{"id":363,"date":"2011-11-07T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2014-08-18T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:30:39","slug":"the-top-5-facebook-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/the-top-5-facebook-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 5 Facebook Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Facebook-Changes.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5567\" src=\"https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/28183882_s-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Changes\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/28183882_s-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/pingler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/28183882_s.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>Facebook users are a fickle bunch. \u00a0Whenever there is a change to the layout of the world\u2019s most visited website, it is usually met with a bunch of whining about how nobody likes the new layout, and a bunch of groups forming who want it changed back. \u00a0Of course, it never gets changed back, and we all get used to the new design only to complain when it gets changed again. \u00a0In a bid to look at these things more positively, here we take a look at some memorable and good changes to Facebook that have happened over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dropping the \u201cis\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A tiny change, but one of the most important. \u00a0Status updates used to consist of the user\u2019s name followed by the word \u201cis\u201d, meaning you either had to construct your status around it or just ignore it, meaning you ended up with some pretty weird looking stuff in your news feed. \u00a0\u201cAmanda is I love bacon!\u201d and suchlike. \u00a0The most significant thing about this was that it represented a shift from the status being in a prescribed structure to it being freeform, much more like, well, a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tagging Friends in Statuses and Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally, you could only tag people in photos. \u00a0Then came the addition of the tags you could use in your comments and statuses, so that anybody mentioned in them would see them on their own walls. \u00a0This was a move to make the social network a bit more social, as users were able to include their friends in what they were posting far more easily and make sure that the tagged friends saw what they had said. \u00a0The use of the \u201c@\u201d to do this did seem a little like it had been stolen from Twitter, but that\u2019s OK, think of it as convergence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Checking In<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Realizing the enhanced benefits that could be offered to users on mobile devices, Facebook began to allow users to \u201ccheck in\u201c to the locations they visited, and tag the friends they were with in these updates. \u00a0Overused by some people (do you need to know which room of their house somebody is in?) and terrible for getting you caught out when you\u2019ve lied about where you\u2019re going, this does have some practical uses as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sidebar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Criticized because its way of deciding who you \u201cmost regularly interact with\u201d seems a bit random, and because a lot of the news people are finding popping up in their sidebars is about people they don\u2019t know (for instance when your friend writes on the wall of someone you don\u2019t know, it tells you), the sidebar does have some good points. \u00a0It gives you an at a glance view of who is online, and also of new status updates and comments from your friends, whatever page you are looking it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chat and Messaging Integration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook chat has never been the best IM solution, and the message inbox 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