Facebook chat

IAmAsianBoy · 14-07-2011, 05:53 PM

I hate it, or it could just be I hate change.

Ah well.. better get used to it. :L

**cocaine** · 14-07-2011, 05:55 PM

it shows people who are offline and only shows like 25 of them.. have to search for the rest by typing their name in.. useless

Firehorse · 15-07-2011, 12:26 PM

This was predicted to occur for a while now. This is what happens when facebook, and other sites, try and get clever with activity tracking. You may notice that the people it lists are the people who you have recently interacted with, be it commenting on something they do or even just looking at their profile or a photo.

Basically it's facebook telling you who you want to speak to and hiding the people it thinks you don't.

The same thing is happening with other sites. For example in a test one person who is left wing and one person who is right wing were asked to make an identical politically related google search on their PCs, the results were tailored to their political preference and were different for each person.

In my opinion this use of our activity and data is limiting what we see and do on the internet, defeating the entire concept of the world wide web.

This can also have consequences for people's social lives too, e.g. perhaps someone was waiting for someone to come online on facebook, but facebook never showed that person as online. The amount of social damage little things like this could do isn't even measureable, point of facebook defeated?