Everyone's talking about the new update to Facebook

There have been a number of online news articles about the updates on the Facebook changes. One in particular has been by The Daily Mail “Facebook blog is inundated with thousands of protests as users start Facebookgroup 'We Hate the New News Feed’”. Most of these complaints are about the new News Feed section.

The first thing that happens when Facebook updates their website is the Facebook status updates are all the same, everyone is ranting about how bad it is and the second thing that happens is the dislike groups to get Facebook to change it back. These seems to be the same process every time they change something major on the site. The last time I remember they changed it everyone hated it and eventually we all did get used to it and start to love it. So what’s the point of all this ranting when we will just get used to it again. I must admit it did annoy me a bit but because it changed my privacy settings and I had to go back in and figure out how to make it the same as last time. Sometimes change is good, it helps us grow, learn new things and in technology become aware of what the internet is capable of.

The online news story is well written and included images such as a wireframe of Facebook new music playing feature and then a screenshot of what the current Facebook looks like with the Newsfeed. It also have some images just so you know who Mark Zuckerburg is I don’t know if this is needed as there is already a lot going on The Daily Mail website. There are a few other pictures of some other updates and a screenshot of Google + now the competition for Facebook. The Daily Mail website later down the page gets a bit distracting. In the second image that i have included you can see how over crowded the section is, I think that could work on that section to make it less distracting. There is a comment section at the bottom and the latest person who commented seems to think the same thing I though Leanne from Dorset says “I’m not gonna lie but everyone always moans when Facebook updates everyone moans for a bit then after a couple of weeks they get used to it...then when it up dates again its the same old story...”. So it makes me think next tiome facebook updates something are there going to be lots of news articles about the users complaining they don’t like it. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Screen Schot of the Daily mail website

Screen Schot of the Daily mail website

Online News Article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2039726/Facebook-changes-Thousands-protests-We-hate-new-news-feed-group.html

Other online news articles related:

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2011/09/22/facebooks-changesits-all-about-the-platform/
• http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/technology/dislike-new-facebook-changes-cause-outrage-among-users/story-e6frep1o-1226143260998
• http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/facebooks-new-profiles-first-impressions/

Steve Jobs view on "What He Loves"

The latest Apple announcement was sad Steve Jobs quits. We were all hoping the next Apple announcement would be news about the iPhone 5 not that the mastermind behind apple is retiring. The Wall Street Journal published an article “Find What You Love,” Steve Jobs’ at Stanford University a talk that he gave to students at Stanford inspiring them not to settle “You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach as never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.” The heading is inspiring “Find what you Love” as Steve Jobs is admired its great insight to read about how he found what he loved and know that you can love what you do. It was a perfect heading for the article as it represents everything it is about.


The article is inspiring as it makes the reader think about the bigger picture, if they are not happy with what they are doing then do something about it. Rework your life to make it how you want it. Life is to short to just go along with things and hope it works out. I believe if you want to live a full life you need to make it your own and style it to the way you want it. Jobs has summed it up about life “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life”. He is also realistic about life and knows you should live it to the fullest while you can “Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true”.

The layout of The Wall Street Journal Article is simple. It has the heading up the top then a tab underneath the heading with Article and next to that Comments. At the time of viewing there are 68 comments with some inspiring comments such as from the reader Bill Dueease “Jobs is living proof that when you do what you love and love what you do everything works out….”. This is a great example showing how the readers are emotionally involved with the article. The article works well online as it is on the appropriate site, it would have been nice if there was a video of Jobs giving the talk to accompany the article. Overall I believe it to be a great online news article well worth the read.

Online news articles:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576520690515394766.html?fb_ref=wsj_share_FB_bot&fb_source=home_oneline