we can’t download videos or images. But I can’t want for that (finally) to arrive - either!
You are so right! Getting on facebook was really wierd and sometimes frustrating for me. I was strugglng to build a coherent mental model and I kept failing. Like you I eventually concluded the reason was - facebook is itself incoherent.
But this didn’t particulalry bother my non geek friends.
OTOH they are often accidentally posting private convos on their walls. So what they don’t know CAN hurt them.
You are so right! Getting on facebook was really wierd and sometimes frustrating for me. I was strugglng to build a coherent mental model and I kept failing. Like you I eventually concluded the reason was - facebook is itself incoherent.
But this didn’t particulalry bother my non geek friends.
OTOH they are often accidentally posting private convos on their walls. So what they don’t know CAN hurt them.