Facebook Changes Look — and Everyone Hates New Ticker

HATE ALL THE CONSTANT CHANGES FB PUTS OUT

I dislike almost EVERYTHING about FB except that I want to see my grandkids pics there.

IT SUCKS!!! You can’t even filter by feeds anymore. At least I can’t seem to find it. Privacy sucks. EVERYTHING pretty much about it SUCKS!!!

I hate the new facebook changes!!!!! I’ve not seen one single positive response to it from any of my friends either!

Facebook seems to make things worse every few months just for the fun of it.

Thanks alot Facebook. I just lost the first 3 hours of my day trying to wade thru your “improvements”. And then I lost the next hour just being ticked about it. Why are you constantly changing settings? I just want to see things in order by date and everything from everyone. Then I can skim it like a newspaper myself. How do you know what I might find interesting?

Remeber back in the good old days when socializing meant actually talking to people face-to-face? You never complained about the interface or any of that. Maybe people need to spend more time away from their computers (And, yes, I realize I’m saying this on a computer. :-)).

Hate it! All the more reason to cancel my face book. Privacy went out the freaking window with that stupid ticker….personally I don’t want to know or care about what everyone else is doing…and I don’t necessarily want everyone to know what I am do either…..If you are trying to find ways to make FB better and more compatible in a sense…you missed it.

Facebook is actually NOT designed to be a social networking site!! Most people think it is. Facebook is a Marketing Firm. Things are done to keep people around and keep them posting and “liking”. While you keep tabs on your “friends”, Facebook keeps tabs on YOU! There are a couple complex Algorithms used to gather all data about everyone, and compile it into Marketing stats and graphs. This info is then sold in two different ways. The first, to corporations, is to evaluate trends and predict or change markets. The second, is to the Department Of Homeland Security. DHS is one of the biggest private investors of Facebook. You should also know that Facebook owns the rights to anything you publish on Facebook. Including your pictures. They can actually sue you over the usage of your own pics! Read your terms and conditions!!

Come on over to Google+ with the rest of us!!

STOP WHINING ABOUT FACEBOOK AND GO TO GOOGLE+ ITS A LOT MORE EASIER AND, HOW ABOUT A FRESH START? LETS LEAVE MARK POOR!!

So now, Facebook decides what is important for me to see. Facebook had a good thing going and someone decided it was broke and decided we neede a change. To me it is convoluted I am capable of picking and choosing what I want to read. I don’t need outside help. I hate the new changes implemented.

Why, Facebook, why?!? Like EVERYONE else, I want to see my Newsfeed chronologically. I don’t want Facebook deciding what is a “Top News” story for me…especially since these “Top News” stories are always random, inane posts. Dang, at least give me a CHOICE to see my Newsfeed chronologically. Now, I’m going to miss out on many friends’ posts because Facebook doesn’t think those are important to me. I’ve already been using FB less and less, and now, I think I’m done with it. With this new change, it’s simply lost its usefullness for me. Arrogance and not listening to your customers will get you everytime, Facebook. Although, I do know of one party that is happy about your new changes: Google+ ;)

HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT!!!!!!!! Did i mention that I HATE IT?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!

I am begging all of the Facebook haters to please move to G+. I would gladly see Facebook lose a few hundred million users as long as we don’t have to listen to these people complain. You complainers are such a bunch of annoying losers. Wait, make that stupid losers. If you can’t take the 5 minutes it takes the rest of the world to figure out the new changes I feel sorry for you. If you are smart enough to figure out how to navigate the new changes but just don’t like them, great, move to G+ and give the rest of us a break. BTW, if Facebook did not continue to attempt to innovate and improve, they would just become another Yahoo or AOL, and look how well those companies are doing now.

I cant stand the new news feed.. I just want all the newest , most updated post at the top, I really dont care to see something that was posted hours ago or the day before at the top of my page, I dont have all day to sit here and look threw all the post to see 24 from yesterday, another 13 from 6hrs ago,, UGHHHHHHHHHHHH.. I WANT MY OLD FACEBOOK BACK.. If its not broke dont fix it.. WHO EVER HAD THIS BRIGHT IDEA NEEDS TO SLAPED THEN FIRED..

This is not an improvement!!!! Honestly, who are you to decide what is a top story for me? There is a saying: If it’s not broke, don’t fix it!!! PLEASE, change it back!!!!!

I’ve had the new ticker for over a month now and I hate it today as much as I did on day 1. Not sure what they were thinking. I’m glad everyone else has it now so I can start finding more of my friends on Google + as they migrate from Facebook. My FB usage has declined by more than 75% since the change was implemented on my account in August.

I hate FB. It is seeming to be more boring

I hate the changes Facebook is making, and if they continue it may become the new Myspace MEANING that if it continues than everyone (or at least pretty much everyone) will leave the website and probably go to google+, I already have one person on my friends list that joined it and if either more of my friends join or Facebook makes even MORE dumb changes (whichever comes first) I just may make one myself and forget about Facebook. I read this thing once, it was a letter from Myspace to Facebook and basically if I remember correctly it was saying how everyone left Myspace and that Facebook was next (meaning that everyone would leave Facebook as well) and if this continues that they will. (I couldn’t really remember all of the letter because it’s been a long time since I read it).

I really don’t want to delete my Facebook. I have so many photos on there and I keep in touch with so many people that way but I don’t know what else to do. My privacy settings are gone, People I’m not friends with and don’t even know can comment on my photos. It’s awful! My own mother is the one who told me the privacy settings changed. I had her blocked from seeing what I post and yesterday she asked me why she could see my status (and yelled at me for using the F word in it, which, by the way, was directed at Facebook). At least give us back our privacy!

Hi everyone. I figured out a workaround for this stupid news feed. Go to account settings >> Language >> English (UK) and then log out. Log back in and change your language to English (US) and the feed should be working the same.

Screw both FB AND GOOGLE PLUS

I hate the ticker. There is no way to keep your info off of it.

“Top Story” for me today was from someone I worked with six months ago, barely know and rarely communicate with on Facebook. He’d bought a new mattress and posted a picture of it.

Thank you, Facebook, for deciding something I couldn’t care less about would be of grand importance to me! Snort.

These changes are nothing less than an outrage! Why must Facebook users suffer this abuse? There have been other changes I have not cared for but this is an utter abomination!

Not sure where abcnews / Ned Potter got this two to one ration for people that dislike vs like. From what I’ve seen, it appears to be something like 95% of the FB population hates it…

This is what is being shared..
Facebook, you’re not near as smart as you think you are. Your algorithms for deciding what I want to see, who I want to talk to or what I think is important are 99.999% of the time the exact polar opposite of what I want. Everything you do to try to simplify things only complicates things more. Every attempt you make to improve things inevitably ends up in a HUGE step backwards. Take for example the new way Facebook displays pictures when clicked on that now appear initially as a compressed blurry mess reminiscent of the internet circa 1990. Something as simple as a Friend Request is now just a headache of options. The chat, instead of just showing everybody that’s online now is broken up into segments that YOU GUESS I want to talk to, more often than not displaying many that I rarely want to chat with and many that aren’t even online. Do I have the option to just display everyone that IS online? Nope, because as history has taught us Facebook isn’t about viewing or doing things that I want, it’s about Facebook coming up with some ludicrous idea of how things “should” be and than ramming it down it’s users throats. I echo the sentiments of others that have cited that it is this kind of mentality that killed MySpace, a reminder that Facebook should never consider themselves “too big to fail.” You’re not… repost if you agree

To Ned Potter: There is no poll on Mark’s page. This leftist rag of a website is probably in bed with Facebook, pushing their vile agenda.

LOL! I quit logging into FB sometime in 2010. I don’t even miss it. I should have deleted my account then, but i left it up…been pretty much inactive. It seems to have become one big advertisement. Every corporation wants you to like them on FB etc. Bleh…I have been fine without it. Guess what? If people want to find out what’s been going on in my life…they have to actually call me and or send an email.

So, FB decides who I “like” the most by who I post to the most. By default then, won’t I start interacting with those people more just because FB makes me see them more, thus keeping the cirlce going? Just because one of my friends doesn’t use FB all day, every day, doesn’t mean they should be excluded from my feed based solely on the fact that I don’t “usually” interact with them. Please, FB let US be the judge of what we see or at least give us the option to go with a simple, chronological feed.

I deactivated my account this morning. I will miss some of my world-wide friends, but it isn’t worth giving up ALL of my privacy and actually getting to the posts on the feed was not working. I was only seeing what Facebook wanted me to see, and only from the friends (and sometimes complete strangers) that facebook wanted me to interact with. I can make my own choices…and I choose not to participate.

I was on facebook 2-years ago for about 9-months. I’m stopped b/c I got tired of all the ridiculous posts. Now facebook is becoming “big brother” and is monitoring you every move. I can’t believe people want to be watched like that.

I never liked Facebook but joined it for the heck of it but barely use it. It really bothers me the lack of privacy and how Facebook constantly intrudes and changes things. It seems they control everything. We should have a choice on how and if we want to change things. I may just get rid of it, they are becoming to big on themselves at the expense of their “clientele”!!!!

Maybe I just don’t get it, but I always thought Facebook was awkward.

Wow, society is just sad.

Hate it! Put it back the way it was. No privacy now!

There’s a helluva lot more important things in the world than trying to figure out new changes in FB – often not intuitive and often annoying. Changes should make things simpler, not the newest wiz bang someone thinks is cool. It’s like taking a pile of organized files and throwing them up in the air and saying ‘Yay – we get to organize them all over again… and again…and again.”

HATE IT! They knew us FB people were already angry about the changes they have made earlier in the year. Get a clue! WE DON’T LIKE IT! COME ON GOOGLE PLUS.. HURRY UP!

Helllloooo Google Plus!

They say that what people can see has not changed but that is not true. Before this ticker no one saw the exact moment I was in a game doing something. I have also noticed that before if a friend posted on a non friends post or liked the post we did not have access to that post UNLESS they shared the post. Now I can see tons of peoples personal posts and I have no idea who these people are nor do they know me. I can see all just because one of my friends liked their post. It is insane. I will be removing all of my personal pictures and not using the status bar anymore. I will do those things on Google+.

Why is there always a couple of profile pictures that FB won`t allow you to remove, iv`e tried and tried…….it will allow you to ad more or different ones but there seems to be at least one or two remaining that you can`t access……….unless there is something hidden that i`m not seeing?

I hate the new news feed. I’m getting too much from people I don’t even know and not enough or any from people I really care about. Please change it back. Who are you to say what’s important to me? If Google+ gets my Zynga games I’ll switch in a heartbeat!

If you must make changes do it, so only the ones who like them can use them. (if this is possible) I personally do not like this latest change. I do not need to know everything my friends are doing. If they like a photo that is up to them, I do not need to know. If they change their employment and I need to know, I can check out their profile. All of these changes are cluttering up my page. I have enough clutter in my life I do not need it on Facebook. LEAVE FB ALONE.

I love the new facebook. Im not a fan of the ticker being where the chat is but when you set the chat bar to “hide” the ticker is kind of cool. and i love facebooks lists, every single person in my fb friends are assigned to a list. facebooks privacy is also amazing now. Im a supporter, change may not always be great but I like this change.

Facebook > Google+

Now matter how much users hate it, they’ll stay there, so fb can do as they please and wait out the complaints.

If we didn’t have change we’d still be listening to 8 tracks.

Not one single person on my newsfeed has expressed positive comments on the new look – I’ve been plagued all day long with large pictures of very negative comics and really negative posts and at first, I posted a couple of negative comments too. I very soon got so irritated at facebook, and then I got really irritated at my friends with all the clutter, so I just turned it off. I’ll come back tomorrow and maybe things will have calmed down a bit.

Let me respond to this quote from the article — “You won’t have to worry about missing important stuff. All your news will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top.” I was not worried about missing anything before the change. And, how do you intend to read my mind and figure out what is important or interesting to me? Obviously, you don know me now or you would have known that making these changes will irritate me and you would have known my reaction would be to close my account and go somewhere else to socialize. I don’t want “news”. I want to be able to socialize with my friends. I hate the new changes.

oh my god! new facebook is so annoy! I HATE NEW FACEBOOK! GO BACK OLD FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!!!

I have said it a couple of times this week – it looks like Facebooks and Netflix are under the same management team.

YOU ARE NOT CNN OR PBS>>> Yoare a tool for social networking. The TICKER TAPEIS USELESS ANd your so clled privacy issues are poorly designed. Keep it clean and foucused. BE GREAT AT WHAT YOU BEGAN ….

I hope a ton of people deactivate their Facebook accounts over this. I’m telling ya…it’s just a matter of time till Crackbook goes the way that myspace did. Get off the crack people!

LOLLLMAO! And the mindless sheep who have been mesmerized by Suckerburg are whining..LOL.. Don’t worry Suckerburg, they’ll be back. You are the modern day Barnum & Baily, “There is a sucker born every minute” and you have 750 million of em; eating outta’ your hand..LOL There sheep lost in a daze of over consuming marketing

Too big a change all at once. Those who are not tech savvy, or simply do not have the time to figure out the new features will quit. Personally, I don’t like FB deciding what I want to see.

I deleted my Myspace & MyYearbook recently, looks like it’s FB’s turn. It’s been something I put off for too long anyway. G+ is better, to be honest.

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Deleted my FB account last night about 20 minutes after these changes rolled out, once I discovered I had no control over the settings. Why doesn’t Facebook get the simple concept that its users want 1) control 2) privacy? You’d think someone who attended Harvard would have some degree of smarts. Facebook zucks.

WAAAAHHH…cry some more everyone.

I HATE the changes, but worries me most is using the posts in the ticker, I can now access people’s FB profiles and wall that in the past have been restricted by their privacy settings. If a mutual friend posts on someone you don’t knows page, you can access that page via the link on the ticker. NOT cool. If I can do it, that means my privacy has been tossed out the window as well!

Seems inevitable – you have a good thing going and all you have to do is NOT screw it up. Mark and FB have really screwed up. Interesting timing seeing Apple just released the worst Mac OSX update in many years – Lion really sucks for the same reason everybody on FB hates the changes. It worked great and then they broke it. Sorry Steve, you just left your company and it’s already starting to loose traction.

I like it.

I want to know in chronological order exactly what has happened, not have it jump from one post to another. If I’m concerned or interested in a particular friend, page or group, I’m perfectly capable of clicking on them/it to see if I’ve missed anything important to me.

This isn’t a report, it’s a claim. Facebook changes, you all do a report on how everyone hates it, FB people use it, get used to it and complain again. The pattern continues. C’mon Ned…find some real news to report on!

Hate it! I want to change it back to the old one, right now! It’s not easier for me… if people like it great, but give us the option to have either. Thanks (:

What I want to know is how is Facebook going to determine what are the stories that are important or what aren’t?

I’m sick of all the changes on facebook because once I get used to one layout…they decide to change it AGAIN. Maybe they need to pay attention to all the feedback they are getting or they will be shut down by google because everyone is going to Google+ it looks like. A friend of mine completely deleted her facebook and is focusing on Google+ so they need to pay attention to their users.

The current changes set all of your Facebook friends to the ‘Most’ setting for the amount of posts you want to see from them. If you want to go to each friend’s profile and change it to display ‘All” their posts, it’ll take a while. The Top story feature is Facebook’s way of finding out what you do not like, and despite the fact that many would fight for a ‘dislike’ button, the idea that Facebook is selling a database of Facebook users ‘dislikes’ to data miners is unsettling. If Facebook wants to know if I like a soft drink so it can deliver that soft drink ad to me, fine. What practical purpose does calumniating users’ dislikes serve? If a user demotes a ‘Top Story’ about rain, will all weather related posts be censored, or does it reflect on the account posting the story? The important offense is Facebook’s CENSORSHIP blatant censorship. Once Facebook was a place of only people, now every business has a page as well. The new changes effectively help Facebook begin shifting the AD’s from the corner to the news feed itself. Nobody has time or wants to spend it making dozens of lists with custom options, checking independent news feeds quite so much as they want the OPTION of clicking on ‘most recent’ and receiving a chronological News Feed. These changes don’t help users at all, as they are designed to give businesses the tools they need to creep up the ranks of your ‘Top Story’ hierarchy so you can be reminded of their products. When Facebook sets all your friends post display to “most’ instead of ‘All” AND also decides which post go where, Facebook becomes a less reliable way to keep in touch with friends coworkers and family. Nobody should miss a birthday, a shared moment, or a vital communication because, after scouring the News Feed up and down twice, it turns out that post didn’t make the Facebook chosen list. Not everybody is going to go to every Facebook friend’s page and customize, so over time the site will appeal less to many users, who will miss a chronological News Feed and knowing ALL of the posts of ALL of their Facebook friends will appear. The changes allow Facebook to gather ‘dislike’ data on its users, censor or suppress posts at will, and create a messy matrix of features and options that have many Facebook users feeling bored and annoyed with what has effectively become an ineffective method of communication in this day, and in this age.

The ticker window has taken away my privacy. I don’t want everyone to see what I’ve posted on groups or on other friend’s posts. No privacy there at all.. I can turn their comments and likes off (although tedious for over 200 friends) but how do I turn off mine? I can’t!

I liked the old facebook better. It was just fine without the changes! You should have kept it the way it was, because more people are UNhappy with the changes than they are happy.

I loved waking up yesterday morning to YET ANOTHER CHANGE I DIDNT ASK FOR BY FACEBOOK. I love how we get to decide what works for us. The whole corner of the page is taken up by what has been decided is important to us. Just one more thing in this country we dont get any say about. Google might not be a bad idea to try afterall

HATE IT!!!!
PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS STOP WITH ALL THESE STUPID CHANGES THAT MOST OF US DON’T WANT

I totally HATE the new format, you have changed it all SO many times and we’ve had to get used to it, but this is awful, half of my friends I’ve not received comments from, and other comments on every man and his dog, whom I don’t want to see is on in great detail!! YOU ARE GONNA LOSE A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THIS STUPID CHANGE F/B!!!

Hey FACEBOOK!

WE DO NOT NEED THE SENSELESS NEW CHANGE. WE NEED THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK, I HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAVE *LOW* VISION THAT NEW DESIGNS ARE CONFUSING THEM. ALL OF MY FAMILIES AND FRIENDS DO NOT *NEED* THE NEW CHANGE.

WHAT WE MEAN WE DON’T LIKE IT OR DO NOT WANT IT OR DO NOT NEED THAT FREAKING NEW CHANGES THAT MEAN *NO* ARE YOU EVER, EVER, EVER OPEN YOUR EARS AND FREAKING *LISTEN*. *NO* MEANS *NO*!!!!!!!! DO YOU FREAKING HEAR ME!!! WE WANT FREAKING OLD FACEBOOOK BACK!!!!! DUHHHH. OPEN YOUR FREAKING EYES AND READ(((((**WE DO NOT WANT THAT NEW CHANGE AND PLEASE COME ON, PLEASE LEAVE THAT FREAKING OLD FACEBOOK *ALONE**!!!!!!))))) I HOPE DO YOU **FINALLY** GET IT!!!!???? THEN ((((JUST CHANGE IT BACK)))) YOU LOSERS!!!

Friends have already been trying Google+, looks like I am headed there also.

Didn’t Facebook learn anything from Myspace?! When you change too much people go and look for something that’s easier to use and not so confusing! Already people are switching to Google+ .. I know people that have already switched and are encouraging others to do it as well! There’s no reason to be changing Facebook.. why change something people like?! I mean really… Facebook saw what happened to Myspace when it started making so many changes so what idiot would follow in those footsteps?! If their goal is to destroy their own site and to make people delete their accounts then they are well on the way to succeeding! OH.. and by the way… I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK!!!!!!!! IT SERIOUSLY SUCKS!!!!

What a bunch of grown people whining and crying about change. LOL I think FB should continue to make changes every few months just so I can see what frigging immature babies to delete from my friends, oh and I get a free chuckle and laugh at people. I am on G+, FB, the other one also, and they all continue to change. It is inevitable… Suck it up, or go somewhere else, no one will miss you. New users will come along and like it… And remember people, we are only users… the customers that FB has are the ones who fill their pockets with green so it can stay free to all of us.

Now, you can creep the newsfeed while you creep someone’s profile.

And, to the people who for some reason are mad because others don’t like it, YOU can suck it up. We’re sorry we don’t have an opinion like yours. You have your right to say you love it, and we have the right to say we hate it. I hate people who act like someone who doesn’t like what they like is immature or something. Facebook wanted to know what was on our minds, and if that’s what it is, then that will be posted.

And if YOU don’t like it, go ahead and delete them. I’m sure if you’re so set on your own thoughts that you delete someone over a status that isn’t even about you… they won’t miss you either.

So long FB….. Hello Google+

Deleted my FB today after seeing wall posts between friends of mine and strangers on the ticker, whom I am sure they did not want me to see. This “improvement” will have a great chilling effect on people commenting/liking posts, as they do not know who is watching. YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THIS. You can request that people to “unsubscribe” from your comments/likes, but YOU should have control over who sees your content! Google+ is far from perfect, but this is the last straw with FB for me.

Please don’t make FACEBOOK into another MYSPACE.!

There is no privacy on facebook anymore. It is a way to have you exploited that is all. The old facebook was better. Also just because someone takes a picture of someone whether it is friends or family what gives them the right to put that picture on facebook. That is another thing wrong with facebook. Not everyone on here is wanting to be exploited they just want to talk with people and play games.They need to get rid of all the kids under 18 on here. It should just be for adults.

If I had a way to modify or affect settings, I may not hate it as badly, but they don’t give us the option. Perhaps, I may want to see top stories, from people that IIIIIIIII choose. I do not like Facebook to ever assume something for me and not let me say, “no, you’re wrong. If I have to do something like this, well then at least let me do it this way, or for these people and NOT these people.” I do not like having to go and uncheck top story all the time. I do not want the algorithm to think I’m okay with these top changes and factor in and compound the crap it already gives me.

I miss the ability to have what groups I want on my profile. I miss the ability to determine who has access to comment on my pictures. Now, if they can see it, they can comment.

I vote to go back to the way it was and the next time that you decide to roll out changes, give us modifying options and maybe everyone won’t be so pissed.

iI hate this new idea it now takes me longer to see what was post from the last 5 hours that I missed I have to scroll throught the whole page wich now takes 3 times longer then what it usually is this is nuts they should they dont know what might be interesting to me. Half of my news feed I dont even pay attn to. I hate the new changes !!! ………….& I am going to pay just to be a member on facebook that’s a negative.!!!!

Facebook is getting on my last nerve. I HATE THE NEWS FEED NOW! All see are people saying they also hate it! OLD stores are on top and I have to search for new ones. Have I mentioned how much I hate the changes? They are NOT an improvement and I also Hate the loss of privacy now. When a friend post on THEIR friends wall it now shows up on my news feed, that is NOT right. Now when I post somewhere ALL my friends see it, it has made me STOP posting, it is NOT the business of others to see every move I make!
Facebook should ALLOW us to decide which format we want! They are NOT improving it, its making people angry!

Facebook, instead of improving, keeps getting worse. They have to learn that frequent updates that touch a substantial amount of processes have a very negative impact. I completely agree with the original article above. Facebook started out as a great idea, however because of recent stupidies and mistakes they are going to lose it all. The managers at facebook who have introduced the new changes should be immediately fired.

The so called ” New Facebook” is a travesty and insult to all users in terms that the users who in terms of numbers comprise Facebook were never given options to choose or have an extensive say in these annoying, confusing, and controlling choices. This new format is yet another example of corporate CEO’s trampling the rights and freedoms of the masses. Facebook has completely lost touch with its users by instead becoming the all controlling faceless dictator who randomly and arbitrararily subjects it’s own dictums upon the masses wuth no regard to their rights or freedoms for choices. It is appalling that these new so called changes were executed with little or no discussion to Facebooks users. So what else is new in this latest example of trampling on individual American rights by corporate entities?

What the hell does mail mean (item 11 above. You and G mail are always changing your progsrams and confusing us. Keep a program , stick withi it, slow down, etc. GET IT?

I don’t understand how to use Facebook now. With the change, FB managed to turn me into a novice again when it comes to FB. Can’t be good for their popularity. Are there no option to go back to the old format?

Hate it may close account. Too hard to navigate or remove invormation. Has a delete that does not work.

First of all, I don’t like changes made to anything that I have grown used to, especially to what I had thought from the start was, finally, a perfectly pleasurable innocent fun, great entertainment, & FREE! Secondly, I have been so comfortable with my Facebook membership from day one; that I even learned to ‘love it a little’ — as hardly a day has gone by since joining this new favorite diversion without visiting my F/B pages (and isn’t that ‘akin’ to love, in a way)?! ;-) But now, here come the changes that most of us dread, & all I can think of to say is: “IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT!!” :-\ ….
I am an investor, & I was happy to know that Facebook will soon be on the Stock Exchange! I was all set to buy in for as much as I could afford, because I was so convinced that Mark Zuckerman is “another Steve Jobs” — honest & trustworthy, & using his brains [mostly] for the ‘benefit of mankind’! Well, I must say that, now, I am disillusioned! At the moment, with these arbitrary new changes, the bubble has burst, & he seems just like another greedy “Sell-Out” — & possibly had all of these ‘dark plans’ for the future of F/B all along! He doesn’t seem to be content with the Billion$ he’s made so far! He must have visions of “Ruling The Electronic Universe” instead!! I may be suspicious & paranoid, but this is what my ‘sixth sense’ is telling me now, after studying this over! One thing I’m sure of; I will not be investing on this IPO!!! Mark Zuckerberg, you are no “Steve Jobs” (or even “a Bill Gates”)! Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, [the adversarial twins] who sued Mr. Zuckerberg back in the beginning of Facebook’s foreseeable ‘fortunes’ must surely feel gratified that they did sue him, & got ‘from him’ what they won, at the time! I wish the Winklevoss twins good luck with what they may have in mind for their futures! (I don’t think they are completely through with Facebook’s so-called ‘Founder & CEO’ yet)! We’ll have to wait and watch for the outcome of that! Remember these words to live by, Mr. Z.:
“IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT!” *Namasté* ☸ڿڰۣ——