[IxDA Discuss] Changes to Facebook (Perceived Privacy)

[Jim Drew]

>From: Rebekah Sedaca <rsedaca at capstrat.com>
>
>The face book response is an interesting one, and I too have asked
>myself "did they do any user testing"?

That's one of the first things I thought as well, and then revised myself slightly: the problems with this are matters of scalability.  When you're dealing with a few dozen test accounts with a handful of friends each, it's no biggee, but once you're in the wild with hundreds of users and hundreds of friends, things magnify dramatically.  And even in beta testing, the problems won't show as strongly until you have tons of beta users.  (Of course, they should havee thought of that in their testing, but I can imagine them not giving it the weight it needed.  Bet they won't make that mistake next time!)


-- Jim