At the recent F8 Developers Conference on September 22, Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook announced many new features of his social network. Here is a list of some of the changes:
1. The Ticker – Lightweight version of the News Feed, sitting on the right side of your screen. All the trivial information such as “X commented on”, “X likes Y’s photo”, “X is attending…” is sent there. Most of the Facebook users were outraged by this feature, complaining that it negates their privacy settings.
2. Subscribe button – Facebook will now let you subscribe to someone (even if he/she is not your friend). This way you can get their public updates in your News Feed. Also you can use the Subscribe button to fine tune all the information you are getting from your friends. For example you will be able to hide all those annoying game updates.
3. New Friend button with Smart Lists – Whenever you hover over the Friend button you will have new options such as “Close Friend” or “Acquaintance”. The first will automatically set their Subscription button to “All Posts” and the second automatically sets it to “Only Important.”
4. Say good bye to “Profile” button – Instead of the three options “Profile”, “Home”, “Account” now you will have a small thumbnail with the username you are logged in as.
5. The Timeline – Say “Hi” to the upcoming Facebook’s face-lift called the Timeline. Zuckerberg says “[The Timeline is] … your entire Facebook life condensed into one page”. It will track your updates for the rest of your time as a Facebook user. As they say “Timeline is your collection of all the top photos, posts and apps that help tell your story”.
Some of the new features sound good, some not so much. What do you guys think?
Some of the new features sound good, some not so much. What do you guys think?
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