The beginning of the article kept my attention, and continuing into the complaints of users of the new Facebook since I, too, believe that the new Facebook is very hard to use. But as the article grew into its third page, there were so many personal stories of Facebook users and their story of how it relates to the story. As it does show that Facebook has a very large amount of people on the site, it gets confusing to the reader because the many stories are similar, and it is like reading personal story after personal story. If the amount of personal stories were cut down, perhaps the article would have been easier to read and more intersting
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Is Facebook Growing up too fast?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html?pagewanted=1&em&adxnnlx=1238414606-45IjSo7dksUby6NFqcZnaQ This article had an interesting topic since I can relate to it. The article summarizes the great success of the co-founders of Facebook, including appearing on Oprah, and the vast amount of people who have joined the popular website. It also includes personal stories of people who have used Facebook to reconnect with old friends and lost family members. The article then goes into talking about the changes to Facebook that has site users in outrage. “The changes just feel very juvenile,” Ms. Rabban says. “It’s just not addressing the needs of my generation and my peers. In my circle, everyone is pretty devastated about it.” Even though site users are confused by the changes of Facebook, the creators are not listening to their users complaints. “It’s not a democracy,” Mr. Cox says of his company’s relationship with users. “We are here to build an Internet medium for communicating and we think we have enough perspective to do that and be caretakers of that vision."
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I can totally relate to feeling annoyed with the seemingly constant changes of the Facebook layout lately. It was fine how it was. The current layout is to me, very impractical and not really what Facebook was meant to be. I really don't need to see what everyone wrote on everyone else's walls, and don't need to see everyone's status as well. The most irritating part is that at the top, you can edit your status, but you can't read what it says. So to check your own status you have to go to your own page.
However, I must say, one quote by a Facebook user in the article, "In my circle, everyone is pretty devastated about it.” was a little extreme. I mean really? Devastated? That actually made me laugh.
As far as the article goes, I do agree that the recounts of personal experiences in the article grew excessive after awhile, I think they could have cut down on a few of the member quotes and stories and the article would still have been equally as effective and balanced between the two sides.
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