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[kirstenl4w]

OK, so the wait while the ads on LJ show themselves is frustrating, but at least when I go to read my friends page, I see everything. Facebook, on the other hand, is driving me to drink. An "algorithm" decides what I need to see in my live feed. I've tried adding people in through the "edit options" so I can see everything, and it still doesn't change it. Then I'll refresh, and as if by magic, everything is there. Another refresh and it disappears. I don't understand - I don't understand how to get to see everything I want, because it doesn't work when I follow the directions, I don't understand why FB feels the need to constantly fuck with things, and I don't understand why they aren't losing their user base left and right because of all this shit.

I give up for now. I need chocolate. And a drink, but I'm still at work.

Comments

[kirstenl4w.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm getting too. I also don't mind the new layout so much, and that's not what I'm having an issue with. It's the feed problem, and it doesn't even happen on a regular basis. Sometimes you just get lucky when refreshing, other times not.

[ziola.livejournal.com]

My husband blames "the cloud". When Person A posts it goes first to one server and is farmed out to the others from there. If Person B then reloads and gets a server to which Person A's message hasn't yet arrived, Person B sees nothing.

I know cloud computing is "the way of the future" and whatnot, but this sucks.

[kirstenl4w.livejournal.com]

Nah, I still think it's this pseudo-popularity thing that FB is trying out.

[missalleysun.livejournal.com]

CRAZY making. I almost cried in Panera because damnit, I just could not find what I needed to find. I was in a hurry and this morning, it was all where it was supposed to be. I use fbook primarily as a way of keeping in touch with the high schoolers that I work with in my volunteer orgs. They don't respond to my calls or emails but they facebook me like no one's business. If I can't see their stuff or get caught up on them easily, then I don't need fbook.

[kirstenl4w.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should submit a comment to them about this. If you use FB as a tool for work, and they change things and basically take that tool away, then they need to know about it.