Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Journal #1
What I hate about facebook is its recent additions of basically everything it can cram into itself. What appealled to me originally about facebook was the simplicity of it all. It was just a profile page, a way to send messages back and forth between friends so you can keep in touch with everyone, and maybe looking at a couple of pictures. Now with the introduction of applications, there's just a ridiculous amount of useless crap on facebook. Every day I constantly get spammed with invites to install this, install that, this friend super poked you, do you want to go bowling. NO! I don't need any of these things. I hate how cluttered it all has gotten. Before this recent update, when you looked at some peoples facebook page all it was was a wall of applications. That's what I hate about facebook, how bloated it has gotten.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Prompt #2: April 1
How much are you worth in the Facebook network? Could you put a dollar sign on this? Why or why not?
Do you think that you could be worth more or less than some of your friends...why or why not?
How would start to measure who is the most "expensive" or "price worthy" node in the Facebook network?
Do you think that you could be worth more or less than some of your friends...why or why not?
How would start to measure who is the most "expensive" or "price worthy" node in the Facebook network?
3/30 Journal: Love Hate Relationship
Facebook and I go way back.
I joined thefacebook.com in late 2004 / early 2005 when I was a senior in high school. I did this mainly because I moved from Texas my senior year in high school and wanted to stay in touch with my friends.
My time and experience here at UoI has taught some ideals when it comes to user interfaces. They must be simple and customizable.
Facebook started out very simple with limited features and things you could do on the site. Overtime they have grown and added many things, including applications, like that of MySpace.com. One way in which they succeeded in keeping many of their members was customizability (if that's a word) of various privacy and profile settings. They seperated out the extra features in a way where one would not get annoyed or overwhelmed by them if they did not want to be.
Recently, at least for me, Facebook has been failing my standards of customizability. They have updated their user interface several times without the option to keep the old standard. People hate change, especially when forced upon them. Although we must deal with it and eventually will learn to like the newer interfaces, every time they implement a new design, we are forced to relearn almost everything.
The newest design is meant to compete with a site called Twitter. Twitter focuses on status updates. I believe it is good for Facebook to keep up with it's competition, but I do not believe changing their site to that of Twitter was a wise idea. Facebook was it's own unique social networking site. People generally use Twitter for the newer phone technologies so they can stay in contact while mobile. I feel Facebook could keep the changes, but allow people to select whether they want a "Twitter type interface" for their phone or the older one for their home pc which people are more familiar with and can navigate easily.
I hate how everything tends to blend in on the pages because now there is a picture next to everything.
I hate how they made the default settings show status' on the newsfeed and pushed the other highlights to a small column on the right.
I joined thefacebook.com in late 2004 / early 2005 when I was a senior in high school. I did this mainly because I moved from Texas my senior year in high school and wanted to stay in touch with my friends.
My time and experience here at UoI has taught some ideals when it comes to user interfaces. They must be simple and customizable.
Facebook started out very simple with limited features and things you could do on the site. Overtime they have grown and added many things, including applications, like that of MySpace.com. One way in which they succeeded in keeping many of their members was customizability (if that's a word) of various privacy and profile settings. They seperated out the extra features in a way where one would not get annoyed or overwhelmed by them if they did not want to be.
Recently, at least for me, Facebook has been failing my standards of customizability. They have updated their user interface several times without the option to keep the old standard. People hate change, especially when forced upon them. Although we must deal with it and eventually will learn to like the newer interfaces, every time they implement a new design, we are forced to relearn almost everything.
The newest design is meant to compete with a site called Twitter. Twitter focuses on status updates. I believe it is good for Facebook to keep up with it's competition, but I do not believe changing their site to that of Twitter was a wise idea. Facebook was it's own unique social networking site. People generally use Twitter for the newer phone technologies so they can stay in contact while mobile. I feel Facebook could keep the changes, but allow people to select whether they want a "Twitter type interface" for their phone or the older one for their home pc which people are more familiar with and can navigate easily.
I hate how everything tends to blend in on the pages because now there is a picture next to everything.
I hate how they made the default settings show status' on the newsfeed and pushed the other highlights to a small column on the right.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Prompt #1: March 30
Okie dokie. Here goes #1. Please respond to this as a thread, don't start a new entry.
This prompt is due by 1pm on Monday, March 30.
The Prompt
Take a look at your network of Facebook friends. How many friends do you have? What networks are they in? How many friends do your friends have (a lot? a little?) Is there such a thing as too many friends?
Ever notice weird friend connections in the "friends you have in common" section? Does that give you a "its a small world after all" feeling? Does it give you a different feeling?
Is your network of Facebook friends inherently better than any one else's network? For example, is your network better than my mom's network that only contains 12 other people? Why or why not?
This prompt is due by 1pm on Monday, March 30.
The Prompt
Take a look at your network of Facebook friends. How many friends do you have? What networks are they in? How many friends do your friends have (a lot? a little?) Is there such a thing as too many friends?
Ever notice weird friend connections in the "friends you have in common" section? Does that give you a "its a small world after all" feeling? Does it give you a different feeling?
Is your network of Facebook friends inherently better than any one else's network? For example, is your network better than my mom's network that only contains 12 other people? Why or why not?
Your First Journal (awww...)
Hey 199ers,
Remember that you have your first journal due some time the week of April 30th. To help you get started, why don't you journal about the things you hate about Facebook. Tell me what you hate and why. Need inspiration? Check out the 25 Things I Hate about Facebook video.
For your journal, just start a new thread, no need to reply to this one.
Cheers!
K
Remember that you have your first journal due some time the week of April 30th. To help you get started, why don't you journal about the things you hate about Facebook. Tell me what you hate and why. Need inspiration? Check out the 25 Things I Hate about Facebook video.
For your journal, just start a new thread, no need to reply to this one.
Cheers!
K
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Afterthoughts
I think I must be a pretty private person, because people tend to have all sorts of information on facebook about themselves, phone number, address, all sorts of information on what they like and what they do. However, at some point in the last few years, I decided to take all that information down. The most striking things that I notice are that
1. No one knows when my birthday is.
2. People tend not to know what year I am in school.
I suppose people tend to have their birthdays on facebook so everyone knows when to get them a present. I don't really feel like putting my birthday up because...well, I'm not really sure. It makes it more interesting. And I respect people more when they actually know my birthday. This is kind of a silly post, but I think it's an interesting observation.
1. No one knows when my birthday is.
2. People tend not to know what year I am in school.
I suppose people tend to have their birthdays on facebook so everyone knows when to get them a present. I don't really feel like putting my birthday up because...well, I'm not really sure. It makes it more interesting. And I respect people more when they actually know my birthday. This is kind of a silly post, but I think it's an interesting observation.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Lindsay/Jay - Final Project
Questions:
1. How many facebook friends do you have?
We asked this question as a basis for the other qualitative questions that were brought up.
2. Do you have any friends that you have not met in person? If so, how many?
The prevalence of "e-friends" is increasing, and it is possible to be friends with someone that you don't necessarily know IRL (in real life), but we were curious as to the explanations of why people might add someone random, like Andrew Carnegy for instance.
3. How many people on your friends list have you only met once?
Facebook, and the Internet itself for that matter, facilitates relationships without the need for physical proximity. Many times, particularly in college, we might meet someone at a party or through another friend, and even though you might not become best of friends with them on this first encounter, you might want to get to know them better. Then the question of "when is it acceptable to add someone on facebook?" comes into play.
4. How many people on your friends list do you see less than once annually?
Similarly to the previous question, it's possible to have friends (maybe from high school or grade school) that you barely ever see at all but still want to stay in contact with.
5. How many friends do you have from the school you currently attend? Does this network have the largest amount of your friends in it?
We used this to create a ratio of how many people out of the total amount of friends were in their "main network", to see if the majority of their facebook friends came from the people that they interacted with on a daily basis.
6. What network has the second most amount of friends?
Generally, for people in college, this network tended to be their high school. It could also have been a regional network, as that overlaps with school networks.
7. Do you have any relatives on facebook?
This related to the idea of how we view facebook as a connection with our peers, and also our privacy (e.g. if our parents are on facebook, do we have them on the limited profile list?)
8. Do you friend everyone that requests you, even if you don't know them?
This question was asked to gauge responses to the Andrew Carnegy experiment.
9. How do you qualify someone who is "a facebook friend" v. "a real friend"?
This was our only qualitative question, and was asked because we wanted quotes about how we perceive e-friendships, and what the criteria must be met in order to be a real friend, or if one is even better than the other.
10. Do you have any friends that you met THROUGH facebook and not in real life?
We wanted to see how facebook/the internet actually facilitates real-life relationships on its own, without ever actually requiring two people to meet each other in person.
1. How many facebook friends do you have?
We asked this question as a basis for the other qualitative questions that were brought up.
2. Do you have any friends that you have not met in person? If so, how many?
The prevalence of "e-friends" is increasing, and it is possible to be friends with someone that you don't necessarily know IRL (in real life), but we were curious as to the explanations of why people might add someone random, like Andrew Carnegy for instance.
3. How many people on your friends list have you only met once?
Facebook, and the Internet itself for that matter, facilitates relationships without the need for physical proximity. Many times, particularly in college, we might meet someone at a party or through another friend, and even though you might not become best of friends with them on this first encounter, you might want to get to know them better. Then the question of "when is it acceptable to add someone on facebook?" comes into play.
4. How many people on your friends list do you see less than once annually?
Similarly to the previous question, it's possible to have friends (maybe from high school or grade school) that you barely ever see at all but still want to stay in contact with.
5. How many friends do you have from the school you currently attend? Does this network have the largest amount of your friends in it?
We used this to create a ratio of how many people out of the total amount of friends were in their "main network", to see if the majority of their facebook friends came from the people that they interacted with on a daily basis.
6. What network has the second most amount of friends?
Generally, for people in college, this network tended to be their high school. It could also have been a regional network, as that overlaps with school networks.
7. Do you have any relatives on facebook?
This related to the idea of how we view facebook as a connection with our peers, and also our privacy (e.g. if our parents are on facebook, do we have them on the limited profile list?)
8. Do you friend everyone that requests you, even if you don't know them?
This question was asked to gauge responses to the Andrew Carnegy experiment.
9. How do you qualify someone who is "a facebook friend" v. "a real friend"?
This was our only qualitative question, and was asked because we wanted quotes about how we perceive e-friendships, and what the criteria must be met in order to be a real friend, or if one is even better than the other.
10. Do you have any friends that you met THROUGH facebook and not in real life?
We wanted to see how facebook/the internet actually facilitates real-life relationships on its own, without ever actually requiring two people to meet each other in person.
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