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andrewduckerFacebook has a rather trivial feature which nevertheless sees a lot of usage - user status.
The idea is that you finish off a sentence that starts "Andrew is..." and then other people can see what you typed. Looking through my friends, I see "at work", "older but no wiser", "eternally busy" and "waving his arms around like a mad bugger playing on his wii.". My own own currently reads "Andrew is the Way, the Truth and The Light." Which is all very fun and jolly - and it's frequently great fun to log in and see what people have been up to.
What Facebook have done in the recent redesign is make all of the status updates available on one page. Which is nice, but still not quite amazing. What's amazing is the link on the right hand side "subscribe to status updates", which is an RSS feed of the updates.
Which means you can then subscribe to them through LJ. And see what all your friends are up to, in teeny updates, from your friends page.
Now _that_ is a nice piece of functionality. It's just replicated exactly what Twitter does, only as a teeny part of the overall functionality, rather than needing a complete website just to do that one thing.
As you can probably tell, I rather like it.
The idea is that you finish off a sentence that starts "Andrew is..." and then other people can see what you typed. Looking through my friends, I see "at work", "older but no wiser", "eternally busy" and "waving his arms around like a mad bugger playing on his wii.". My own own currently reads "Andrew is the Way, the Truth and The Light." Which is all very fun and jolly - and it's frequently great fun to log in and see what people have been up to.
What Facebook have done in the recent redesign is make all of the status updates available on one page. Which is nice, but still not quite amazing. What's amazing is the link on the right hand side "subscribe to status updates", which is an RSS feed of the updates.
Which means you can then subscribe to them through LJ. And see what all your friends are up to, in teeny updates, from your friends page.
Now _that_ is a nice piece of functionality. It's just replicated exactly what Twitter does, only as a teeny part of the overall functionality, rather than needing a complete website just to do that one thing.
As you can probably tell, I rather like it.
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Date: 2007-04-13 06:13 pm (UTC)Do you mean functionality like that? I typed a sentence that started "Nick is..." and then all of these people can see what I typed!
OMG!??!11 t3h POWER OF T3H INTaRWEB!
Wait, you can see what your friends are up to, on your LJ friends page?
My LJ friends page already does that. I just refresh it and see a bunch of posts, which use words, icons and sometimes images to detail how my friends are doing. Admittedly using phrases like "I am..." rather than "[name] is..." Or I could look at my messenger window and see what people have got instead of/next to their name. You're just [online], which isn't too exciting. But plenty of people add sort of mood/status things there.
Am I missing something here?
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Date: 2007-04-13 06:23 pm (UTC)People will update their status without thinking about it. Largely because they don't treat it as if they were actually taking up any space/attention from others.
It feels much more trivial, and thus much more relaxed and "real" than a lot of LJ posts.
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Date: 2007-04-13 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-13 06:22 pm (UTC)(Still haven't heard from you.)