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21 Sep 2011

Do Facebook have a death wish or something?

Filed Under : Rants

Posted By : ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ | Comments : 28

WTF is with all the changes...

I've seen gradual changes over the last few months but just logged on after getting home from work and the latest update takes the biscuit! What the f**k have they done to the layout!?!

Rather than your HOME page display status's/comments/activity in chronological order (which makes sense), they've now decided that we'd rather see 'Top Stories From The Last Day' in an order which doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And this is just one of many of the new crappy updates.

Shouldn't WE be the one's who decide what WE would rather see, as opposed to what the numbskulls at Facebook think we'd prefer to see?

I've noticed a few slight changes to our band 'page' too...just hope the people on our fans list fathom out what the feck is going on before Facebook alienate it's users.

Mr. Zuckerberg....SORT IT OUT!!

Rant over.

Comments

# Posted by TEX & THE HARDCORE TROUBAD... - 21/09/2011, 18:27 (GMT)

Its the reason I'm on here answerin this ;-(

# Posted by Willow (of somebig™Fish) (Reti... - 21/09/2011, 18:32 (GMT)

"Shouldn't WE be the one's who decide what WE would rather see, as opposed to what the numbskulls at Facebook think we'd prefer to see? "

haha ... kind of like the argument, shouldn't we be able to see what we want to see on NWB rather than what Paul wants to foist upon us??

Do we pay for FB? How come we should have a say??

Don't get me wrong, i think it's absolutely crap, but i won't lose any sleep over it.

yet!

lol

# Posted by ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ - 21/09/2011, 18:45 (GMT)

Absolutely Willow, I certainly won't lose any sleep over it either. It's just frustrating when everyone gets used to a certain layout/interface then all of a sudden it changes, not just subtle changes either.

I remember when Mr NWB/Paul asked community members here our opinion on switching to a new type of forum but most people prefered to stick with the current layout (don't fix if not broken type of thing).

Anyway, the blog was more a rant than a debate. I just needed to let off some steam, roll on 5-a-side with the 45's & Best of Foo tomorrow hehe.

Dean

# Posted by Chipps the Bassist - 21/09/2011, 19:06 (GMT)

Totally agree with you mate! Very annoying when you just want to catch up with ya mates and you get yesterdays statuses instead! They should definitely let the user decide what they want for themselves!

Back to myspace, anyone? :P

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 21/09/2011, 19:39 (GMT)

# Posted by ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ - 21/09/2011, 20:07 (GMT)

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 21/09/2011, 20:10 (GMT)

i thought that at first too, but its free and up to them i guess, not really anything major compared to previous changes now ive looked at it!

# Posted by Stonecycle - 21/09/2011, 20:47 (GMT)

There's a guy in the states I know who has been posting porno videos all day in a bid to have his account deleted in protest! apparently you can't delete your account - just set it to inactive. The cheek.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 21/09/2011, 20:51 (GMT)

"# Posted by Stonecycle - 21/09/2011, 20:47 (GMT)

There's a guy in the states I know who has been posting porno videos all day in a bid to have his account deleted in protest! apparently you can't delete your account - just set it to inactive. The cheek."

What a dick. So other people get porn vids up on their feeds because some "internet avenger" gets pissy about a social networking site? Good grief.

# Posted by the stories - 21/09/2011, 20:52 (GMT)

hope it dont end up as bad as my space ,yeah its a big pisser offer .

# Posted by deceased - 21/09/2011, 23:22 (GMT)

we dont like change do we derdrie !!

# Posted by Jez (Route 69) - 21/09/2011, 23:29 (GMT)

change is always bad!!! much better when we had leeches and proper alchemists!!!

:0)

# Posted by Stu (dose) - 21/09/2011, 23:59 (GMT)

well i like it - mainly cos people's outrage is rather entertaining though.

It's had 'top' stories as default for a while as far as I'm aware anyway but they've just neatened it up a bit - and even if not it's hardly worth getting stressed about. ;) - see you all on Google+ maybe

# Posted by LA80 [mark] :o) - 22/09/2011, 13:09 (GMT)

well i think its crap.... and i was sooo annoyed that Mrs LA80 felt the back of my hand when i logged on last night......AND i used my ring hand!!!! So now Mrs LA80 is also rather deflated by the new layout as well......Good girl.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 13:12 (GMT)

Actually, I just found a use for it. Funny what turns up in the feed:

"Alec Martin: Started when 'somebody' spiked the NT website...thought it was funny at first, but Rob pointed out it was still there (and made worse) after 3 months. He suggested legal action. Anyway its been mysteriously removed now...sick of NWB anyway, just money grabbing prima donnas."

Thanks a lot Alec. Not.

Alec Martin: And actually somebody hacked one of my accounts on there!

One of? Hmmmm.

# Posted by ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ - 22/09/2011, 13:38 (GMT)

You're on fire today Mick. I must now add Alec as a friend.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 13:43 (GMT)

Hahahah. I'd do it too, but he couldn't afford me :o/

# Posted by ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ - 22/09/2011, 13:45 (GMT)

In fact no need to add, it's there for all to see.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 13:48 (GMT)

Yup. Fun, huh?

# Posted by ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ - 22/09/2011, 13:58 (GMT)

Spiffing...surely he knew it'd get back here. Supposedly I have 12 friends in common with him for a start...

# Posted by ST Photography - VIVA LA COMMU... - 22/09/2011, 14:02 (GMT)

There's a few people fallen foul of Facebook on here.

If you're going to talk about people behind their backs, for goodness sake please be careful.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 14:03 (GMT)

Don't really care mate. Burned bridges and all that eh? Ironically NT are doing BOTH gigs this weekend we had to cancel due to the singers wife giving birth to twins. Will be calling the venues to see what's said, you can be sure of that ;o)

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 14:07 (GMT)

"If you're going to talk about people behind their backs, for goodness sake please be careful."

Best to do it up front mate. At least you know where you stand ;o)

# Posted by ST Photography - VIVA LA COMMU... - 22/09/2011, 14:19 (GMT)

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 14:07 (GMT)
"If you're going to talk about people behind their backs, for goodness sake please be careful."
Best to do it up front mate. At least you know where you stand ;o)

Indeed.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 22/09/2011, 14:22 (GMT)

........as you'll no doubt see from my status ;o)

# Posted by ST Photography - VIVA LA COMMU... - 22/09/2011, 14:26 (GMT)

Bastardo!!

# Posted by ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ - 22/09/2011, 14:28 (GMT)

Agreed Asa. I've always kept my personal profile seperate to the band, apart from a small group of NWBers who I class as friends, apart from that, everyone on my friends list wouldn't even know what NWB was.

Funny what you read on Facebook though - just the other day I saw a post on another band page which I think was aimed at us, if that's their way of trying to boost their own popularity then so be it. We've learned to just laugh shit like that off now.

# Posted by John Wilkinson: - 22/09/2011, 16:03 (GMT)

@ The Sugar Bullets.....

Welcome to the wacky world of Tribute bands ;-)

You would not believe the underhanded things that go on in there ;-)

Glad I am out of it all now to be honest as always hated that part of the "scene"

Best wishes

John

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