a look at the new facebook

There are a number of things in the new fb that are a #Win. Here are just a few

1. The right activity bar that shows you what others are doing even thought they might not think they're being seen. Remember when I said that most people are usually online? These ones who just hide theirs activity and just don't want you to know that they've been online. Now every time they like a page, comment on their own photo, status, activity or someone else's you will know thanks to the sidebar on the left.

2. Subscribing to people's updates is a really nice idea especially when they've not put up privacy for their updates. Sort of copies twitters follow style but it's a nice way to get someone's update without them having to be listed as a friend on your profile. #Win

3. Favorites are also another thing I think will help me see what content I want to see. You don't exactly want to see a certain persons update at some time and maybe you want to see someone's updates at another certain time. A good distinction is during weekdays and at weekends. You can agree that the talk on the feed is usually different for different people on your live feed

4. Recent Stories and 'From Earlier that day' You may want to see what's latest and what interesting happened earlier that day. However I may never know what criteria they use to arrive at what's interesting for you especially now that what interests different people doesn't necessarily follow a pattern, formula or curve on a Cartesian plane

word is, anybody who writes code, design or is involved in thinking about the development of a part of an application appreciates what facebook has done to come up with the new site

I am going to update a status

There's a common statement among many of your friends "I don't facebook much these days."
I find it rather annoying cause this is mostly the reason why our online content does not get generated as much as it should because of these people who less often post/update their online profiles as much as they used to some time back. People were fast to try out all features of facebook against social humanity until now they don't want to use any of the same anymore.

There are plainly two reasons i'd use to explain why people don't want to use fb as much as they used to back then,

First of these reasons is that they got bored of facebooking, or that it's less fun these days. Why would you say it's less fun yet you now have more friends so that should mean a higher possibility of interesting people. These lot who use this reason are mostly the ones who talked to everyone, flirted with everyone else and were in a relationship with all of the remaining ones. What's bad is that they log in daily to these sites but rarely want to get noticed so they carry out no activity at all. They keep seeing your updates daily occasionally 'liking' and after 6 months they say hi on and claim that you've been lost and how they've missed YEW. Ok that would be a good stunt if you were doing some professional PR for yourself, elsewhere you've failed cause this conversation doesn't even last then again you begin another journey of months before saying the same thing to the same people.

The second category is the ones who actually got busy and really don't have much time to talk to people on social media. I don't hate on these group for their sincerity but the bottom-line is that they also deserted social media.


I'm going to belong to none of these groups. For as long as I'm able to i shall tweet,update my status, make a new connection on linked in, add another person on google+ and share good material on the internet. I shall participate to healthy discussions online and read more blogs online. I shall be part of the internet society for as long as i can.
this i believe will be good of me as a citizen of the web.

shall you update you're status with me and keep online content alive?