Comments on: Sorry Facebook, But That Stuff I Share on Your Site is Not the “Story of My Life”

By: MargoGiron

MargoGiron — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:21:36 +0000

As a Facebook User who had it since it was called THE Facebook and it was only for .EDU account users. This Facebook is really dumb. The old Facebook was more for people to interact and help each other out with classes and job search, and maybe hook up. Now it’s nothing but people posting constant pictures of their kids life, posting pictures of what they will eat, Stocking old flames, pointless status updates, cyber bullying, and more… as if I care. I am not fooled and people who say the new timeline is great… like the guys says, you need to live your life.

This is not a timeline of your life, but more of a timeline of your social networking history.

Of course I don’t post anything I don’t want up their, however I only log on to my facebook every 3 months for 10 min and that is it. There is nothing new on Facebook to actually care about anymore. I am now more on Twitter and I am trying G+ now.

By: MarkosGiannopoulos

MarkosGiannopoulos — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:06:58 +0000

@hybriddomainer The problem for me is that I’ve been posting/sharing stuff on Facebook for years now. All this content was not very important (just thing I found interesting at the time) and was not intended to become an archived, easily accessible, representation of myself. The fact that the (old) wall feature only showed the last 10-20 posts and going back in time was very hard, meant these posts had a short lifespan. Now Facebook is making it easy (with no other alternative other than deleting posts one by one) for all my “friends” to dig up what I’ve been posting 4 years ago. Bottom line, when Facebook introduces such major changes we should have the tools to manage them easily. Otherwise they will have the negative reactions that they are getting.

By: banderson

banderson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:13:06 +0000

@hybriddomainer This. If anything, I think the new changes made Facebook more relevant. I’ve been on G+ for months and was fairly close to bailing from Fbook completely, but I’m kind of intrigued by the new features (and the other new announcements). Maybe they’ll turn it around after all.

By: banderson

banderson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:07:36 +0000

Sooooooo… why are you on Facebook to begin with, exactly?

By: hybriddomainer

hybriddomainer — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:44:20 +0000

Here is an idea if you don’t want Facebook to display it, don’t add it. Secondly people need to stop infusing their meaning of life as its universal. Try living life harder, I know people that would say by you writing this article and me replying we need to live harder. To them writing is not living. That’s their opinion.

Facebook is there if you like it, use it, if not move along. No one cares. I think people just like to hear them self talk in this attenion based economy.

By: hollowdookie

hollowdookie — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:37:02 +0000

well i may not be an older person (19 years old), however i forcefully discovered that #facebook is sort-of an exploit to ‘screwing’ up one’s life, relationship, and attempting to make a waste of time. I did not nor ever attempted to date on facebook or intentionally make friends, except that these people added me.. eventually the site became as addicting as videogames for awhile, until having watched #thesocialnetwork, the movie changed my perspective interest on facebook and decided to leave facebook, it worked after few attempts, up to now, had not used it for 6 months. the idea to make a “story of my life” on facebook seems more like bull****! consider writing a memoir or a biography about your life instead of using facebook to accomplish this, or write a series of blogs with images. My point is that I agree with the person above, unless you are an aspiring artist, singer/songwriter, actor/actress, either have a profession of some sort which requires the attention of many to fulfill a goal of reaching towards an audience then this article would not affect you in any way

By: Bjorn Larsen

Bjorn Larsen — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:14:40 +0000

Dead on. Classic Silicon Valley Asperger myopia.

By: Bjorn Larsen

Bjorn Larsen — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:13:56 +0000

Dead on.

By: azantow

azantow — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:10:12 +0000

Old people won’t have as much of their lives on Facebook than younger people. I started using it in junior high so it will actually work for me. Sorry Facebook isn’t designing their features for the older generations.

By: Peeta

Peeta — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:41:36 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Additionally, what do people think of Facebook owning their life story and changing how it’s displayed whenever they want? It makes more sense for someone like WordPress to get involved at this level since they basically let you go install the platform wherever you want. Even Google+ goes to decent lengths to make exporting all your content easy. I feel like this is a nice interface update for Facebook but an overreach for how it was positioned. They should’ve at least addressed privacy and content ownership on some level.