So, I hid it. 

Here’s how (until they do their next interface change tomorrow or something…):

Click on the ‘”Gearwork” (I think?) symbol and there’s a “Hide Sidebar” option. 

Fair warning: some friends have expressed that this might be a little buggy as sometimes they see it when they log back in.  I’m assuming this has to do with mass roll out of this feature.

-cct

Facebook Shifting Borders?

The other day my friend Ian and I were having a facebook wall conversation and it wasn’t until he commented on my message on his wall that I realized you could comment on that as well (hey…there’s some things I don’t pay attention to ).

As my friend Bobby just did the same thing earlier (commenting on my wall post), I write this post being all kinds of  divided.  Is this the end of the wall-to-wall?  It makes sense because then the conversation follows on your profile where it began and you can see the exchange of things.  But then, I feel that you miss that element of two people on different profiles talking to each other.

Twitter-like?

Is this another Twitter-like integration by facebook as well?  Essentially adding in comments to people’s wall posts allows for other people to make their own comments if they knew the person.  I’ve done this on twitter every once in awhile, but though I’ll occasionally throw in a “I don’t know you, but that’s awesome!” comment in a string related to a facebook status, I haven’t really felt the need to do it in facebook.  Or perhaps it’s because I’ve never had the option?

Facebook with Twitterish Features

I’ve not been too big a fan of Facebook’s obvious changes to deflect the Twitter craze, but obviously (sans the Facebook Governance), they are a business and they need to figure out how to combat the competition.  But as individual tools, I see Facebook and Twitter as not different players in the same game (“Social Media”), but rather different dialects of the same language.  Some of its changes, it’s as if Facebook is trying to forcibly integrate another dialect into its own…and well – it’s awkward.  Twitter’s recent changes to interface are more about how to improve itself for its users and I think that’s how it really should be.

Commenting on wall posts, however, I think is just another facebook habit this user has to acquire.

• Gavin Newsom Uses Facebook, Twitter to Announce His Run for Governor [laist]
  A politician I like using social media for announcements?  Heck yeah!

• Dear Perez: Miss California Gave The Right Answer For The Moment [huffingtonpost]
  I stand by people having their own opinion, even if I don’t agree with it and hope that equality prevails over upbringing, but Perez (did I mention how I hate Perez Hilton?) was just not fair in his judgment and Mr. Charles Karel Bouley puts him in his place.

• Free Streaming Video for Earth Day: Sprawling From Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization
  From my buddy Nick who works at Cinema Libre.  Can’t beat free, right?
  

Screenshot - Facebook TOS Voting

Well…sort of efficient. When I tried voting the first couple of times I received all these error messages. In any case, if you haven’t heard voting has now begun for the new Terms of Service (TOS) on Facebook – revised version with an input of comments from users and experts or reverting back to the 9/08 version before the mass hysteria of libertarian-esque outcry (It’s the internet. We’re still the wild, wild west).

Go here to get to the vote.

Way more efficient than Mark Zuckerberg’s inefficient FB blog post.

The vote ends April 22nd 11:59 a.m. PDT on April 23.

Well…

When I finished creating an event.  The process of creating the event itself is quite annoying.  As I do work for an event-related website, I’m a big fan of “add event/create your event” buttons and links.  But wait this was supposed to be positive…

Okay.  So once you get through the process of adding an event, when you look at the guest list of attending, maybe attending, etc., it now appears in a light box.

Facebook - Event Guest List Light Box

If you’re an admin, you can easily click “Make Admin” button beside the person and authorize that they become an admin.  So simple and concise.

-cct