I’ve had a love affair with Facebook for almost two years now. My husband doesn’t much mind because it keeps me busy and I’ve been able to generate new friendships and rekindle old friendships. I’m sad to say, though that the love affair is getting close to over. Why?
Simple really–Facebook has stopped listening to me and is doing all sorts of things without consulting me on what I want. Let’s face it–I’m their target market. I spend countless hours online finding just the right things to post to my profile. I even have the Facebook application on my iPhone. I have hundreds of pictures, thousands of posts, thousands of friends. In fact, I’m ranked 98.5 out of 100 for Facebook users per Grader.com.
I’m not alone. there is a new Facebook group called “CHANGE FACEBOOK BACK TO NORMAL” 1,200,000+ members. The real issue is this…over the last bit time Facebook has actually changed some the things that we’ve come to rely on and use. The most recent wave of changes have more to do with the news feed and the live feed. I don’t particularly like that Facebook is deciding which particular people end up my newsfeed.
Can you say Facebook fail?? It’s even more infuriating that there isn’t even a little note– hey here are your some changes. Let me tell you how it affects you or if you don’t like these changes let us know. It’s like waking up in your room and finding out somebody has moved all your furniture.
Maybe because what I do for living is marketing, I’m even more surprised. If I had a website with tens of millions of users who showed up almost every day and stayed there, I’d be pretty sure to ask these guys what you think of this or what you think of that, and get a consensus before I made a huge change.
I hope Facebook gets the message and doesn’t turn irelevant like MySpace did. I really don’t want to break up but I will if they don’t start listening.