5 things facebook should change
As almost everyone around, I am a compulsive facebook user, mostly through my netvibes widget and on my mobile. I have passed the 2000 friends and I waiting for some interface and product improvements. Here are my top 5 features needed to make my facebook experience almost perfect:
Add friend process is too complicated:
I really think that facebook should ease the process even more. I still have 700 friends in my waiting list, and to be honest I don’t know how to process them quickly enough. If you are in that list please do apologize. In my opinion Friendfeed did a great job to add friends and should be a good inspiration point. Agreed with LoicLemeur the new interface is already better, but not perfect.
Search in messages:
As more and more people use messaging system, i have some time to browse 10 pages to find few days’ old messages. This is a real concern because no search means no use for old messages. Why not list messages by authors?
Complete newsfeed history:
Once again I can understand the logic of having people to come back often to access their updated timeline, but Friendfeed and netvibes provide the whole newsfeed from day one. I would love to access that and browse through day one if I can. Make the newsfeed searchable like in netvibes would be a great plus.
A better timeline for mobile:
I love facebook mobile, but I feel frustrated as I don’t see the timeline. I am not talking about the iphone version (mine was replaced by the new blackberry) but the mobile one.
A better way to list friends:
I think that the new design hides a lot of crucial informations. I have to click on a friend to slide and see the information about someone. I liked better the old interface that was also smarter. For example if you don’t have any one related to you, the option mutual friend did not appear. Now it opens and says you don’t have any friends in commons. I think again that there’s room for improvements.
I know that new design is coming soon and we will see what will happens. Update, my message was spread internally at Facebook and they are already working on some of theses features, Cool !
And you what are your top 5 facebook improvements ?
The one thing that makes Facebook useless for me is that every app is trying to spam your contact list.
Facebook should have a generic app invitation form and a generic app invitation message. Mike sends you prosperity no more
Comment by GR — May 28, 2008 @ 8:53 am
Yes, search in messages seems essential if they wish people to really take hold of their internal mail as a serious tool. I immediately try and get smeone’s email if they’re messaging me because I know I will not be able to easily browse what they send me.
Comment by Dan Levy — May 29, 2008 @ 10:14 am
I think the Inbox remains what needs most of the improvements.. one of my idea (very obvious in fact) would be the possibility to do some folders to sort our messages depending on the topic, the interlocutor and whatever the need is (This is quite close and complementary to the Search tool within messages).
Comment by Franck Hadjez — June 2, 2008 @ 7:48 pm
Hi Tarik,
My team was brainstorming on a new facebook apPlication. You gave us 5 top applications.
we will focus on search
Thanks for sharing.
Comment by khalil — June 3, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
i think they should make a way so that you can add everyone to your mobile update list automatically bcuz i want all my friends on it and its taken me an hour and i only have like 50 friends on there out of 189 or something
Comment by derek — March 29, 2009 @ 4:55 am