Comments on: Facebook Updates Newsfeed Rules

By: Facebook Fights False Newsfeeds « PR, New Media, GTD - Lines from Lee

Facebook Fights False Newsfeeds « PR, New Media, GTD - Lines from Lee — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:56:07 +0000

[...] Fights False Newsfeeds Nick at AllFacebook highlights an extremely important Facebook newsfeed change. Here’s an excerpt: Facebook has announced significant changes to the newsfeed. This is part [...]

By: Tom Joseph

Tom Joseph — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:30:27 +0000

This is a great step towards making the Facebook useful again. Before the app spam was allowed, the News Feed was a handy place allowed me to get the news about the actions generated by my “Friends”.

After the apps were unleashed and figured out that spam was the way to grow, my News Feed has turned into a whole bunch of Flixter notifications “that X challenged Y to take a movie quiz” with X and Y being any two random people from my friends list. Or that I received a video message from Z, even though I didn’t.

In short time, most of the content on my News Feed was app generated junk.

After getting tired of Flixter producing this spam on my friends’s feeds, I’ve uninstalled it, as well as all of the ****-walls. It’s a shame, Flixter could be a useful community application but they shot themselves in the foot by being unscrupulous in their user acquisition tactics.

The next great step would be if I could mute news about specific apps even if those actions were actually initiated by the users. I really don’t care if someone turned vampire or became a pirate…

By: Tom Joseph

Tom Joseph — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:30:27 +0000

In short time, most of the content on my News Feed was app generated junk.

The next great step would be if I could mute news about specific apps even if those actions were actually initiated by the users. I really don’t care if someone turned vampire or became a pirate…

By: My Newsfeed | DotNeil.com

My Newsfeed | DotNeil.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:08:08 +0000

[...] for any socially-orientated site, even if it doesn’t have a super-complicated, VC-funded, news aggregation algorithm behind [...]

By: Luka Kladaric

Luka Kladaric — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:49:14 +0000

great, now can we have the same for people’s mini-feeds? getting sick and tired of the superwall, uberwall, turbowall stuff…

By: Jonathan Kleiman

Jonathan Kleiman — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:27:31 +0000

Once again Facebook’s strategy of closing off loopholes slowly has made it so that only the earliest apps can grow, not the first apps.

I think it’s a step in the right direction.. but I think they should hire some reviewers and make a directory of GOOD applications. Be selective. Not everybody can be a winner. But pick the best.

By: Luka Kladaric

Luka Kladaric — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:49:14 +0000

great, now can we have the same for people’s mini-feeds? getting sick and tired of the superwall, uberwall, turbowall stuff…

By: Jonathan Kleiman

Jonathan Kleiman — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:27:31 +0000

Once again Facebook’s strategy of closing off loopholes slowly has made it so that only the earliest apps can grow, not the first apps.

I think it’s a step in the right direction.. but I think they should hire some reviewers and make a directory of GOOD applications. Be selective. Not everybody can be a winner. But pick the best.