Facebook Revamps the News Feed Section: A Deliberate Rollout or Another Bug?

Man, you’ve been so lucky to get featured on Mashable! Thanks for my pic

I apparently am one of the unlucky trial subjects. the “happening now” section is nothing more than repeat of middle section news feed. The area where my photo of online friends is apparently too low on the left section to show, and since i cannot scroll down the left section, i cannot tell which friends are online. I hate this format!

I think the new feature is horrendous, it’s telling me things I either already know or don’t care about, and furthermore it has replaced the events and birthdays corner (in other words, the features I care about most are no longer visible on the homepage)

Left bar is not required to scroll, it will expand automatically based upon information. B’day got moved to your profile page

Is there any way to get rid of this I have tried everything I like you think it is horrendous and i want my events and birthdays corner back as well, don’t think it is fair to make a person a test with out their permission I am irate this is driving me crazy!!!!!!!

Dear ifwasik45,
I am afraid to inform you that this feature cant be roll backed by users. Facebook is testing the new interface and “may” plugg few important section – like you requested” back to Home page. However, pls keep in mind this is under trial mode and not the final UI version.

Dear Fred,
we are afraid to inform you that these features are part of Facebook’s new roll-out of UI. Any user cant adjust/change their own UI setting of Facebook account. Probably, its time for facebook to look for Web 2.0 option here every user can design their own home page using the combination and drag-and-drop feature of various sections.

am one of the chosen to be tested and you’r right it’s still in our profile page and it’s really annoying that i have to go to my profile page just to see any events and birth days reminders!! pls… Fb don’t run this feature bring back Fb as the old times much applicable and user friendly!! 

I have it and I want to get rid of it. NOW. It’s awful. 

This is awful, is there anyway I can get rid if it?

Found a way around it alright. Deactivated my original account and just created a new one, the new page does not have it!!! Presto problem solved. And yes I told this directly to facebook when I deactivated so don’t want to hear about their policy for this.

That doesn’t seem to be a solution for many. t’s not possible to deactivate your account if you have hundreds of friends and well connect network. As, we have mentioned earlier, based on users comment Fb may roll bac few sections. But for that all users need to react in numbers to showcase strong opposition.

 i’m also one of them and i hate it too..so can you back my old news feed?

Dazeinfo,

I’ve
been part of the test group for the new UI.  I won’t go into everything
wrong with it.  You’ve an idea based on the comments posted here.  In
one response you state: “But for that all users need to
react in numbers to showcase strong opposition.”

I’d
like to point you to one of the, I’m sure quite a few, Facebook groups started
because of the frustration of this rollout/test.  If you’re looking for
feedback, please start here.

Thanks
for your article, your feedback, and for sharing the users’ thoughts with
Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_219417451413093

I think it is an awful feature.  If you play games such as Farmville it is awful I hav not been able to get any special gifts over the last three weeks as by the time I have found the feed they have gone!  I don’t care who is talking to whom, only about my friends and what they are doing.  Luckily mine has gone back to normal and I DO NOT WANT IT CHANGING AGAIN 

Please change it back… I can’t stand it… it doesn’t fit in with my social activities on Facebook.. & I think we should be given the right to choose.

Let alone the privacy of ‘no privacy’ for anyone.. we see every damn comment all our friends make to friends that aren’t even ours… 

Oh, yeah… where are my events that are coming up… gosh.. not a happy chappy.. 

I am also one of the unlucky that got this. Right side panel is totally pointless, who cares if a friend likes something someone you don’t know wrote or posted?
I have a lot of friends, business contacts and game friends since many of the games you provide on FB requires a big crowd to advance. This does not mean that I’m interested in their everyday life. I want to be able to follow and interact with a specific group of people, people I consider my real friends. Before I could do this by clicking most resent and then filter the news by friend lists, This is gone now and my biggest complaint. If you log on to FB after, say, eight hours the most reseent option was excellent, I could just scroll down to my last logon time and see what had happened since then. Now there is no way I can follow up on anything.

It’s funny, since I have been defending FB to Google+ and said that you could create circles in FB as well, but they where called friend lists. Now that option is gone. Maybe it’s time for me to leave as well?

Please get me of this nightmare of a test!

this is how myspace went down.  too many unnecessary changes.  this “new feature” of FB’s is the worst yet.

Oh no you didn’t say we were the “lucky” chosen ones!

Lucky would be finding out all my bills will be paid for life by a philanthropic kind soul that wishes to remain anonymous. 

Lucky would be hitting Lotto AND Powerball on the same weekend that I’m on vacation.. 

Lucky would be finding a real pot of gold under a rainbow and no nasty Leprechaun to trick, battle or slay.

Waking up to the abomination that is now my FB page, I’m left to wonder “who did i royally piss off?”

After reading this article and the “let’s put a good spin on this” comments by whoever you are that thinks this is a good thing, might i cordially invite you to:  Stuff A Sock In It! 

Geez Louise…if I had this many people complaining about a product I was dishing out I’d do all i could to rectify the situation before I found myself being dragged outta my own Palatial Estate, tarred, feathered and beaten with foam F’s. 

The new version SUCKS and I’ve yet to hear anyone outside of yourself Mr. or Ms DazeInfo person say anything good about it.  How’s THAT for a Focus Group Response?

Dear Lisa,

First of all I would like to address your confusion. We are not sure why many of the people (including ones who have posted their grievance about the new UI of Facebook’s News feed) think that we as Dazeinfo are responsible for this new feature roll out ? Do you think we have any “say” to Mark or “Facebook” ? No. It was just a situation that we were the first who exposed the new UI and made people aware about this.

You, like many others, have been chosen by Facebook team for the new roll out. And trust, whether you like or not, Dazeinfo is not responsible for such initiative. However, I am sure that if there is a large community against such new roll out, Facebook would like to give second thought about this.

From our side, we are doing our level best to make your voice reach to Facebook UX team and now its upto them to make any final decision.

On our personal experience and take, we found this new feature quite helpful and that’s our own prospective.

Hope you understand !!

Dazeinfo,

I think we’re all ‘confused’ because each of your responses to negative comments seem to try to convince us that we should accept and love this new feature.  
Thank you for your attempt to reach the Facebook UX team.  We do hope they take each and every user’s experience and use it to make their final decision. 

I’m glad you like it.

I don’t (like it that is) and its apparent that many MANY others don’t as well. 

My apologies since you (DazeInfo) aren’t, as you say, responsible for the latest FB initiative. Though you are obviously responsible for giving those of us that are not happy with and very much against said initiative, a forum from which to vent.  Well another forum, we do have our FB group “Happening Now” Haters.  At the end of the day you are not responsible for the actions of FB.

You will of course understand if some of the ire we feel falls your way and stains your shoes and your doorstep.  Your endorsement of the rollout and your seeming defense of FB on admittedly your own website is quite frustrating to some of us.  Especially when coupled with FB’s wholehearted behavior to dare i say willfully ignore those of us that do not like nor want these changes forced on us without the benefit of asking first.  We’ve emailed, we’ve posted, we grow more and more frustrated and yes angry.

So please excuse me if i came across as blaming YOU for the latest failings of FB.  At first glance i did wonder how much FB was paying this website to give them the thumbs up.  But really does that even matter?  Up until this point I was quite happy with FB and spoke well of it, even to those that despised it for being what it is.  And i never received a dime nor expected to.

This is more than disliking change though.  This is being made to take our medicine, because FB knows best.  How about a little collaboration?  If we so-called lucky ones are indeed a Test Group, far better had FB communicated that idea prior to the mass hijacking of our pages.  Perhaps then we could have given them feedback on what works and what doesn’t work with this latest change.  We could have done so without anger, attitude or hysterics…maybe even happily and gladly assisted them in their efforts to bring us the best product to-date.

I will close with this;  if you can in any way bring our voices to the FB decision makers let them know they did not become the giant of social networking alone…the very term “social networking” can be defined as a group effort and endeavor, something done to socially bring us/everyone into network TOGETHER..  Listening to the people they serve and continuing to build loyalty from that foundation can create a system that can have far reaching impact on the entire world in a way not yet experienced. 

LP

Actually the “TEST DUMMY” tag I have received I do not appreciate! It seems that you are the lone person (Are you part of this test?) who appears to like the NEW Facebook.
I have heard the TEST is 1,000 also 2,000. At 1,000 from the forums I’ve participated  in it appears to be 99+% DIS-satisfaction! At this point it appears that Facebook (although at this point I much prefer to call FAKEBOOK) has overstepped ALL boundaries of privacy and informed consent. As to an explanation I read this morning of their methods for roll outs and testing this just becomes a “Key stroke” test method.. So therefore it is just passed along the “TEST DUMMY” path until the get the results they want without actually having any knowledge verbal of how the people they are testing feel or react to their tests.
To me this is just malicious attempt to gather personal information to pass on to Facebook advertisers about our interests, our personal status, living arrangements, ad on to infinity.
 Shutter Buggy summed it up very well.
It is (in my opinion) a study in human frustration!  And for whose gain?

I am one of the lab rats that has the misfortune to be “testing” this
new format. Today by noon the most recent news feed I had was 15 hours
old. Now I know that a least one person from my friends list has said
something a little more recent that. This is a failure! Yet FB continues
to push this on us. Sending them feed back only gets you a form auto
email response. The voice of the people mean very little to the FB
clowns. They will push this on us regardless what we want.

On the up side I have started reading more books, at least I know they
won’t change mid chapter to some weird format or different language 

Plus the photo that FB is providing is totally incorrect. There are not
thumbnail pictures on the left of your friend online and at the top
there is no Top News/Recent button. FB is attempting to pretty sell a
failed product.

HI guys , 

i would really appreciate if somebody could let me know how to revert to old new feed settings ….i am so irritated with this so called ” happening now ” panel and new news feed change ….even i am not able to locate people who are online s after this upgrade nothing shows up in left panel where you used to get friends pic who used to be online ..

Please help to get rid of this new setting 

This new scrolling feed section is completely redundant!  It’s an exact
duplicate of what is already going on in the live feed (except now the
main feed has stopped live scrolling & I have to constantly refresh
to see what is going on)… and really, maybe I don’t want my friends to
know what games I am playing or when/how often I am playing them or
what I am liking… GIVE ME SOME PRIVACY OPTIONS!!!!  If FB is going to
make me a test dummy, at least let me somehow respond somewhere with my
feedback of what I think about it or what problems I’m encountering,
isn’t that what being a “test user” is all about?  Either allow me a way
to give feedback or take me off the TEST list!  OMG I am so hating
Facebook right now!  Oh & the chat sucks too, 22 people are
available to chat but you are only going to show me 6 of the ones online
& 10 of those who are not (just because I recently interacted with
them) so now I have to “search” for the rest of the available by going
one by one through the 320 friends I have???? GARBAGE!!!  Ask “Myspace
Tom” what happens when something better comes along… Google+ you are
looking mighty tempting right about now, FB you are #losing

In regards to this new Testing Facebook, can you tell me please, if there will be an option… like with the original Facebook newsfeed, to filter posts like we could before.  That is the biggest thing I really miss and really disappointed that it has gone.  I’m sure you know what I’m referring to.. with the option to choose from ‘Most Recent’ , Game such as Yoville posts, ‘Family’, etc etc… because at this stage, I have to scroll right through the whole day to see statuses or posts that I am interested in.  Whereas with the original format… I could easily filter out what I wanted to see briefly to catch up.

This new way, is very time consuming.. and I do miss so many posts, statuses from my family & friends… in fact, sometimes I wonder if they think I am being rude, or otherwise because I haven’t commented… or replied, which is because I never saw their post.

HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!