FatemaYasmine

December 7, 2010

The New Facebook Facelift.

- Fatema Yasmine
  How do we feel about the new FB changes?
  Yesterday at 10:35am ·
  
  Ravia Khatun likes this.
  
  Jakia Khanom Not happy!!
  Yesterday at 10:37am · Like
  
  Fatema Yasmine i dont like the two step process in updating your status.
  Yesterday at 10:39am · Like ·   2 people
  
  Jakia Khanom i dont like any of it! Change is not good!!
  Yesterday at 10:43am · Like
  
  Shamik Das Maybe I'm being incredibly thick, but not noticing any new changes! What's happened?
  Yesterday at 10:52am · Like
  
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  Muhammad Aasim the first thing that came to mind was Big B's quote "mujhe parivardhan pasand nahi hai, mr aryan"
  Yesterday at 11:01am · Like ·   1 person
  
  Mamunur Rahman dont like the new profile layout. its all cool apart from the row of pics where the tabs use to be, the post on wall section.. in the words of jay sean bring it back.
  Yesterday at 11:09am · Like
  
  Muhammad Aasim but then again, in the words of jay sean again 'its not the end of the world'... :)
  Yesterday at 11:11am · Like
  
  Abdul Munim What's the changes? Haven't logged on my laptop for ages!
  Yesterday at 11:22am · Like
  
  Abdul Nusrat Hate them. Make profiles look so ugly
  Yesterday at 11:37am · Like
  
  Mooktakim Ahmed Updating status is ok, but most of the time your posting text, so its annoying you have to click twice.
  Yesterday at 12:04pm · Unlike ·   1 person
  
  Mooktakim Ahmed Also, you used to have a larger area to click to enable the textbox, now you have to click small "Text" link.
  Yesterday at 12:05pm · Like
  
  Fatema Yasmine nope. i dont like it. but we will get used to it no doubt.
  Yesterday at 5:16pm · Like
  
  Mush Rahman Crap y do they do that lol
  Yesterday at 6:20pm · Like
  
  Mamunur Rahman Update: the little box under your profile pic that usually has people's quotes is missing. I liked the fact that you could write a little personal tag but now its capoot.

Filed under // facebook facebook profile changes

Posted by Fatema Yasmine

November 1, 2010

Facebook Friendship Pages made me cry, it will probably make you cry too.

Facebook has launched a new and very cool feature called Friendship Pages. Whenever a friend posts on your wall and vice versa you will see a little link that says; 'see friendship' - this takes you to a 'Friendship Page'. Friendship Pages is a wonderful way of remembering the depths of your relationship with people who you share your Facebook with.

When I viewed my relationship with my husband, Immad Akhund, Facebook pulled in our wedding photo as the main photo for our shared page. It also populated the page with events we had attended, comments we made and even Facebook Pages we had in common. This was a lovely nostalgia fueled trip down memory lane - especially good for Immad as his longterm memory sucks.

Facebook has become much more cluttered and this feature takes away the digging needed to see your relationship with a friend. You can also search and view relationships between your friends and their friends. But do not worry, people can only see the information that you have given access too.

Be warned this does get a little addictive. After 'aaawwwing' my way through mine and Immad's relationship, I looked at mine and my sisters, Mahumuda's Friendship Page. This time it made me cry a little, the last two events we had attended together was so long ago. She lives in London and I am here in San Francisco, yes I miss her a lot.

There are only a few people I would want to do this search for. Also the thought of mine and Immad's friends having access to view our Friendship Page freaks me out a little, for no other reason then the fact that they would probably feel nauseous from all the icky-love. In our defense these posts were made over the duration of 4 years and is presented in a more concentrated form on our Friendship Page.

*sick bucket please*

I can only see myself using Friendship Pages infrequently. I am uncertain if pushing this feature into such a prominent position (profile page under each wall post) is a brilliant idea. This feels more like a trend/fad then a integral feature. Friendship Pages would have defiantly made a killer application and will certainly increase user engagement but to be a vital organ it needs to perform a stronger function. It would be interesting to see if Facebook views this as a platform and allows others to build on top of it.

Everything aside, Facebook Friendship Pages brilliantly brings home the message that, Facebook is once again all about your friends.

Filed under // facebook facebook frienship page social media tech what is facebook frienship pages

Posted by Fatema Yasmine

May 31, 2010

Fighting Biased News Coverage - Do It Yourself Using Facebook (FreedomFlotilla)

I've written this post so that we can all do our little bit to loosen the grip the big media distrubtuors hold over news reporting. Everytime I have attended a demonstration in London the news outlets especially the BBC have been incredibly biased on coverage. The last demonstration I went to there were 200,000 people present and most major news stations reported that only 6,000 attended- shamelessly falsifying the information. There is shocking reports that Twitter disabled the Flotilla hastag has sent shivers down my spine.

If you are attending the demonstration tomorrow for Flotilla you should report the news yourself. If people in Iran were able to stop their government from censorship - with their lack of internet/mobile/computer access, people in the west should be able to do the same. It's very simple to do.

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