About
September 5th, 2006 by kiyoshimartinez
Welcome to SaveFacebook.com and thanks for your time and concern about the recent changes at Facebook.com — namely the introduction of “News” and “Mini” feeds.
This site will provide you with ways to help reverse Facebook.com’s current feeds features and hopefully get them to realize that its users really don’t like the recent turn of events.
What are these “feeds”?
What are the “News Feed” and “Mini Feed” on Facebook? Well, straight from the official Facebook blog, Ruchi Sanghvi explains:
News Feed highlights what’s happening in your social circles on Facebook. It updates a personalized list of news stories throughout the day, so you’ll know when Mark adds Britney Spears to his Favorites or when your crush is single again. Now, whenever you log in, you’ll get the latest headlines generated by the activity of your friends and social groups.
Mini-Feed is similar, except that it centers around one person. Each person’s Mini-Feed shows what has changed recently in their profile and what content (notes, photos, etc.) they’ve added. Check out your own Mini-Feed; if there are any stories you don’t like, you can remove them from your profile.
So, what’s the controversy?
Many students within just the first 24 hours of the introduction of Facebook.com’s feeds have expressed their opinion that they don’t like it.
Some students worry that it makes too much information public by announcing everytime they make a change to their profile or add a comment to another person’s profile.
Others feel the introduction of feeds are not necessary at all, as they provide too much information for users at once. These feeds let you know every mundane detail about every single one of your friends in real-time, such as relationship status, interests, bulletin board (wall) postings, friend additions, leaving and joining groups.
Facebook.com’s defense of the introduction of feeds is just simply taking all this public information and putting it all in one place. While it is obvious that all of a user’s action are public, these actions aren’t broadcasted over a bullhorn to all of a user’s friends everytime they log in.
Many users have called these introductions “creepy” and “stalker-ish” and want an option to turn off their broadcasted feeds to others and to stop having feeds on their “Home” page.
The protest (so far)
Within just one day, several groups have cropped up and one has emerged as the largest gathering point for people opposed to the feeds: Students against Facebook News Feed.
Currently, this group has more than 26,000 members in just under one day. And this is just one such group filled with users who dislike Facebook.com’s new feeds.
We’ve started a petition that has received more than a thousand signatures in less than a day.
Again, this is only Phase 1 of what could be a larger plan.
Our goals and hopes
Our goals and hopes are really simple:
We just want Facebook.com to be more flexible when it comes to feeds and for the administrators to listen to the community that has helped Facebook.com to become the successful social network it is today.
