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The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Source: Scobleizer

Oct 24, 2009

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Facebook yesterday turned on a bunch of new features on its news feed. It looks a lot more like FriendFeed, even though Facebook claims that the FriendFeed team didn’t work on these new features.

What does it do? Now Facebook mostly displays items that got engagement. You know, comments. Likes. Tagging. Etc.

This makes Facebook much more useful because you only see the items that your friends have found important enough to comment on or “touch” in some way. Overnight my news feed went from something that looked pretty cold and lame to something that has tons of “warmth.”

I am SO GLAD I deleted most of the people I had friended on Facebook and went down to a core group of people because I’m getting some pretty good items there now.

But I notice it now has the thing that most of my friend’s hated about FriendFeed: there are people on my feed I didn’t invite all of a sudden.

Here’s how that happens. Let’s say I’m a friend of Maryam Scoble, my wife. I see all her items. That is cool. But it also displays me any of HER FRIENDS who comment on her items. I might not care

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Eyebee,

Oct 25, 2009

One thing I have always disliked about Facebook is the amount of what I consider to be uninteresting junk in my stream. Perhaps these changes will go a major way to address that. Up until now, the amount of crud has put me off making more use of Facebook.