Comments on: 26,000+ Members Petition Facebook’s News "Feed"

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:24:02 +0000

I guess you’re right, after all they will already be losing page views since the stuff is all on one page now.

By: nemik

nemik — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:20:49 +0000

Ryan,

I’m not; they want people coming to site as often as possible and looking at ads.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:23:30 +0000

Nice script! I’m surprised that they didn’t implement that themselves.

By: nemik

nemik — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:36:11 +0000

I just wrote up a little script last night that does just that: transforms the News Feed to RSS.

PHP and all the source is there: [blog.nemik.net]

By: Richard Price

Richard Price — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:19:30 +0000

For non-facebook users who want to find discussion of this new feature (and can’t look at the discussion in the facebook groups) there is activity at the Facebook discussion room [talkface.com]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:50:29 +0000

Iowa State University, but I’m not on Facebook if you’re wondering.

By: natmaster

natmaster — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:41:51 +0000

Ryan wrote:

Unfortunately you can't skip it because they require you to be a student or faculty member at a school. That's kinda what differentiates Facebook from MySpace.

That and the fact that Facebook doesn't suck or look like crap. What college do you goto Ryan?

By: alec

alec — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:18:55 +0000

It’s interesting and it takes some adjusting too. But is actually fun and pretty interesting if you are actually friends with the people you are ‘friends with’ (thus reducing the likelihood of ’stalking’)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:37:14 +0000

Unfortunately you can’t skip it because they require you to be a student or faculty member at a school. That’s kinda what differentiates Facebook from MySpace.

By: liz60

liz60 — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:40:09 +0000

i see we need to be registered in .edu email. i didn’t have a good experience while registering there. can we just skip it or something?