Saturday, February 25, 2012

Facebook Ideas

I'm a huge fan of Facebook. I love the website for everything it is. However with looking at the site, there's a few ideas that I would definitely love to have as a user. Note, this isn't anything Zuckerburg and the coders in blue may have up their sleeves.  I don't have any idea what they're doing to change it. These are all merely my own ideas.


  • Ticker - no one really likes this on its own. But everyone likes the newsfeed. However with the way the newsfeed is laid out right now, you get "top stories" (from like, the entire week, and things most people don't care about), and recent news. Why not get rid of top stories, and utilize the ticker as your homepage, where it's a constant stream of news flowing, and then when you're on another page aside from the home newsfeed page, it goes back to the mini ticker? Some would question about missing news pieces they might want to see. Well that's where the top stories comes back into play, and from your friends list, the top stories (posts that have the most comments) would be compiled into hour by hour lists of the day. So if you log off at 1PM, and get back on at 7PM, and want to see what you missed, you can check the top stories from each of those hour blocks (1-2pm, 2-3, 3-4, and so on). 
  • This one might stir up controversy, but just like what you can do with yourself, it would be great to go back and see what people liked/commented on from the past, and not just their own posts on their time line. Open the activity log for everyone, and not just closed off to each person.
  • On your timeline, stop showing friends on a bigger window to the right. There's a reason you have that smaller window at the top next to your info. 
And for now, that'll be it. But as ideas come to mind, I'll post more. What do you think of these?

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