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Redesigned Facebook Logo, App, & Desktop Site Debuted at F8
- Thread starter Deadly Cyclone
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Make sure it's up to date, tap your profile picture, first setting you'll see at the top.
I went off a little over three years ago and this is the hardest thing about being off social media. I've definitely lost touch with some people because of my lack of presence on it. I find that I just have to be extra intentional about reaching out to the people that matter to me. Texting, phone calls, emails, all that kind of stuff. I also found that the people that matter the most to me have made the effort to stay in touch with me as well, which has meant a lot.
I'd say this is pretty much on track. They've had a bad time as of late and it's well deserved.
I've reinstalled it, but when i tap on my profile picture on the settings page, absolutely nothing happens. I guess my phone might be too old or something (OnePlusOne).
It's funny I had the same situation with 2 people. I only communicated with them using messenger since that's how it's been for 10 years or so. They both were like "you're literally the only person I talk to on this thing". Moved over to other options and finally got rid of messenger too.
Definitely got rid of Facebook over a year ago and I haven't looked back or felt the need to. It was just a distraction and waste of time. For me, at least. I never even hopped aboard the Twitter/Instagram train either. I'm not getting wrapped up in social media like that again. I went through Live Journal, MySpace, and then Facebook. Kinda done for now. The only important people in my life that I talk to, I talk to them in person or over the phone so it's really not even a big deal.
Facebook's UI has been terrible for years, so this is a welcome change.
I'd have been happy if they just completely copied G+'s UI after it died. There's still too much clutter on Facebook even after the redesign, thanks in large part to in-Facebook games, which are pointless at this point given everybody browses on mobile and you can just download a game's app to your phone.
I'd have been happy if they just completely copied G+'s UI after it died. There's still too much clutter on Facebook even after the redesign, thanks in large part to in-Facebook games, which are pointless at this point given everybody browses on mobile and you can just download a game's app to your phone.
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I do enjoy that a thread on a UI change for Facebook has enticed everyone to come tell us how much Facebook sucks and how they deleted it already.
I wish they mocked these up with more realistic looking content (they surely know what real posts and photos on their service look like, right)?
Fill up the news feed with Minion memes, hot takes in a colored rectangle, and ads. Lower the resolution and brightness of all the photos like 80%.
Either way, this looks to be cementing itself as "For old people!" It looks like Pinterest, which I think is also for old housewife types?
Fill up the news feed with Minion memes, hot takes in a colored rectangle, and ads. Lower the resolution and brightness of all the photos like 80%.
Either way, this looks to be cementing itself as "For old people!" It looks like Pinterest, which I think is also for old housewife types?
Well, they did this redesign for a reason, people aren't using the service as much.
Ditched Facebook last June, haven't really regretted it. Our friends who use it to organize events reach out to us individually if we are invited.
Trying to get to my flashlight app was cumbersome anyway. I can easily just pull up this webpage to find my way in the dark.
Ahhh FB, the hotbed of overt-racism and inflated opinions. Most of my acquaintances moved onto Insta as the platform has declined steadily since the CamAn debacle. Literally, the only good thing FB has produced is React.js and React Native. Throw everything else away (and I feel sorry for the talented engineers that work there).
I had noticed a few years ago that Facebook was causing me to like people less, people who I genuinely liked in real life, I liked them less knowing them on Facebook. I think this was a mix of a flaw of mine (probably some weird insecurities), but also a flaw in the algorithm, and a flaw in how people I know used Facebook. I found the algorithm was promoting content to my feed of people who I wasn't really close with, while hiding content from people who I genuinely wanted to see their content. The mix was that Facebook was just making me unhappy... I'd have more anxiety when using it, would have anxiety about it after going to a party and getting hammered, would have anxiety about someone posting something weird on my wall that I didn't want up there. At the time, and now, I describe this as "negative value" in my life. I was always a little suspicious of Facebook's data accumulation and surveillance, but I had long considered Facebook to give me "positive value"; that is to say, I got more value from the service than the cost (my data, privacy, etc). But, increasingly, my anxiety over the service, how it caused me to feel about people who I genuinely liked "in real life," and Facebook's surveillance capitalism flaws started to shift to negative value: I thought of the cost as greater than the value I was getting out of it. So, I decided to drop the platform, and all of their related products (I never had WhatsApp and while I was on Instagram from the start, I wasn't active in it and don't like it for similar reasons).
I found that the people I genuinely want to keep in contact with, I'd already do that via SMS/messages, email, or seeing them in person. But I'm old, 35, an early FB adopter back in ~2003/2004 or whenever it became available to my college. I don't feel the need to keep in touch with people who I'm only acquaintances with, or who kinda know but don't really know. And, better yet, I find that because I'm not on Facebook getting mad at those people, when I do see them, I'm genuinely happy to see them instead of being annoyed at their social media personalities or having a sense of anxiety about how they feel about my social media personality... or what have you.
If I really had to keep in touch with someone who I'm not really friends with, like some guy from college or something who I'm not close with but still want to connect with somehow, I'd be in a tough spot. I'd probably go to email, as I'm old and most people in my generation still use email or have email or check email incessantly. But, I might be genuinely out of luck with a lot of people, and wouldn't be able to contact them. I think I've just kind of accepted that reality as a preferential reality, for me. Any sense of loss I've felt by not being able to "keep in touch" with someone who I was friends with 15 years ago has been more than made up for that when I run into that person by chance, I'm always way happier to see them and we have much more to talk about than if I was snooping on their social media presentation every day or week or month.
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The new design looks nice but putting the navigation at the top is just straight up bad.
Examples? counterpoints? anything that isn't a shitpost?
I dunno if there's a video of the actual UI, but theoretically the "stuff at the top" (like the home, notifications, etc) would probably roll with you as you scroll down, ya?
It does that now on the facebook app.
It looks cleaner and less cluttered which i guess is good but god to i just want to be able to sort posts chronologically and not get notifications so much for things.
It does that now on the facebook app.
It looks cleaner and less cluttered which i guess is good but god to i just want to be able to sort posts chronologically and not get notifications so much for things.
I listened to Marks keynote and... When Facebook talks about privacy, and when everyone else is, we're talking past eachother. Because we mean different things.
What FB means with privacy is we knowing what we share with who. What we mean with privacy is not having Facebook knowing what we do, and they are not addressing that.
What FB means with privacy is we knowing what we share with who. What we mean with privacy is not having Facebook knowing what we do, and they are not addressing that.
Huh.... Facebook is bringing back their Facebook Messenger desktop app??? They had an desktop app that they shut down in 2014: https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/02/26/facebook-messenger-windows-will-shut-march-3/#!xKlh0
I noticed an immediately improvement in my mood once I deleted it from my phone.
I'll check it once or twice a week on my laptop just to stay in touch with family/friends/use Messenger because it's still a good way to keep in touch/plan events but damn, that site can just be hot garbage sometimes.
There's still a facebook messenger desktop app. It's terrible but it's there. I don't remember the older one, but hopefully this new one is better than the current.
With regards to Facebook, I rarely use the website itself but due to being Co-President of my community association, I'm basically required to be on Facebook due to social media being an integral part of communications with community members. My community association also has a Facebook page that I'm an admin on.
I joined Facebook back in 2006 and made a lot of friends who I still communicate with via Facebook Messenger, many of them transitioned over to Facebook Messenger after AIM shut down as well.
I joined Facebook back in 2006 and made a lot of friends who I still communicate with via Facebook Messenger, many of them transitioned over to Facebook Messenger after AIM shut down as well.
Hey Facebook here's a fucking wild idea but stay with me......
Make Most Recent the default choice.
BOOM. You're welcome.
Make Most Recent the default choice.
BOOM. You're welcome.
They want people to watch stories because it's really easy to place ads in the middle of them.
Yeah on iOS they just changed the header. It's not great. But also not worse. Just different
That redesign looks fucking disgusting. So much white space and a big emphasis on annoying stories and of course ads ads ads
Also nobody really uses Facebook anymore except for your parents and assorted weirdos/boomers, it's become super unfashionable. Most millennials and gen z are firmly on Instagram as their "home" and then branch out to specialized apps like tiktok and snapchat as a secondary
Also nobody really uses Facebook anymore except for your parents and assorted weirdos/boomers, it's become super unfashionable. Most millennials and gen z are firmly on Instagram as their "home" and then branch out to specialized apps like tiktok and snapchat as a secondary
Man, putting navigation on the top is just a bad idea to be honest.
It is way more natural to have it on the bottom close to the respective iOS and Android navigation for gesture-based phones like the S10 and X.
It is way more natural to have it on the bottom close to the respective iOS and Android navigation for gesture-based phones like the S10 and X.
Ugh, I have separate IG and FB accounts, this won't try to invite my contacts will it? (I don't want my coworkers to see my IG lol)EDIT2: Messenger desktop app coming too.
- Users will also now be able to chat between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
I know. I get the top nav concern, but some people are just being overdramatic.
I quite like it, looks far more open - current interface does feel a bit dated/cluttered.
Facebook is still growing in terms of active users:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/...user-growth-revenue-increase-privacy-scandals
Fake edit: I was responding to you pre-edit, but point still stands.
Facebook is still growing in terms of active users:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/...user-growth-revenue-increase-privacy-scandals
Fake edit: I was responding to you pre-edit, but point still stands.
It can still be "growing", but the demographics have definitely changed for the worse.