[IxDA Discuss] Changes to Facebook (Perceived Privacy)

[Nasir Barday]

This morning, Mark Zuckerberg, the original founder of Facebook, sent an
open letter to all Facebook users (login to read it), apologizing for the
way they rolled out the feature. Interestingly enough, the movement to
change facebook gained more ground because people noticed through those very
same news feeds that others were joining "we hate the new facebook!" groups.

Anyway, the solution they're trying is adding a separate settings section to
allow users to control what shows up as news items. They probably could have
saved a lot of hurt from the beginning by doing some good ol' fashioned user
testing. But I guess from a social network's point of view, what better
metric for a design than the number of groups that start up in favor of or
denouncing it?

Aigh. I know what books I'm getting those Facebook peeps if they end up on
my holiday shopping list ...

- Nasir