Facebook - Do we like or become a fan?
Facebook have unveiled their newest alteration to the social networking site, abolishing the 'Become a Fan' feature in favour for 'Like.' For those that have Facebook, this proves troublesome as there are now two different 'Like' options - One to 'Like' a Page, and one to "Like" an activity of a user.
Typical to Facebook, there was of course uproar to the change (just like every single change Facebook has ever done) What is interesting is that despite the uproar, Facebook doesn't look like it's slowing down in popularity.
When Myspace unveiled it's new layout back in 2007, a lot of their users abandoned the social networking site because they were unhappy with the changes and did not want to learn all the new features. However, for some reason Facebook seem to manage to get by all their modifications without much damage at all.
If one actually analyses the changes Facebook have implemented this time around, you can see the genius in their features as they move closer to trying to 'rule' the internet. Some of the new features involve making the profile information more interactive, changing the pages into a more Wiki-style website as well as opening up static text to become links for users to continue to navigate through.
I wanted to know what your opinions of the new changes are? Do you like them? Did you even notice them?
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When I first noticed the change from 'became a fan' to 'like' in facebook I was thinking the change was stupid and that was a few days ago. Now I've had the time to think about the change it's pretty ok for me. For me being a fan of something is quite strong impression. Where as liking is something what more probably is what people are actually thinking about the matter, what ever it is. Only bad thing i find from the change is that now you can't like or comment if somebody's likeing something.
Hi Gabs!
Yes i noticed the changes but I don't really care. I agree with Anssi - likeing something is easier than be a fan.
In my opinion there have been a lot of worse changes befor - just think of the new layout half year ago ;)
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