Really. It is.
In fact, I never really liked it that much.
I remember when they added the newsfeed feature. I HATED it so much then. Couldn’t bring myself to read it or even look at it. It gave me a feeling that it’s all about prying. It made me feel that Facebook was such a nosy media, just by adding the newsfeed. And it is so public. I didn’t do anything for months so that it won’t show up about me. It took me a year to stop clicking on my own “Profile” every time I logged in to Facebook – to stay away from the “home”, where all the data was thrown in my face(book).
The only time that I used to actually read it was when they had the “Like/Didn’t Like” X/V check feature next to each item. That made me feel that it was some sort of task on my “to do” list when I was logged in, which I should complete. To make sure I responded to every item (most of them with X). And I never looked at an item more than once, because it was already taken care of.
But now, I scheme through it very briefly, and miss a lot of things, because it is just not interesting enough. The nosiness aspect is not as much of an issue, because most users now joined facebook after the feature has been included, and are aware of the fact that their every move is broadcasted.
But I just don’t feel that the data there is of importance to me. It is (mostly) just simply boring.
June 2, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Check out FriendFeed, much more interesting. Assuming, of course, that you subscribe to people that interest you.
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(This is how I found about this post
Cheers,
Eitan.
June 2, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Good idea. Though I think that there’s a chance that I’ll find it boring as well.
But there ARE things that may very well interest me. For instance – events, blog posts, but the vast majority of things (“x and y are facebook friends”; “w has challenged z to a game of q” ) don’t.