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Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post
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#22where's Facebook going with this, seriously? I already leave almost every group I'm forced into(cause I can't chose if someone 'invite me' to it), the two I decided to keep I barely ever look and have to change the settings so that shit stops notifying me for stupid shit I'm not interested Also, I had been aching to silence(unsub) everyone in there because it just feel like a fucking noisy echo chamber with almost no…
Facebook is social in the way 'the cable guy' is social
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#23.aspx? Did not see that coming.
While odd for what has historically been a PHP shop, .aspx shouldn't be too surprising: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21458486/
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#24Stalker-esq. FB is on a roll of strange product decisions and 1 star apps. Oy.
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#25Stalking - excellent!
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#26I think this works in the chat but don't see the use of it in a group. I thought I wouldn't like it when it was announced for the chat but now it's nice to see a "seen" message. This kind of thing is a pressure to engage faster since you know when the other person has read something you sent to them in a one-on-one conversation. Then again, as others have mentioned, how can FB know if I've seen something or not. Surely, we'll have eyeball-following cameras in everything soon.
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#27Probably as a way to show visual "engagement" for companies that are on Facebook but don't get a lot of likes. Its more derivative crap. We can call them "seens". And of course there the creep factor. I'm having a hard time determining if Facebook is just terrible, low value, and creepy, or I'm just cynical about Facebook. Probably both.
This is a feature for groups, not for pages (the way companies generally interact with people who use Facebook). Groups are generally created by people for groups of people that already meet/know each other in person or to discuss a shared interest, not by companies (unless they're company-internal groups, I suppose).
They are for things like for a bowling team in a league or a user group or other ad-hoc group of people who want to communicate with each other - co-ordinate dates and times, send out last-minute updates. The hope, as I understand it, is that it will reduce confusion/anxiety/overcommunication over who hasn't yet read something ("Did Mike read the update that mentioned he is supposed to bring the projector? Should I send him a direct message/phone him?").
Pages already have Insights which gives them aggregate-only demographic data about the audience who has interacted with a particular post ("52/48% female/male, 80% US, ...").
(A Facebook engineer, but not involved in this feature.)
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#28Wow, this feature and the comment history feature(when editing a comment) make me uncomfortable. They might as well begin showing you who is seeing your profile and how much.
What about the comment history feature makes you uncomfortable?
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#29where's Facebook going with this, seriously? I already leave almost every group I'm forced into(cause I can't chose if someone 'invite me' to it), the two I decided to keep I barely ever look and have to change the settings so that shit stops notifying me for stupid shit I'm not interested Also, I had been aching to silence(unsub) everyone in there because it just feel like a fucking noisy echo chamber with almost no…
I'm sorry you are having a bad experience.
It sounds like you have accepted some friend requests from some noisy/energetic people, and/or from people that you perhaps don't really care about. My experience is that unfriending people I don't actually care about (people I've only interacted with a few times a long time ago, for example), making a close friends list (people I care a lot about), and moving the 25%-ish people I care the least about to the acquaintance list has improved my experience a lot.
There are always some unusual cases - a cousin you mostly want to hear things from/about who loves all sorts of games, maybe. For those special cases, you can also control specifically that you don't want to hear from them about games.
I'm not really familiar with problems with events - I get a few event invites a month, and generally they are things I'm interested in going to. How many events are you being invited to? How many different people are involved in inviting you to them?
If you're using Windows, you could also try out the Facebook Messenger app to keep yourself on chat.
(I work at Facebook, but on infrastructure, not products.)
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#30.aspx? Did not see that coming.
It's no different than a Haskell start-up running their blog on Wordpress or Posterous.
Presumably this site is run by FB's comms department, and could be an off-the-shelf system or developed by an external agency. You don't want to tie up your precious engineers on projects that aren't critical to the mission.