Apr 12, 2014
I guarantee we'll see these smart lists as a behavioral profile metric. Along the same time Google+ data will be incorporated into these reports to provide a behavioral profile. Thus the marriage of emotion and data begins.
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I guarantee we'll see these smart lists as a behavioral profile metric. Along the same time Google+ data will be incorporated into these reports to provide a behavioral profile. Thus the marriage of emotion and data begins.
Facebook not showing All updates of your Friends ? Here's how you can solve the problem
Wondering why you didn't see that image/status from your friend on your News Feed ? Here's the answer:
When the Facebook Smart Lists & Timeline were introduced, these changes affected the News Feed too. Facebook now comes with an option to view 3 types of updates from your friends:
All Updates
Most Updates
Only Important Updates
All Updates - This will be selected automatically if you have listed the friend in your "Close Friends" list. "All Updates" will show you every single update from your friend, including the third-party posts they like/comment, their game updates, etc. Clearly, this is nothing but a headache if your friend is too active on Facebook.
Most Updates - This is selected By Default for all your friends(Except ofcourse your Close Friends) and is the main Culprit why you miss some of the updates from your friends.
Only Important - This includes life-events, photos and popular statuses. Popular Status is a status from your friend which has got many likes and/or comments.
There are 2 ways to solve this problem:
Include the friend in your "Close Friends" List.
Alternative way is: a) Goto your friend's profile. b) Hover your mouse on "Friends" (near Message). This will generate a Drop-down menu under "Friends" c) Click on "Settings" from the Drop Down Menu d) Select the type of updates(All Updates/Most Updates/Only Important) you wish to see.
Friends Circles and Smart List: sharing rethought for the web.
Na een testfase van drie maanden stelde Google op 20 september haar sociale netwerksite open voor het grote publiek. Het bedrijf achter de gelijknamige zoekmachine ging eind juni openlijk de strijd aan met de immens populaire sociale netwerksite Facebook. Met ruim twintig miljoen nieuwe gebruikers in drie weken tijd maakte Google+ aanvankelijk geen slechte beurt.
Real-life sharing, rethought for the web
Uit de honderden reviews en reacties die volgenden na de lancering van de testversie blijkt dat de eerste gebruikers van de site zich vooral aangesproken voelden door de ‘friends circles’ of vrienden cirkels. Deze functie geeft gebruikers meer controle bij het delen van informatie via de website. Bovendien biedt de functie ook de mogelijkheid om filters te plaatsen op de informatie die binnenstroomt via het nieuwsoverzicht. Google+ lijkt zo een antwoord te bieden op de pijnlijke punten van kritiek waar andere sociale netwerksites hebben mee af te rekenen. Als slogan voor de site werd niet onterecht gekozen voor “real-life sharing, rethought for the web”.
Na Google+ ook een vernieuwde Facebook interface
De ontwikkelaars van Google+ mogen gerust beweren dat ze de manieren voor online delen hebben herbekeken, maar geheel vernieuwd zijn de vriendencirkels niet. Andere sociale netwerksites zoals Facebook, Twitter, Youtube en Flickr laten al geruime tijd toe om gecontroleerd informatie te delen met anderen via het internet. Ook het groeperen van vrienden in verschillende lijsten is weinig vernieuwend. Het innoverende van de vriendencirkels zit echter in de naadloze integratie van beiden in het gehele systeem, alsook in het gebruiksgemak ervan. Het is deze innovatie die erg werd gesmaakt door de eerste gebruikers van Google+. Dit is ook de ontwikkelaars van Facebook niet ontgaan. Net voor Google+ haar deuren openstelde, lanceerden Mark Zuckerberg en de zijnen een vernieuwde Facebook interface. Daarin zijn de tot voor kort weinig bekende en vaak ongebruikte vriendenlijsten prominent aanwezig. Tevens werden de ‘smart lists’ of slimme lijsten geïntroduceerd. Die suggereren een aantal mogelijke groepssamenstellingen op basis van voorkeuren en associaties aanwezig op het profiel van de gebruiker. Zo krijgen gebruikers indelingen te zien op basis van aangegeven familiebanden, gezamenlijke schoolverledens, gedeelde werkgevers en woonplaatsen.
Aandacht voor gebruikerscontrole
Het lijkt er op dat Google+ haar vernieuwend karakter reeds is verloren, hoewel de sociale netwerk site pas werd onthuld. Ondanks haar veelbelovende start zou ook deze poging slechts een matig succes kunnen zijn voor Google. Eerder waagde Google zich al op het domein van de sociale netwerk sites met initiatieven als Orkut en Google Buzz. Enkel de toekomst kan uitwijzen of Google+ een succes of een mislukking wordt. Wat die ook brengt, Google+ heeft haar slogan tot waarheid gemaakt met de hulp van Facebook. Voor de ontwikkelaars en de investeerders is het vast een magere troost, maar het lijkt er op dat de aandacht voor gebruikerscontrole heeft geleid tot belangrijke technologische veranderingen. Belangrijk, niet omdat ze wezenlijk zullen veranderen hoe informatie wordt gedeeld via sociale netwerksites, maar wel omdat ze ons iets kunnen vertellen over de activiteit zelf en haar betekenis voor gebruikers. In een binnenkort te verschijnen stuk leg ik u graag uit waarom delen als sociale media praktijk zo belangrijk is voor cultuur en cultuuroverdacht.
Bronnen: https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/+/learnmore/index.html#circles http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html http://www.facebook.com/f8 http://mashable.com/2011/09/13/facebook-revamps-friend-lists-pics http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150251867797131 http://mashable.com/2011/07/01/google-the-pros-cons
#2 Getting rid of friends – or let’s say gate-keeping the news feed
You most probably heard about the shift of media consumption, how newspapers are dying and more and more the customized news are coming up. Seriously, I wish there would be somebody in charge of my Facebook news feed – the internet is not intelligent enough – yet. When I met a friend from high school who visited Oahu this week, I realized that I should be a little ashamed of how badly focused my news feed is and that this has and is about to change soon.
Everybody’s talking about how the new media channels are changing our media consumption habits: The internet makes the people chose what they want to read. iGoogle let’s you create your own newspaper, nobody wants to have journalists as gatekeepers but to chose themselves what they read, the old fashioned news made from dead trees won’t exist anymore in less than ten years. This made me a little sad when I heard it first, but this is not what this article should be about. It is about old relationships from middle and high school and why on earth we do not have gate-keepers for Facebook. I graduated from high school in 2007 and of course I met a lot of people during these thirteen years – also people I probably would not even remember when we did not have Facebook. Until 2010, there were mostly college attendants on Facebook (in Germany). Since then, everyone I knew from school joined Facebook and a lot of people who probably would not even say “Hi” to me added me as a friend. I did not mind adding them as friends, maybe because I was interested what they were up to. Some of them even had kids while I was still working on my master’s degree. Over the months, I learnt a lot about people I haven’t seen or talked to for about ten years, saw their pictures, knew were they spent their holidays and could figure out how much they like the work they are going to every day. I exchanged messages with maybe five (of more than 100) of them. That’s okay, it is their choice how much they want to share on Facebook. But what about my other friends? The real ones?
Last week I met a friend from high school who was in Hawai’i for some days for holidays. In college we hang out together a lot since we had the same friends and at that time I knew what he was doing. He is on Facebook, but he rarely shares anything and his profile picture is more than a year old. I never cared much, but when we met, I realized that I know almost nothing about what he did with his life during the past years. I heard that he is about to go to college starting this fall, but that’s it. He told me about his every-day-life, his new girl friend and his holidays in personal. It was good to hear it from him and not from the news feed. It is also much more connecting not to be able to tell him that “I have seen this on Facebook already”.
Now I am wondering:
#1 Why should I waste my time reading stuff from people I most probably will never talk to again? #2 Is it good to share a lot on Facebook so I have less to share (personally) with those friends I really care about?
I am not sure about #2 yet, since I have always been trying not share too much of my private life (even though I can’t resist uploading beautiful pictures of my holidays). About #1, I will definitely try to get rid of all those people I somehow met but don’t really need to be 100% up to date. Just one week ago, I could have done this through removing them from my news feed.
Ironically, since yesterday, Facebook introduced smart lists. It helps you organizing the connections on Facebook after school, work or location and you can put them into three categories: “Close friends”, “Acquaintances” and “Restricted”. Close friends will appear more often in the news feed while restricted friends will see less of your profile than the other random people you met and put in the “acquaintances” category. In addition to that, you can display your best friends separately. Now, I just have to do the effort to organize the approximately 500 “friends” into groups.
Facebook Begins Rolling Out Smart Lists To Provide A More Google+ Experience [News]
Select users may notice a change on Facebook.
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Facebook Begins Rolling Out Smart Lists To Provide A More Google+ Experience [News]
Select users may notice a change on Facebook, because they has begun rolling out a new feature called Smart Lists. Smart Lists are like Google+ in that it sorts your friends in a way that makes it easy to navigate, keep track of and share with them, but the key difference is that Facebook Smart Lists do all of this automatically, so you do not have to take the time to go back and reorganize your entire friends list.
The new feature will group friends into three categories: coworkers, classmates, and all people who live within 50 miles of you. Obviously, with it being narrowed in this way you don’t get the same level of customization as Google+, but you also don’t have to put any effort in to make this work.
Once Facebook groups your friends, you will be able to share and message only people from certain groups. I think this is especially cool with the geographic limiting. Now if you are having something go on that only is relevant to people who live near, you won’t clutter up the news feeds of people who live at the other end of the country.
Right now, only select users have the feature, but we expect it to roll out to more Facebook members as time goes on.
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You’ve got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you’ve worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows all of this — it just doesn’t really go out of its way to show that it knows all of this. Until now.
Sometime recently, Facebook began rolling out “Smart Lists” to select users — which, as the name implies, intelligently groups certain obvious groups of friends into pre-packaged lists. Take that, Google Plus!
So far, it looks like Facebook is automatically grouping friends into three different bunches:
People you work with
People you attended school with
People who live within 50 miles of you
If nothing else, that last one should be pretty handy for finding a few bar buddies on the quick without bugging your whole friends list (or, if we’re going for more practical stuff here, blasting out the cliche “Oh my God! Earthquake! Did anyone else feel that!” updates without sending it out to people who are on the other side of the world and obviously didn’t feel that.)
Following the launch of Google Plus and its absurdly easy-to-use grouping system, Facebook has taken a good amount of flack for their rather archaic list creation tools. Might this be the first of many improvements? The three pre-generated lists are nice, but when will I be able to be able to make myown smart lists, a la iTunes Smart Playlists? Yeah yeah, school friends, cool — when will I be able to auto-generate a list of all my friends who happen to share my love for John Leguizamo flicks? Screening partyyyyy!