[IxDA Discuss] Changes to Facebook (Perceived Privacy)

[Peter Boersma]

Chris wrote:
> A/B testing (where you show some site visitors design A and some design
> B, then you measure and compare the results of each) works for sites
> where there is little or no multi-user networking involved... But how
> does one beta test a network-related feature on a social network site,
> where everyone is interconnected?

I'd say not all test scenarios require that both ends of the social relation
require the availability of the new feature. Facebook's news feed is, as far
as I can tell, a good example of this, right?

So only the types of innovations where both ends require the new feature you
run into trouble. But this was also true for other innovations, like file
compression formats and even the old fax machine. How did those get tested?

Peter
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