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GoldenRod
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Facebook to launch profile redesign
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/20/tech/social-media/facebook-major-profile-redesign-mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
(Mashable) -- Facebook plans to roll out a major redesign of user profiles at its f8 developer conference this week, Mashable has learned.
Details about the redesign are sparse, but two sources familiar with Facebook's plans (who have asked to remain anonymous) have told us that the redesign is "major" and will make Facebook profiles nexuses for consuming content.
The profile changes will be part of a wider launch, one that will include launch of a music and media platform.
Here's what we know so far about the profile redesign:
-- The redesigned profiles will be more "sticky," says one source. One of the goals of the new profiles is to get users to stay on them for longer.
-- We already knew Facebook is launching a media platform at f8. However, we've also learned that the platform -- which will include music and video from partner sites -- will display the media content a user is watching or listening to on their profiles. Essentially, when you're listening to Lady Gaga on Spotify, your friends can see and access that on your Facebook profile. This confirms a recent New York Times report.
-- The redesigned profiles are part of a larger push into social ecommerce. We don't exactly know what that means, but we've heard whispers that Facebook intends to give Facebook Credits more prominence. We've also heard that a Facebook app store may emerge at f8.
-- Facebook's push into ecommerce may be related Project Spartan, an HTML5-based mobile platform rumored to be launching soon.
Facebook is being tight-lipped about the changes; the company declined to comment on this story. However, more and more pieces of Facebook's big launch continue to leak out as the excitement builds for f8 (feel free to send us screenshots if you have any) The company is currently under lockdown, trying to fix the final bugs before Thursday's big launch.
The F8 Developer's Conference is Sept 22nd.
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MrsA1012
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Ugh, again! I feel every time they change Facebook it only gets worse.
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| Posted 9/20/11 11:56 AM |
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tink23
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Not excited about this. It seems like fb is becoming a more high- tech version of myspace.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:00 PM |
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pjc92980
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
ugh i hate when they change things!
i still wish they would get rid of the option to download other people's photos...that is the worst feature in my opinion
i hate posting pics on their bc my crazy MIL downloads EVERYTHING I post posts it on her own page
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:04 PM |
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jilliibabii
Mrs. O'Connor
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Another one? 
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:06 PM |
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HoneyBadger
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
I'm sure I'm in the minority but I'm down with change if it's really for the betterment of the site and the users.
The point of social networks is to be social. It's to connect various parts of your life and have them centrally located for viewing. My only gripe would be if they didn't have settings that allowed someone to edit exactly what they want to share.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:32 PM |
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Lisa
I'm a PANK!!!
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by Jennie0898
The point of social networks is to be social. It's to connect various parts of your life and have them centrally located for viewing.
I agree with you. I will never understand someone that is on FB yet blocks everything and people can see...why bother??  doesnt sound too social to me!! 
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:36 PM |
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NervousNell
Just another chapter in life..
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by Lisa
Posted by Jennie0898
The point of social networks is to be social. It's to connect various parts of your life and have them centrally located for viewing.
I agree with you. I will never understand someone that is on FB yet blocks everything and people can see...why bother?? doesnt sound too social to me!!
Yep I know some people who's FB page is locked down tighter than Fort Knoxx!
Seriously you can't even find them in a search- so what is the point of being on if you can't even be found?
Isn't the point to reconnect with people and "NETWORK"?
Sometimes I think peopel think they are SO important that they need to lock their page down tighter than a celeb would.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:48 PM |
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JaydenT
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Change is good but major change is bad.
There was a change recently and even if you have everything JUST friends, if the person's wall YOU comment on is NOT only friends, people can see your comment.
Also if you block a friend from your wall, they still see some posts.
Don't believe me? Check how your page looks to the public and/or that friend.
I am for more privacy controls. I know you all think well I am on a social site..but that's social to your friends only. Would you want a stranger and/or frienemy come to your house and steal pics?
Edit: some people tighten down their controls due to their employment.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:49 PM |
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PrettyPeonies
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
I am so done w/FB. The changes, the drama that certain ppl bring to it. If it weren't for the fact that my 92 yr old Grandma is on it , I'd delete my profile. I hope the changes dont confuse her too much.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:49 PM |
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HoneyBadger
YourWorstNightmare.
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Lisa
Posted by Jennie0898
The point of social networks is to be social. It's to connect various parts of your life and have them centrally located for viewing.
I agree with you. I will never understand someone that is on FB yet blocks everything and people can see...why bother?? doesnt sound too social to me!!
Yep I know some people who's FB page is locked down tighter than Fort Knoxx!
Seriously you can't even find them in a search- so what is the point of being on if you can't even be found?
Isn't the point to reconnect with people and "NETWORK"?
I agree, this sort of defeats the point of social networking.
I get having stuff private so that not everyone and their mother can see your profile when you're not friends but if you are? What's the point in friending them if you don't want them to see stuff on your page?
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:51 PM |
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HoneyBadger
YourWorstNightmare.
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by MrsJFG
I am so done w/FB. The changes, the drama that certain ppl bring to it. If it weren't for the fact that my 92 yr old Grandma is on it , I'd delete my profile. I hope the changes dont confuse her too much.
But if you really hate it that much why not delete your page?
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:51 PM |
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PrettyPeonies
GAW my baby boy <3
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Pino
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by Jennie0898
Posted by MrsJFG
I am so done w/FB. The changes, the drama that certain ppl bring to it. If it weren't for the fact that my 92 yr old Grandma is on it , I'd delete my profile. I hope the changes dont confuse her too much.
But if you really hate it that much why not delete your page?
it's an easy way to communicate w/my Grandma, multiple times through out the day.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:53 PM |
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NervousNell
Just another chapter in life..
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by JaydenT
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There was a change recently and even if you have everything JUST friends, if the person's wall YOU comment on is NOT only friends, people can see your comment.
Also if you block a friend from your wall, they still see some posts.
Don't believe me? Check how your page looks to the public and/or that friend.
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I don't know- maybe I'm very laxed, but it doesn't bother me who sees what I write on someone's wall.
If it's THAT private- I won't be putting it on a FB wall- kwim?
I could always send a private message to the person if I didn't want it viewed.
To me- the wall is PUBLIC- for posting public things.
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| Posted 9/20/11 12:55 PM |
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JaydenT
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by JaydenT
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There was a change recently and even if you have everything JUST friends, if the person's wall YOU comment on is NOT only friends, people can see your comment.
Also if you block a friend from your wall, they still see some posts.
Don't believe me? Check how your page looks to the public and/or that friend.
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I don't know- maybe I'm very laxed, but it doesn't bother me who sees what I write on someone's wall.
If it's THAT private- I won't be putting it on a FB wall- kwim?
I could always send a private message to the person if I didn't want it viewed.
To me- the wall is PUBLIC- for posting public things.
Agreed but what if you worked for a company whose coworkers checks crap? It can be so innocent and read wrong. I don't but my friend has one that does. A friend actually can't HAVE FB as part of her job even under fake name (what!?).
BTW the public wall is not like a group or whatever, another person who hasn't set their settings right!
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kimbalina
Bring on the glitter and bows!
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
I love Fb but right now my FB is running awful. I wish they would fix the bugs in the system before making major changes.
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| Posted 9/20/11 1:26 PM |
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tink23
Step by step....
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Lori
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
I don't have any crazy privacy settings and I get the whole social networking and public thing, I just think that it becomes a problem for people to keep on top of their privacy settings when fb changes.
I'm sure that even though you are friends with a co- worker on fb, you probably don't want them to see your status about your a$$hole boss.
I kinda see fb like a catch 22; it's great way to keep in touch with friends easily, but it exposes you in many ways to people that you may not want to.
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| Posted 9/20/11 1:28 PM |
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JDubs
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
i block everyone besides my friends and don't allow a public search on me, but i'm on fb because i like to stay in contact w/ family and friends and see what they're up to- plus some of my friends only use FB as their mode of communication!
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| Posted 9/20/11 1:36 PM |
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Posted by JDubs
i block everyone besides my friends and don't allow a public search on me, but i'm on fb because i like to stay in contact w/ family and friends and see what they're up to- plus some of my friends only use FB as their mode of communication!
Same here, I have very tight security settings on my FB profile and even only accept Friend requests from people I actually know or have dealt with long enough to trust they are legit. I cant post a lot of things because my job actually keeps tabs on social media things like this, and even my co-workers and I keep any work related postings to a minimum because as another LIF'er recently posted, some poor guy at a law firm got fired because his friend posted a gay comment on his wall.. So I am very neurotic about what info I post and what my friends post on my Wall.
I dont understand whyy Facebook needs to constantly screw around with our privacy settings. I am just happy with the site as it is now, why f@#2 it up more? 
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| Posted 9/20/11 3:56 PM |
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HoneyBadger
YourWorstNightmare.
Member since 10/06 15979 total posts
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by JaydenT
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by JaydenT
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There was a change recently and even if you have everything JUST friends, if the person's wall YOU comment on is NOT only friends, people can see your comment.
Also if you block a friend from your wall, they still see some posts.
Don't believe me? Check how your page looks to the public and/or that friend.
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I don't know- maybe I'm very laxed, but it doesn't bother me who sees what I write on someone's wall.
If it's THAT private- I won't be putting it on a FB wall- kwim?
I could always send a private message to the person if I didn't want it viewed.
To me- the wall is PUBLIC- for posting public things.
Agreed but what if you worked for a company whose coworkers checks crap? It can be so innocent and read wrong. I don't but my friend has one that does. A friend actually can't HAVE FB as part of her job even under fake name (what!?).
BTW the public wall is not like a group or whatever, another person who hasn't set their settings right!
This is why I make it a practice to not be friends with anyone I work with that I'm not social with.
If I wouldn't hang with you in real life, you're not on my page.
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| Posted 9/20/11 4:03 PM |
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HoneyBadger
YourWorstNightmare.
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by JDubs
i block everyone besides my friends and don't allow a public search on me, but i'm on fb because i like to stay in contact w/ family and friends and see what they're up to- plus some of my friends only use FB as their mode of communication!
I'm not asking this to be snarky, I'm asking a legitimate question...
If you're not searchable how did your friends find you on FB? And what's the point of being on FB if you're not "findable"?
I get that it's a way of communication with some friends be it those who may live far away or ones you don't see very often but what's the point in not being searchable?
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| Posted 9/20/11 4:06 PM |
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DiamondGirl
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
So they can see everyone's business and no one can see theres is what I think...sort of obnoxious. I get being careful w/who your friends are but if I am your friend and cant see your wall or anything then I am unfriending you lol
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| Posted 9/20/11 4:20 PM |
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Lisa
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
the only thing I do lock down is any naked pics....
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| Posted 9/20/11 4:37 PM |
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
Posted by Jennie0898
Posted by JDubs
i block everyone besides my friends and don't allow a public search on me, but i'm on fb because i like to stay in contact w/ family and friends and see what they're up to- plus some of my friends only use FB as their mode of communication!
I'm not asking this to be snarky, I'm asking a legitimate question...
If you're not searchable how did your friends find you on FB? And what's the point of being on FB if you're not "findable"?
I get that it's a way of communication with some friends be it those who may live far away or ones you don't see very often but what's the point in not being searchable?
I'm not searchable so I found all of my friends. Now the most secure setting is letting Friends of Friends search/ request you. At the time I got FB I was teaching and didn't want students to find me. Haven't taught in years so u don't really care now. I've always kept a strict no clepsydra rule bc I like to vent about work on FB and don't want to have to worry about being politically correct etc! I think that FB is a great way to stay informed. I like a bunch of news pages and get most of my news through FB. I don't think it should be legal to let your job tell you you can not have FB when it is becoming such a major part of everyday life. I think those employers that restrict it need to get with the times!!!
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| Posted 9/20/11 4:56 PM |
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pinky
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Re: Facebook to launch profile redesign
not again! 
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