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When Facebook added commenting to users’ shared items, the feature instantly took off. The only problem with the feature was that it practically made wall posts obsolete. Replying to one of your friends’ wall posts required a deeper time investment (at least a few seconds). Thankfully Facebook has updated the feature so that you can now reply to wall posts directly from your profile or wherever the wall post is written.
Interestingly, a comment which is posted in response to another wall post does not become another wall post. It makes sense but definitely makes the “Wall-to-Wall” feature a bit more confusing (are you confused yet?). The one area where the wall comments have not yet been upgraded is on public profiles. If a user posts on the wall, you cannot reply via a comment yet.
I’m assuming that this will be updated in a matter of days but it’s definitely a welcomed update. Facebook is known for constantly refining their products through small adjustments and this one was a major adjustment as far as I’m concerned. Were you getting annoyed with the “Wall-to-Wall” feature or was that just me? What other features do you want Facebook to update?
Absolutely happy they implemented this feature. Already notice a change in the amount of conversations and also gives the ease of viewing the entire dialogue on my profile page w/o having to click ‘wall-to-wall’.
I prefer the wall-to-wall for some things, still — because on long threads, it’s difficult to reply to one person, and I’d much rather use the wall for that than saturate several dozen people’s email with another “Helen also added a comment” post. I’m running into this a lot because I’ve discovered that being in a family way leads to more congratulatory posts than even my birthday yielded. (And congratulations for what? It’s not here yet, people!)
Restoring a few would be welcome:
- see in the newsfeed when my friends befriend other people
- see in the newsfeed when my friends join groups/become fans
And I don’t know if this is strictly an upgrade, but doing more with the ‘Hide’ button in the newsfeed. Right now I can hide the friend or the application. What if I don’t want to hide the application, but only make it a one-line item? It might be useful to be reminded of a certain TV show, but it doesn’t need to take up a third of the screen (pic, text, two lines for “Comments” and “Likes” - the latter of which are fairly useless bits of info and don’t warrant two lines worth of vertical space).
What I end up doing due to the limited functionality is simply hide all quiz-type applications altogether. And I’m considering dropping other memberships because everything takes up so much vertical space in the new layout.
It would really help to have some functionality to allow users to put certain things in summarized form.
I agree. Friend activities in the news feed are a must. It’s nice to have the comment feature. The Wall to Wall thing was very confusing and annoying…
We’re not there yet, though.
If someone writes on my wall, the reply should go to their wall. this is going to get confusing.
I wish they would allow a developer to comment on a review. If someone said something negative about your app, you would then have the ability to explain to the user how they might misinterpreted a feature etc…
Of course what we all really want to do is say piss off!! lol
We want back what the Live Feed used to give us. We used to see Friends, Events, Groups, & profile edits in a [compact!!!] Live Feed.
Without Live Feed it’s IMPOSSIBLE to discover new local events, new friend connections, interesting new Groups, see when friends have changed their profile (because they gained/lost an interest/hobby/job/relationship), etc.
For ways to get facebook to fix what they’ve messed-up, read the action steps in
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=61010781930
Maybe I’m missing something.
Where is the wall? On the new beautiful Facebook, the wall is available only for pages.
Even if I search “wall” (well, “bacheca” in the italian version) I’m redirected here:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2719290516&ref=ts
That means that the wall is not even an option anymore (for users).
By the way, the adjective beautiful was sarcastic.
I would also like to see the option of sharing wall posts. Oftentimes a friend posts something that I know another friend would find of interest or could be of help. It would be a great networking tool.
I too would like to see also the Live Feed come back. The new News Feed is just too clunky when you have oodles of friends. There is always stuff I miss.
Be well, xo-Carla aka OneHealthyGirl.com
It’s kind of complicated whether this is better than wall2wall. I mean, it’s good for others who are not friends with on of the parties to be able to follow a conversation but the wall to wall page was also a fun way to follow a conversation. Oh well, it’s good they let you have both options.
so if someone posts a wall post to my wall, and a friend of mine comments on this, will this be notified to the person who posted the original post?
The problem I see with this is that you are not notified when someone comments on your wall post. I started roaming the ever-confusing facebook settings and could not find anything that allowed me to force Facebook to tell me when someone comments on a wall post that I post on other peoples walls. This is frustrating if you are waiting for a reply on a message and you don’t manually go to that persons page and check the post you made to see if there is a comment.
posting on another person’s wall is convient for everyone but you. the person who comments to your post is the only one who knows they commented on what you wrote. there is no notification feature for this type of comment. the person who sent the original post has to check back to that person’s wall to see the comment, if there is one. the best thing to do is post directly to the other persons wall all the time unless u feel like sharing your thoughts to everyone. then that would be a good time to post on your home wall, not your profile page.