Things that are pissing you off. - Page 2350

went to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, and saw that they are now fully stocked with Halloween cards.

then I remember when the DA South East AZNs got hold of facebook.

At least it's not Christmas creep yet. That shit annoys the fuck out of me.

I hate timeline, but what really pisses me the fuck off is Facebook keeps suggesting that I invite my (deceased) friend John to a memorial for our (deceased) mutual friend Bill. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME YET AGAIN THAT JOHN IS DEAD YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES.

MAYBE I WILL !

That really sucks.

Wow. Sorry to hear that's happening. I'd be pissed too.

Fucking asthma flare-up...

No. Until someone in a position of power (Zuckerburg, some story on CNN about how "facebook's new features are insecure!!!111", etc) whines or they start dropping market share, they have the same canned response every free software manufacturer does: "Thanks for the feedback, we'll keep it under consideration. Ultimately, we're really smart because we're the guys developing this while you're just some idiot user. So if you don't like it, go somewhere else, k brah?"

 

Ummm, this thread is about things that piss us off, and Timeline pisses me off. I'm not gonna just sit here & pretend I like it. I can't change things, but that doesn't mean I have to like them.

I don't know about that...I know people who work at facebook and this is pretty much how they do it. They roll out new features to select groups of users and see what happens. Sometimes they explicitly solicit feedback and other times they just see what happens (they know exactly what you are clicking on and how long you are spending on what page). They will start with screwing with employee pages, but then they move on to actual users. Sometimes it is opt-in, other times it is just "throw it out there and see if they notice it".

There were definite changes to the timeline setup from when they started giving it to people a year ago. Unfortunately, remember its not purely what users *say* they want that facebook is tracking. They also pay a lot of attention to how much time it makes you spend on facebook....and introducing something like timeline probably showed that converted users spent more time on facebook (and other users spent more time browsing their page since you can just keep scrolling down forever). It does suck that this is pulling them further away from their original beautifully simple pages but the thing is...people should have been complaining about this last october.
In web2.0 time, its like still complaining that Al Gore won the popular vote.

I get fucking livid when my girlfriend makes me pick up stuff at an inconvenient store on my way home from work when she has the fucking day off.

It's cyclical. Every time facebook makes a major change to the layout people cry for a little then forget about it.

My school got it when in 2004 IIRC. I wasn't ivy league, though. (Univ of Maryland)

Oh man, remember the news feed?

I'm the opposite. Mine will pick up the item she wants plus 14 other items she thought were neat. Or sparkled.