The Future of Facebook  

Posted by Chelsea Aures in

Facebook recently announced all of the new features that will be added in the next 6 months. These features include getting rid of notifications in lieu of a focus on the News Feed and Inbox, a new Application dashboard, and the ability to become a fan of any page on the web, not just a Facebook page. I am interested to see how the public will react to all the changes, as the latest changes have not been too widely accepted.

All of the new features are listed here.

2 comments

Concetta Lestingi   says October 30, 2009 at 3:46 AM

I would be very, very sad to see the notifications go. I do not understand what they mean by moving it to the inbox and stream? Now personally, I am one of those people that is on the live feed and reads EVERY update since the last time I was on Facebook haha but I think I am the minority. The notifications allow users to get updates instantaneously. I would not like messages and notifications to be grouped together, at all. I really like how it is now.

I have been thinking recently that they should have a notification dashboard, I guess you could call it. You know how at the bottom of the page you have your fav apps bookmarked? Well what if when something happened within one of those apps, a little red notification flag appeared on that icon. I think that would be kinda cool because let's face it, a notification that someone has invited you to a group is not as pertinent as getting a notification that you've been tagged in a photo or someone has written on your wall!

This is why I would not like notifications to get grouped with messages, because I get really excited when I get a message lol but not as excited about someone commenting on a status I commented on. So I don't know, I could go on and on, guess just have to wait to see!

Kaity   says October 31, 2009 at 11:37 PM

I think this is interesting, especially to read Concetta's sincere fear of the loss of notifications! I use facebook, but for a college student, I rely on it a lot less than most of my friends and people I know. I think that by getting rid of the notifications it would probably be a poor decision. I have it set in my personal settings so that only the things I am interested in (wall posts, notes, photos, etc) get posted to my newsfeed. So I do not get bombarded by annoying application updates. By doing this, I have no complaints about my newsfeed.

Fan pages...ehh...not too big on my need list, so I guess that doesn't affect me. I do use facebook for a networking tool and to talk with friends and catch up, but not obsessively. Obsessive users may have a completely different outlook.

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