The Facebook Fiasco

Why is everyone so bent out of shape about the new Facebook?

On Tuesday morning the popular social networking site unrolled a new feature dubbed the “News Feed” that allows users to track their friends’ Facebook movements by the minute. For many of Facebook’s 8 million-plus student users, it was too much. Within 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of students nationwide organized themselves to protest the new feature.

When I logged in I was asked if I wanted to see the new “news feeds.” Of course I clicked “yes” and I thought it was great. I love that Mary and Jim are now friends, and that Bill just posted pictures of Barbara drunk and assaulting a campus cop, or that Sandy wrote on Kim’s wall. Why all the hubbub? Now I have up to date, down to the minute, reports of everyone’s latest cyber moves – I have complete virtual knowledge of everyone in my network.

If we aren’t friends yet then friend me now – the whole world will know!

September 7th, 2006 General, World News