Design decisions across our projects can mean the difference between affirmation and invalidation—and sometimes safety and danger. But thanks for your provocative essay. Just ask my aunt. … I’m not very good at that, and as an extrovert I definitely over-share; I over-share in person just as much as anywhere else. I like your thoughts on Pinterest and Instagram. But it’s a plastic self. And instead of following people (which you can), you can follow the specific areas of interests (boards) that you share mutually. Recently I attended my first actual social function since the Late Troubles began. Facebook's loose handling of how its data was acquired by app developers has plunged the company into the biggest crisis of its 14-year existence. @Jennifer — Obnoxious is just a relative term, though, right? I tend to aspire to Mark Zuckerberg’s philosophy of having one authentic persona. Facebook could do a lot of work to make the whole ideas of contexts a) much more accessible, b) much more liquid, and c) much more trusted. I never tried it myself, but the idea — as I understood it — was that people would enter a virtual world, assume fantasy avatars, and do stuff. I get all this, and agree mostly. I now can name the dragon …switch-codificationablity. On the contrary, code switching is about your ability to modify your behavior to best suit any interaction. At least that’s what I try to do. As a result, older versions of the app can cease to function. The most obvious groups people tend to make, in our experience, are groups that differentiate between family and acquaintance. The only thing Facebook or any social network impedes is your ability to nurture the delusion you are fooling people, not communication or social interaction itself. In this case, there should be a problem with your cookies. Bookmarked. Not because I’m a coward (though I am). Northwestern’s Online MS in Information Design and Strategy. We’re all predictably irrational. Very important. I clicked “close my account” on november, they scheduled its deletion by the end of Jannuary. He can surround himself with like-minded friends. The early premise for Facebook was a great idea—a great design, speaking of design in the broadest sense. There were lots of things to talk about that didn’t divide us. I think that there is a shared experience of living and seeing our lives on the timeline (warts and all) that is greater than “siloing” our lives into set verticals. Contexts expand and contract in their acceptance of our postings based on intimacy of relationships. I loved this column post for the conversation it spurs. All in all, this is a very stimulating article. Until, the next trend appears and our sense of ego sees another opportunity to find wholeness and grasps at another facade. My Facebook persona is more realistic than a Second Life avatar, but it’s still a construct. While somehow curving the effect of self validating our narrower opinions (facebook feels like a nice place for a soapbox).. Companies like Craigslist are a rare and endangered species and so much emphasis is placed on start-ups that take in VC money making it impossible to make the type of systemic change the author believes must happen to anything with a “great design” lest it become a “silent killer.” The future for a software world that caters to the complexity of human nature itself (and hopefully for its betterment) won’t come from a VC funded start-up. @Matthew — It’s really refreshing (and sort of inspiring) to hear that. I think on Facebook we miss that implicit threat of a punch in the nose that makes bullies appreciate the uses of civility. I think you raise a very good tension. Brief books for people who design, write, and code. people alone, while Facebook has grassroots censorship, silencing avg. The nature of user behavior is also a major cause for this. And as time goes by, this struggle seems to not only be eroding our relationships with our friends, but also with the medium. If you are facing this problem, then do take reference of Facebook help section. that factor in, too. I guess for good or ill, we all have a “public” presence now, and like politicians and other famous people, people will form opinions about us based on that. But once the money was dangling in front of them, they put profit before user experience and ignored protests against the change. 1- If I was that interested in reconnecting with acquaintances of the past, I would have already done it by myself over the years, without illuminated Mark showing me how. By Gracy Olmstead. I enjoyed reading it. On Facebook we miss that implicit threat of a punch in the nose that makes bullies appreciate the uses of civility. Context switching is only important to the switcher as a mechanism of identity self-preservation through delusion. Or that news story — sometimes even from the mainstream media — that refutes an accusation leftists have been provoking me with for months. In boyd’s words, “By understanding the context of the environment, people know which aspects of their social identity to perform.”. @amys_bus_ticket #PaperBallots (@amys_bus_ticket) reported 12 hours ago @Facebook FB App is failing to post to group pages! We agree on few things, but on the topic of Facebook, we seem unanimous: we hate it. Facebook Error Messages Aside from the standard HTTP status code errors like 500 Internal Server Error, 403 Forbidden, and 404 Not Found, Facebook sometimes displays error messages that explain why you can't connect. Lesser intimacy means more moderated posting. The alternative to broadcasting your unfiltered multifaceted self is presenting a more dilute version, one that’s tempered or, dare I say, code switched, to appease all of your Facebook friends. Or hate it. Facebook’s meteoric rise in popularity suggests that it offers us something we’ve always wanted. I’ve heard it before, and I’ve read some about it. In recent days I have been working to realign old elementary school classmates, a task that would have been impossible a decade ago. I’ve found too many old friends on it. And replace it we must: Everything reaches its past-due date.”. 524K likes. There should one more action button for “DISLIKE” !!! Common issues with Facebook include bugs after the sign in, which include a complete white page due to server problems. There are other implicit “features” like your ability to anonymize yourself to some degree, the nature of how your signals are broadcast to others, the frequency of cross-broadcasts, etc. I’m into dogs, especially Weimaraners. One of the biggest challenges facing Facebook is the recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. But this very promotion of self is what leads to the lack of wholeness that you sought in the first place. A Book Apart: Brief books for people who make websites. Desperately. Maybe I’ll write a followup… In the meantime, thanks for the feedback/question. When your headline has both the name of a trendy tech platform and the phrase “real real problem” complete with look-at-me-I’m-clever capitalisation, it’s merely heralding that future age of navel gazing. I can't send messages to friends on Facebook. It’s really hard to come up with solutions for this problem. Anyone who refuses to capitalise their name showcases a level of social and intellectual maturity that makes them more fit to make tie dye shirts than academic papers. We have niche social groups (online + offline) where this can take place and are valued.. The fact that FB is a public company, currently worth billions, probably lies at the root of it. And it’s this subtle falsity, I think, that makes Facebook so corrosive. Every once in a while somebody will post from the gut, their true authentic selves shining through and those posts are precious. If there was a way to carry one’s self into each service super easily (similar to “log in with facebook”), that could allow for easier code switching by forum environment? Posting content that doesn't follow the Facebook Terms. but, i wonder….wondering…what if being challenged to reveal all facets, just whip out your facets when you feel like it, regardless of who is listening/watching or if it is the “right” audience, might be a good thing for personal/human growth and evolution? In this excerpt from World Wide Waste, Gerry McGovern examines the environmental impact of bloated websites and unnecessary assets. And I’ve talked to dozens. Author Ksenia Cheinman shows how the right conversational framework can help you navigate these all-too-frequent design interactions. A friend’s like on an anti-gay-rights page. They’ve sort of started down this road with their separate apps for maintaining Pages and Messaging. Tyler Carter, AJ Rebollo, Sky Accord, Josh Manuel This leaves us feeling stuck in a seemingly endless struggle between being our true or dilute selves. You mention there are only two options to a public presence: Option 1: faceted – showing different faces to different people, or There’s plenty more bad stuff to be said about social media and why it whittles down human interaction to feedback loop of noise and lowest common denominators without having to scrape _outside_ of the dialectic barrel by throwing bits of theories whose intellectual foundations are at the muddy level of the conversation during a bong workshop in a California dormitory. But great design can often be the silent killer, as Bill Buxton writes: “Great design takes hold, gets traction, and takes on its own inertia—which makes it hard to replace. I've weirdly had less #censorship problems on @Twitter than @Facebook. ISSUES. And replacing it is going to take much more than flat UI, faster notifications, better animations, responsiveness, bigger and higher density screens, better web standards, native apps, and thousands of other things that we’ve already written about. 10 December: Problems at Facebook 8 December: Problems at Facebook 1 December: Problems at Facebook Check past issues Stay up to date Be the first to know the next time Facebook goes down. Deeper intimacy equates with wider sharing and greater overlap of contextual groups i.e. That said, I have a few observations about what does seems to work. I’d like to see Kim Dotcom attack this issue while he’s creating other private, yet centralized services. Authenticity is also a double edged sword… even if you consign yourself to a life of raw authenticity, such as that of blogger Perez Hilton, you alienate a part of your audience that helps to keep you honest. However, I still get a sense of “sour grapes” from those who just can’t stand the fact that Facebook became as successful as it did. Contacting other people for the purpose of harassment, advertising, promoting, or other conduct that's not allowed. It ripples through the many sides of my identity. If we missed something, we found out about it soon enough. I think there’s probably a cyclical element to all of this. I don’t know. The real problem with Facebook is a lot bigger than Facebook. You can also be authentic to the deeper you, the one from whom the facets emerge. I get that, too, though. There, we agree. You might be liberal, conservative, secularist or born-again. So, in the spirit of the new year’s resolution many of us likely made—spend less time on Facebook—it may be time to go beyond the symptoms to understand a deeper issue behind much of our Facebook angst. Amy Bucher shares insights into using personalization to create meaningful user experiences. Professional sports have grown partisan and boring. I’m sure facebook wants to be better, but how can it? The “problem” with facebook is of a “social” nature, and thus inherits characteristics of a social structure, very subjective (different for different people), and sometimes biased. I suspect that intimacy is something that you can’t really design for, but it becomes a result of a design that enables trust and liquidity (as you called it). For one, context comes first in real life, and I think that sticking a contextual lens in front of all social network interaction is pretty necessary. In my opinion Facebook was a fantastic idea, but could be used in a better way, would be more usable. I just happen to have just read E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2577573-e-unibus-pluram) and have been thinking about how remarkably relevant it still is in the YouTube/Facebook era. 4- I don’t care to see the pictures of your puppies, neither I care about reading your “kickass” words of wisdom that you embedded, most of all I dont care to see how you have become after so many years simply because you are NOT my friend and I dont care about you (im talking metaphorically here). Are you laughing yet? But don’t tell anybody because I don’t want anybody on Facebook to know that honesty is part of my authentic self. @David — Thanks for the thoughtful response. It’s a known cognitive bias, covered very well here http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/the-illusion-of-asymmetric-insight/ (bear with it a bit, the piece does a long detour via something seemingly unrelated at first). Lists, even when they’re shaped like Circles (a valiant effort, it’s worth saying), barely solve the real problem. People can adapt to context changes in seconds – we’re very flexible. Why join the “cat lovers” page on FB when you could join “the social network of cat lovers” and authenticate yourself with OpenID? This is about using messages on Facebook on a computer. Fantastic article that so eloquently puts what we are all thinking. I’d love to more on it. @Clydicus — I’m with Zuck on that, but I think the world will implode when that happens. I “present” on Facebook, more or less, as myself. I don’t have enough usage yet to have an opinion. Hunter Biden Cashed In to Fuel His Drug and Sex Habits, Targeting People With Mental Illness and Dementia for Euthanasia. But you’re probably right about the tension between Facebook’s main goal now (shareholder value) and what I’m seeking. This need is ego driven as our sense of self, identity, or individuality is the belief that you are not part of the whole already, but separate, and alone. @Byron — I couldn’t be happier that Facebook went public. On Facebook you can kiss such nuanced interaction goodbye. (Sure, we all sang the “Star-Spangled Banner,” but nobody imagined that was political.). Erin White explores the repercussions for trans, non-binary, and gender-variant users and what we can do about it. Sometimes broadcast is great – social networks have made tasks like personal brand building and professional networking more accessible and responsive and that has some benefit. I made a determination recently. But no party politics. In the real world, we would depend on code switching to interact with these individuals. You’re absolutely right about liquid context changes, and the lack thereof in the social media equivalents we use today. The idealized me on Facebook has the power to make his world pretty much whatever he wants. We were careful; we wore masks as we dished up our catered food and set our lawn chairs a distance from one another. Facebook has so many problems, it really has none Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chairman and chief executive, testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. And so, the appeal is lost, and turns into another ego fueled party of self gratification. I think we are all obnoxious to each other in different ways (one man’s meat is another man’s poison). I think Reddit is a lot like Instagram. So I see this third option: being authentic to your values and your principles and your gut and your heart. We need to look each other in the face when we condemn one another to the stake or the guillotine, even metaphorically. Likewise, I read hash tags more than my news feed. But I did kick off this column with this: It Is What It Is. Have You Told Van Morrison Lately That You Love Him. Intimacy is closely related to trust. It’s a sign that a change is overdue. Actually, I’m a little proud of that stat… but not for the reasons you might assume. Your Facebook profile is meant to represent the “real-life you” as much as possible. My multifaceted self is what makes me feel like I’m two or three, hell, several different people. I think my Facebook Page was hacked or taken over by someone else. It is, however, several years old (hey, I haven’t changed that much). I just hope when we find it, it won’t be on the streets, behind barricades. Context is not just about interest areas, or demographics, or even culture. In my book, this is exactly the reason to break a few rules. Old connections he judges unworthy can be blocked or unfriended. Received 47 reports, originating from . . The perception of what context we are in takes almost no effort in real life – I don’t have to “decode” if I am at work or at a bar, talking to a friend or a stranger – my intent has already brought me to the context, and I don’t have to think too hard about. Not only were the ads becoming incessant, I was becoming irritated by the uniformity of everyone’s posts. The fakebooking got to be too much because I knew these people would never actually say the things they’re posting. Code switching, to a reasonably aware person, is almost automatic. Exactly my point, Nishant. The degree to which we think we successfully present different persona in different contexts is largely overestimated by everyone. Social networks needn’t necessarily mimic the real world contexts. Maybe some of us rub others the wrong way more than the average. I keep my Acquaintances feed separate from main feed, so that I can willingly view them anytime later. When do you retract, when do you hold your ground, and when do you delete? Sites like Instagram & Pinterest gained traction because they are less focused on the individual and more about the flow of the whole. Good design – which Facebook had about 6 years ago – doesn’t need constant revamping and updating for the sake of it. September 5, 2020, 12:04 AM . I wonder if soon the cultural pendulum might swing back the other way, towards more privacy and less broadcasting. Alternatively, if the issue has nothing to do with the internet … We have turned off comments, but you can see what folks had to say before we did so. When you face problems at the time of logging in to your Facebook account, just make a call to your friend and ask him to check whether the problem persists on his side or not. Facebook comments Tips? What’s your take? Take Instagram, for example. @Facebook I've problem with confirming my identity on facebook and I've tried everything I read and watched online but nothing worked. Maybe I’m just getting older (not sure if it’s wiser). To do as little “code-switching”, and keep as few secrets as possible. I think Twitter goes after high profile people while leaving avg. Television watching is fragmented, and movies are viewed on demand. You don’t send friend requests on Instagram. @Richard — Maybe the next one could be targeted more directly at personal communication and small groups. I share in many of these complaints. The people you interact with see you as a cohesive whole no matter what. Like most people, I’m open to new opportunities in related, but disparate fields, and yet I sort of have to have a single “resume” that encompasses all of them. If you consult your BCG Matrix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth-share_matrix) you will see that most products have a life-cycle and Zuck’s should probably just pump as much cash as possible while he can. /*
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