FaceBook wants to know ‘what’s on your mind?’

In FB land things need to change. Already they have had several major and public stuff ups – not that stuff ups are bad as they provide invaluable learning experience.

It’s just that my Blink feeling is that these actions are becoming more and more desperate. At worst, I think these could be the death knell for FB (probably just a slide into irrelevance) or what may be smarter is the exit of Mr Zuckerberg who is so far out of his league that the public business image of FB is now emabarrasing for all invloved.

I gave up FB a year ago, but got suckered back in as more people discovered it and friend count climbed. Then I suffered from ‘friend overload’ – just too much garbage information; I do not care that you’re picking your nose, or having a coffee.

I then started doing a very unFB thing and culled friends. Very carthatic and streamlined my information flow. However, as the reverse isn’t happening (ie my friends aren’t culling their friends) they are still getting far too much info for the average human and therefore reply to posts aren’t happening for me. There is little or no dialogue being created and so no community being built. I know no more about my friends than before FB existed. Now this is obviously a user centric experience but I believe that my friends aren’t the only ones who are in info overload.

Will the new features to FB save it? I think the ‘gunius’ (aka thief) kid Z’berg needs to go and be replaced by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Facebook Plans Changes to Friend Updates – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.