8 Ways to Use Social Share Buttons on Your Blog

Dan Rosenbaum · San Francisco, California
This is spot on! Great article. I love the fact that you can now passively influence people and see what they did with your content. In the past, if you found something cool, you would have to go to Facebook and post it yourself (i.e. Music). Now your feed will update instantaneously. I can't wait to test this out.
Reply · 78 · · September 22 at 4:41pm

Niall Lucas · Calne
I prefer to live in the real world. In my view, this is social networking gone too far. I don't want my life run by Facebook, I want Facebook to be there when I need to connect to the people I can't be with in person. A timeline also sounds pointless, as well as the instantaneous uploads, as I prefer to be in control of what I share with the web. Also, who really f**king cares if I'm listening to a certain song? No one's arbitrary activites are that important, if important at all. If they were, they'd actively share it themselves.
Reply · 159 · · September 22 at 5:00pm

Dan Rosenbaum · San Francisco, California
Niall Lucas I agree with you, I wouldn't want my life run by Facebook either, but I think you're missing the point. It's the other way around, you control Facebook. You share what you want to share. If you don't want to share what music you're listening to, you don't have to. I think Facebook is smart enough to roll out controls for the new features that they talked about today.
Reply · 25 · · September 22 at 5:06pm

Niall Lucas · Calne
Dan Rosenbaum I don't doubt that they will. My point was only that I don't see the need. If, for example, I really like a song/video on youtube and I want to share it with friends, I can share that link manually and it only takes around 5 seconds. What Facebook seems to be proposing is a system that, unless I turn it off, automatically uploads whenever I do something signed into this system. It's fine if I share the odd song, but everytime I listen to Spotify? Everytime I read an article on a website? It sounds like too much of an influx of information. Again, I know there will be controls etc. But I personally like sharing information I find interesting myself, and not telling Facebook when it is okay and not okay to do so. In a way, I suppose I feel kind of like the social networking site is getting 'too smart'. It's one thing to connect people together, but to actually follow their online activity across the whole web? Seems like Facebook is stepping over some privacy boundaries, among other things. I may be reading a bit too much into it, but honestly, I just want the old Facebook back.
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Joshua Lee Palmer · Top Commenter · Webmaster at Mofobian.com
To my dismay, I've been riding the Facebook hate wagon all week, and today I regret it. They've truly taken the next major step in social networking with this "timeline" plate. I must give Facebook credit where it is due, well done, very well done.
Reply · 49 · · September 22 at 4:52pm

Delali GadEl · Top Commenter · Editor at HubBlogs with GADEL
Google has a BIG surprise coming in the few weeks . . . I guess :)
Reply · 1 · · September 23 at 7:16am

Mindy Beaumont-Champollion · Systems analyst at Lockheed Martin
I love to give them their due If I could see what it is they have done that has any use to me.
Reply · 3 · · September 23 at 11:49am

Sam Records
If you were sick of hearing about what your aunt had for breakfast and who your co-workers had "friended" on Facebook, wait until you know every single song they've listened to and every single movie they've watched.
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Zach Ritter · The University of Texas at Austin
The keynote today really reminded me of an Apple keynote, in several ways. Presentation: it looks like Zuck has been studying the keynotes of Jobs. Jobs has been associated with Apple as strongly as Zuck is with Facebook. Content: Facebook is giving people what they don't yet know that they want. They are really blowing away everyone else in terms of innovation.
Reply · 46 · · September 22 at 4:45pm

MG Siegler · Top Commenter · General Partner at CrunchFund
yeah i mean the "intersection of...." at the end was a total apple rip. everyone knows it. and that's fine. if you're going to copy, copy the best.
Reply · 27 · · September 22 at 4:47pm

Alex Vizzini · Graphic design at Alternative Visuals
Ya, I saw the similarities to Apple.
Reply · · September 22 at 4:58pm

Paul Miranda · Top Commenter
Zuckerberg still talks and think like a geek.. That's the big difference between him and Jobs.. Jobs ropes you in to his reality distortion field, you don't even realize it. He doesn't use geek terms, he talks a language everyone can understand.
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Guy Borgford · Top Commenter · VP Strategy at Fgi.com
Another article courtesy of Facebook PR machine.
Reply · 178 · · September 22 at 4:46pm

Dan Keldsen · Boston, Massachusetts
Certainly reads like it, eh?
Reply · 15 · · September 22 at 5:41pm

Oyvind Solstad · Communications advisor digital media at Carat Norge
Do you actually believe what you write?
Reply · 3 · · September 22 at 10:58pm

Sandeep Shantharam · Top Commenter · CEO & Founder at Desinle
I dont think Siegler would do that.. We know him..
Reply · 4 · · September 22 at 11:16pm
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Christopher Jc · Top Commenter
wow...this dude is sucking major fb nuts right now.
Reply · 25 · · September 22 at 4:51pm

Vincent Fincher · Savannah, Georgia
And yet, Facebook is still just more of the same over-bloated crapware. No thanks.
Reply · 20 · · September 22 at 4:41pm

Dave Nattriss · Executive Secretary at FB Developer Garage London
Wow, the very definition of ignorance!
Reply · 6 · · September 22 at 6:00pm

Vincent Fincher · Savannah, Georgia
Dave Nattriss Is that your best?
Reply · 1 · · September 22 at 6:05pm

Dave Nattriss · Executive Secretary at FB Developer Garage London
Vincent Fincher You get what you deserve.
Reply · 10 · · September 22 at 6:10pm
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Jeff Panikar · Los Angeles, California
Another MG Crap!
Reply · 18 · · September 22 at 5:04pm

Oday Nasser · Top Commenter
yet you read it. he must be doing something right
Reply · 2 · · September 23 at 1:45pm

Michael Castillo · Walnut Creek, California
please remove nose from in between FB's posterior before writing another article, Mr. Siegler, it's hard to find any meaningful arguments when its lodged so far in.
Reply · 17 · · September 22 at 5:14pm

Brian Machado
Wrong. +1 > like.
Reply · 16 · · September 22 at 4:40pm

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
[citation needed]
Reply · 28 · · September 22 at 4:40pm

Sushubh Mittal · Top Commenter
Google already probably knows what sites regular web users are visiting through their Analytics engine. +1 is different from Like or whatever largely because Google prefer you +1 pages that you think are useful and not just because you visited that page. Do I care what my contacts on Facebook are doing all day long on the internet? No. Do I care about the useful content that they have discovered on the web? Yes.
Reply · 34 · · September 22 at 4:49pm

Brian Machado
Max Woolf Opinion.
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Tundey Akinsanya · Top Commenter · George Mason
How can you tell this is an MG article?

* totally bombastic title: check.
* fawningly positive review of a new web 2.0 thing: check.
* inevitable positive reference to Apple: check check check.

Seriously though, didn't you compliment Google+? Didn't you say it was taking the fight to facebook? And now just because facebook is out with something new, you immediately dump google+. Reminds me of a kid that dumps his old toys on chrismas morning.
Reply · 14 · · September 22 at 5:40pm

Tundey Akinsanya · Top Commenter · George Mason
Here's where you complimented Google+'s design and gave credit to Apple because a guy that hasn't worked at Apple for 20 years worked on Google+: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus-design-andy-hertzfeld/
Reply · 1 · · September 22 at 5:50pm

Raymond Lau · Editorial and Media Development at Yahoo!
Tundey Akinsanya Just because he complimented Google+'s design doesn't mean he can't compliment Facebook's new features. Why are the two even exclusive to each other?
Reply · 1 · · September 23 at 1:53am

Tundey Akinsanya · Top Commenter · George Mason
Raymond Lau Sure he can do both. Both in this article, he writes like Google is clueless when even he applauded Google's move (knowing what was known back then). You can't say "hey, I like this shiny object. It's great" and then poohpooh that same shiny object just because you have a new one. That's my point.
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 11:23am

Drew Olanoff · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California
for me, its going to be content vs. conversation, and + has conversation...it's not a Vs. in my opinion.
Reply · 12 · · September 22 at 4:41pm

Dave Nattriss · Executive Secretary at FB Developer Garage London
G+? Try having some people (you don't know) subscribe to you on Facebook - conversation flows just as easily.
Reply · · September 22 at 6:00pm

Mathew Ranauro · Founder & CEO at Meeps
So impressed with Timeline. I've found myself clicking into my profile several times today just to noodle and look back at content and posts.

The Open Graph is nothing short of outstanding. Brilliant stuff that will help categorize content and display it in a very clever way.
Reply · 8 · · September 22 at 4:47pm

David Lee · Top Commenter
same here. when i got it, i couldn't help myself and went all the way back to the beginning and seeing how things were. granted for me it was only 5 years ago, but still far enough that i forgotten a few things
Reply · 3 · · September 23 at 12:29am

Raymond Lau · Editorial and Media Development at Yahoo!
Agree completely, I don't know what the hate is all about. It's fascinating to see your own past, and even better to manipulate that information and craft out an identity for yourself to present your best to others.
Reply · · September 23 at 1:50am

Jane Casler · Simmons College
But will anyone else be as intrigued by me as I am- just sayin'
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Erik K Veland · Bond
Did everyone forget that the "Timeline" is a reintroduction of a feature that was killed way back in 2006? It was the only time I've ever complained about a Facebook change.
Reply · 7 · · September 22 at 4:45pm

Aleksey Korzun · Top Commenter
Thank you. Timeline is just something they dusted off since G+ made them crunch features out.
Reply · 1 · · September 22 at 5:43pm

Dave Nattriss · Executive Secretary at FB Developer Garage London
Aleksey Korzun Actually Mark Zuckerberg said they'd been working on Timeline for about a year.
Reply · · September 22 at 6:04pm

Aleksey Korzun · Top Commenter
Dave Nattriss Actually it has been live way back. Under different name (live profile?) Same concept.
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Michel Chaghouri · USC
Kept waiting for the apple fanboi-ism. Thank you for satisfying us with your predictability.

Also, MG, let's make a drinking game in your honor, wherein every non-sequiter apple reference deserves a shot.
Reply · 6 · · September 22 at 4:49pm

Jonathan Seamans · Top Commenter · Chapman
With the majority of his articles you'd get alcohol poisoning two paragraphs in.
Reply · 5 · · September 22 at 5:29pm

Chris Saad · VP Strategy at Echo
All true... AND This is Beacon 2.0. Omitting point from the post is really a big oversight.
Reply · 6 · · September 22 at 4:38pm

Christian Scholz · Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter at COM.lounge
but why would it work better than Beacon? That will be interesting to watch.
Reply · · September 22 at 4:42pm

Shaun McLane · Owner at Lake Nona Pools
I was going to "Like" this comment, but apparently, I don't need to anymore. So, FB will soon magically tell you I enjoyed it.
Reply · 17 · · September 22 at 4:44pm

Christian Scholz · Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter at COM.lounge
Shaun McLane as you of course enjoy everything you read ;-)
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Rick Kats · Top Commenter · Toronto, Ontario
I'm not digging the timeline, I have it enabled and I feel that going back is as looking at a different person I've changed with time. Life is about moving forward not about looking backwards. Everything else they released is good but not the timeline.
Reply · 4 · · September 22 at 5:00pm

Dan Farfan · Phoenix, Arizona
I think everyone you know is the target audience for your past, not you.
Reply · 1 · · September 22 at 10:42pm

George Adams
This is seriosuly retarded. Who in the right mind would want to share something every 5 seconds? And who has the time to care about everything what shows up in Ticker?
Reply · 4 · · September 22 at 5:40pm

Luke Hendrickson · San Francisco, California
Word up.
Reply · 4 · · September 22 at 4:36pm

Khan Manka Jr. · Top Commenter · Chairman & CEO at Manka Bros. Studios
It's one thing to innovate, it's another thing to suck and say F you to your users. Sure, everyone will adjust - what else do we have to do with our miserable lives - but, Jesus, this tracking of every move we make has to stop. And, I'm sure, after time, the complaining users (including me) will not be able to live without the new changes. But, man, this is literally right out of the old Soviet Union or the current China (with better graphics). I seriously think Facebook must be stopped for the good of the world...

http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2011/09/01/facebook-must-be-stopped/
Reply · 3 · · September 22 at 5:51pm

Allan Haggett · Developer at Hitchless Web Development
"The end of open! Blah. Blah. Blah." Open is NOT "blah." Open is essential. Open should not be so summarily and stupidly dismissed like this. Facebook is very much a "walled garden." And it is not a responsible one at that; they've more than proven that they are willing take liberties with people's privacy, and that's not a trivial thing. I stopped reading that statement, as what could the rest of the article possibly have to offer with such a moronic statement right at the beginning. Moron.
Reply · 3 · · September 22 at 5:28pm

Bill K Gwan · Top Commenter · Works at Five conditions,Inc
Is this a facebook PR statement? Wait so now anything I do will be on display? what about my privacy and me having control? Oh I remember when everybody was leaving myspace for the minimalist facebook. Well I just wish they gave us the option not to update. And please don't bring Google+ into this, Google is a data company so I think they will prefer the limited intelligent conversations on G+ to all the noise or any revolutional redesign. Good job spinning the news.
Reply · 3 · · September 22 at 6:21pm

Chloe Rodriguez · Top Commenter
I really couldn't read past the belittlement of bashing G+ bcoz of a Timeline thingy saying what I was doing the past 4 year using a social network, two letter for whoever wrote this blinded in blue articled... BS
Reply · 3 · · September 23 at 12:01am

Reza Sarmadi · Top Commenter · CEO & Founder at IMedia Enterprises
If you have experience working with the Open Graph API you'd know that Facebook is and has been a pioneer of Social Media Sharing technologies. It's only a matter of time that G+ copies Facebook's Timeline. But then again, trolls don't understand :)
Reply · · September 28 at 12:47pm

John Furrier · Founder and Editor at SiliconANGLE.com & SA Labs
Love MG's passion and think he's right on the vision. I think that FB will have to pull back a bit and tweak it. I just don't see it working short term. Managing user expectations will be difficult but I like the mojo of Facebook.
Reply · 3 · · September 22 at 4:49pm

Jeremy Pepper · The University of Arizona
I like the Gretzky reference. Too few companies know how to skate where the puck is going, and never end up scoring.
Reply · · September 22 at 5:32pm

Shehryar Siddiqi · Top Commenter · Communications Consultant at Independent
Points for using one of the greatest quotes of all time from the greatest hockey players of all time.
Cenk Ulukaya
Who would wanna see everything their friends do? There is no selective sharing anymore. Everything, and I mean everything you do, is going to be posted on facebook. Forget how absurd this is, who's gonna look and read that much information on facebook? I have 100 friends. Most people can double or triple that. Consider the amount of information that's going to be shared on my news feed. This move is more for facebook than the users. I hope it backlashes. Social media should be more simple and user controlled.
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Aaron Michael Rowe · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · College of Southern Nevada
Thank you, like everyone is suddenly going to go to Google+, yeah fat chance on that.
· 3 · · 22 , 16:43

Cathy Hacker
they already are...
· 1 · · 22 , 17:10

Brandon Hanchett · Newton Senior High
They are now, yeah, but will they stay?
· · 22 , 17:12

Brandon Hanchett · Newton Senior High
I tried it, I couldn't stay. I couldn't find anything on G+.
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Adam Young · Eugene, Oregon
Nothing could be further from the truth, further proof that you have lost touch. The products have completely different notions of what it means to be social on the internet. For that all one has to do is look at the definition of social, and they will realize there is nothing social about a profile page, no matter how you decide to display the content. MySpace learned this lesson from Facebook, it was inward as well.

If you make people come to your profile to socialize with you, it will be a fail. Sure you close friends and family might visit your page from time to time, but if you think anyone outside your inner circle is going to spend more than a couple minutes on there as they hit the subscript button, you have no concept of the attention spans of people. What's important is how you get your content and the quality of tha...Devamını Gör
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Geoffrey Allan Plauché · Buena Vista University'de Adjunct Instructor
"With the new Open Graph, you’re sharing stuff as you do it. You don’t have to think about it. You’re listening to music on Spotify and it’s being shared with your friends automatically in the Facebook Ticker. The only button you hit is “play”."

Hello last.fm scrobble! Not innovative. Sorry.
· 2 · · 22 , 17:03

Mateusz Sienkan
From now we'll scrobble to Facebook 'cause it's more popular than Last.fm so more friends will see what we are listening to... Really, I didn't know being innovative means being popular.
· · 22 , 18:10

Dave Nattriss · FB Developer Garage London'da Executive Secretary
Actually, the innovation here is it works across many many music listening services at once. Oh, and that last.fm is not used by most people that most people know.
· · 22 , 18:20

Mateusz Sienkan
Dave Nattriss What? I can scrobble to Last.fm from many many music services too, including the one mentioned in the article - Spotify... and many many many desktop players can scrobble too... my Android phone can scrobble too... and my iPod can scrobble too... I can scrobble even my vinyls... and YouTube! Well, I can scrobble to Last.fm anything I'm hearing. As I said, the innovation in Facebok is being popular... combined with copying features from other social networks (this time it's Last.fm from who they copied).
· 1 · · 22 , 18:34

Vinay Padma · Turner Fenton Secondary School
Not really. If I want to share something, I will click the 'share' button. The share button is not so much of an inconvenience, I don't really see the new method as being viable. That kind of spontaneous social networking is for places like Twitter, I don't want my FB newsfeed to be full of what of this automatic sharing nonsense.
· 2 · · 22 , 17:06

Tom BigLucky · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · University of Calgary
Look, it's innovative. I'll give them that.
But it's going to scare a lot of their userbase away. The publicization of connections is pulling in random people onto users' homepages. And then there are all the REALLY intrusive actions like geolocations, tagging, song sharing, route sharing, and all these stupid stat apps that are going to FLOOD the ticker.
I think people are going to be uncomfortable and leave. The whole world isn't all up on foursquare bullshit and sharing everything. Most people don't like this stupid social scrapbooking.

I think they've crossed a lot of lines in the last month particularly.
· 2 · · 22 , 20:12

Dany Pelletier · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · FaceFlow'da Founder - Fondateur
Ah shit! Hope it's clear on how to turn that off. Really don't want to be automatically sharing so much stuff I do every day hehe. That's a bet for Facebook though, might work! I wouldn't really call it "Pull an Apple" until we see it in action however?
· 2 · · 22 , 17:55

Alex Gelatt
You know what I really want from FB? One big opt out button that will cover every future change and ensure that I only ever share information, of any sort, that I actually want to share. That's all. I don't see why they find that so difficult.
· 2 · · 22 , 18:19

Vse Zashibiz · RIT
I simply don't care, too busy living in the present and looking forward.
I call this profound "Timewaster", just like many other social tools.
· 2 · · 22 , 17:21

Don Perry
Facebook has really been kicking ass. Yeah, Mr "Privacy" now has a flat butt. Google plus took care of this with circles.
· 2 · · 22 , 16:57

Alex Garcia
Another nonsense article by Mr Siegler. Are you a fool? or don't you realise that timelines are extremely personal to replace a general content area like the profile? Timelines would be great as a way to recount memorable moments in your life. But you want to share work-history with co-workers, family events with family, high school raves with your classmates and so on. You do not want to display your whole life to your new girlfriend that you just added to your Facebook friends. Or disclose to your family what you were doing during those university late nights.
· 2 · · 22 , 22:35

Jacques-André Bondy · Paris, France
Just a step forward into privacy invasion. Step back & look. It's just Orwell's Big Brother a century late what you described. Wake up.
· 2 · · 22 , 18:52

Mike Schwede · Goldbach Group'ta çalışıyor
The new Facebook is cool - for private use, Timeline, your live etc. - but after this redesign commercial stuff on Facebook will be even less accepted by users. So Facebook has to get revenues with music, games, entertainment. Google Plus is not a competitor of Facebook - it's the competitor of Twitter and LinkedIn.

1. Google Plus will be THE business platform with meaningful networking and shahring.
2. It will be THE commercial platform for b2c with business pages, deals and location based services. I think Facebook and Google will rule the world together - and Google will still earn more Money.
· 2 · · 22 , 23:42

Chris Chase · Houston, Texas
I'm pretty sure that these features are only appealing to the same people that like to spam their facebook account with "I'm eating curry tonight, mmmmm" type posts. Is that really socially useful? No, no I don't think so.
· 2 · · 22 , 20:32

David Shaikh · Myspace'de Creative Producer
How much did they pay you? Less cock sucking please...
· 2 · · 23 , 01:06

Craig Truzzi · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Seattle, Washington
Adult sites find a loop whole to use the Open Graph, watch out young children. A new way for parents to monitor what their children are looking at. (This is all partial sarcasm.. but still serious).
· 2 · · 23 , 11:07

Graham Kelly · Wakefield College
so true. if more companies focused on something new there would be more competition in the market but everybody just basically copies the biggest competition not thinking of the next best thing and missing out since by the time they release that copy, the bigger competiton already has something even newer. waste of money, time and consumer's expenses.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:46

Cam Wiese · Bellingham, Washington
I'm have the exact same belief as you do, which is prompting me to create this
· · 22 , 17:18

Mateusz Sienkan
So you imply that scrobbling was invented in 2011 by Facebook?
· · 22 , 18:05

Daniel Rich · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Ross School of Business
Great article. My only dispute is the whole puck analogy. I think it's unfair to put Google in the same camp as Microsoft or HP, seeing as how they essentially reinvented search and then an onslaught of competitors copied them. I agree that much of Google+ is a bit obsolete, but then again, parts of it are not available on Facebook in an intuitive way.

Totally agree that Facebook is leading innovation in the social space though.
· 1 · · 22 , 17:30

Brian Young
Apple skates to where the puck is? Seriously? 4 years ago maybe. FB like apple is trying to play catch-up to Google/android. You realize Google+ was released 2 days to the public. In a year you can get off your knees to fb and see what they have accomplished. One hell of a biases article. Privacy issues? Not even a mention.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:56

Off Topic Hut
Last.FM got this right ages ago. With Last.FM you're sharing your current music and not having to worry about sharing it, the program simply records what music you're listening to.

The idea isn't new, though the idea of it happening without the user installing an executable is.
· 1 · · 22 , 19:08

Salma Jane
It's all a bit over the top for me. I don't necessarily want to share the music I'm listening to or anything else for that matter, automatically without intent. Moreover, I don't really wish to spy on my friends and see what they are consuming either. I mean, who cares, it's a bit of a waste of time and invasive.
· 1 · · 23 , 05:05

Ryo Cook · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
I don't know.. For me it looks like a cheap copy of the features of Google+. It can in no way compete in the quality and easiness of Google+. And sure, I'm still on Facebook. I can't anyone convince to use G+. That doesn't mean Google+ is a big win for me. That's the place for me. Facebook is the place I HAVE to go, Google+ is the place where I'm usually at.
And I think both services can co-exists just fine.
· 1 · · 23 , 06:36

Abhinav Asthana
Woah. Just checked out the new Facebook interface and it has totally Disrupted my life. The change is so emotionally profound that I don't even remember how I lived before. Going back in time and seeing those pieces of my life enclosed in beautiful grey boxes makes me realize there was so much I was missing in my life.
I believe options for posting status updates about "Losing a loved one", "Breaking a bone" have changed the social game. It was so hard to actually put it in words but Facebook has made it so easy so I don't even worry about it anymore. Click, click and click and there it is. To my 700 friends who will all respond with 'Likes' or if I am lucky, with virtual gifts to help me deal with my pain. And thanks to the ads next to my profile, I can easily find a nearby doctor or a funeral service.

Sent from my iPhone 5.
· 1 · · 23 , 12:45

Prayaag Kasundra · Ahmedabad, India
Who says Google is competing Microsoft or Apple.. Google's prime competitor is Facebook.. Future is SocialWeb.. Who win Social web , controls web. And who controls web , earns billion in revenue through ad business.. What is the thing behind Google's success? most of all Google's services are an acquisition. The only thing is their search algorithms and their adword (ad placement) algorithms.. Looking at where Facebook is currently standing and the amount of web data they are analyzing and processing, its not difficult to imagine Facebook create search engine.. Facebook already has more powerful ad targeting algorithms.. They know much more about the user they are targeting than a google. Its about people's identity, people's preferences and interests. Its about social web.. Facebook sure has potential to become Next better search engine..
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Erik K Veland · Bond
The original Social Timeline: http://ryanimel.com/power-facebook-social-timeline/.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:47

Patrick George Jones
This sounds like a PR message and a victory lap. MG IMHO, I would wait a few days before I write something like that up. It's too in the moment, too fresh to put into perspective.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:50

Jason Parent · Decay Nation'da CEO & Founder
Quit drinking the kool-aid TechCrunch. FB is still sh! t.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:52

Da Instrumentalz · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Rare Find Recordings'te Artist
kickin ass & taking names lol - gotta luv TechCrunch.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:40

Yishan Wong · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Sunfire Offices'te Director and Co-Founder
Kicking ass and taking Real Names.
· 7 · · 22 , 16:45

Andrew Dumont · SEOmoz'da Director of Business Development
Truth.
· 1 · · 22 , 16:43

David Simpson · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
So you're a zealot for Facebook as well as Apple? Good luck with that, Facebook blows and has just jumped the shark, you happily ignore the fact that Facebook is losing users in the US and Europe and masking these figures with their expansion into new markets.
· 1 · · 23 , 06:01

Andrew Tejerina · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · New York, New York
are "facebook fanboys" the new "apple fanboys"? Some legitimate observations in there, but it was overwhelmed by a frightening lack of journalistic neutrality. let's dial it back a bit...
· 1 · · 23 , 06:25

Dawn Ross · Gig Harbor, Washington
so yeah FB.. wow really schooled? There is a giant percentage of people who don't like the fact (im one) who does not like the fact that FB can inform others of everything we do. Now it does not take a scientist to know that "simple is better" so why all the changes? Corp bs is so lame and the fact that a like button is so brilliant is sort of silly, now had you also included a "Dislike" then I think maybe bragging on who schooled who would be noted more seriously. Now to get to your "timeline" I do not find it appealing that everyone can see, it doesn't matter who it is. but my "private" viewing and dislike or like is not anyone's business UNLESS I want to make it theirs. I don't like the new changes and yes FB is becoming a great site for stalkers I personally can say this is true. unless of course we HIDE everything! at that's another thing, FB is a perfect place to hide.. honestly its becoming a thing everyone has to post or log onto. America the lazy on your butts to sit on FB and they complain about Mc donalds.. facebook seriously... maybe to a teen this was worth the effort for you to give the "ticker" stalker a whirl.. wow. its all overkill and believe it or not its becoming a myspace,, less the HTML freedom of page design. nuff said this is getting old all the updated ticks and tricks.. back to life.
· · 22 , 18:21

Murat Korkmaz · Rotterdam, Netherlands
I don't know about you guys but didn't we had a timeline-feature already, just by simply scrolling down on your wall?! It looked indeed like an Apple keynote except Apple comes with new features that realy Wow's you. Apple are major-league players where they combine soft and hard-Tech on an astonishing level. Even the presentation was painfull to watch now and then and certainly not as smooth as Jobs's. And it's not an age-thing, just watch Jobs's presentation of the first Mac in '84 where you can see a young Jobs showing that much persuasion and passion for his product. This F8 thing is childsplay compared to Apple's keynote. The MobileWeb is the future, economically, as you have more possibilities to generate revenues. In MobileWeb, FB is just an App for crying out loud, it comes nowhere near what Apple or Google is doing. FB ...Devamını Gör
· · 22 , 22:00

Greg Morford
Well written article. Not sure I like the new changes yet, but the thing is,is its new, so we haven't seen it work this way so we don't know if we like it yet. A year from now we'll probably be wondering how we ever lived without it.
The biggest reservation I have is how much more in my "business " this will be. I may be old fashioned, but having everything just served up and shared makes me antsy. Especially with past privacy concerns. I would feel better if facebook gave its users a little more ownership of their data.. And made it easy to delete if they felt so inclined
· · 22 , 17:54

Mateusz Sienkan
I thought scrobbling was invented by Richard Jones in 2002 as Audioscrobbler (now Last.fm), not by Facebook in 2011. Am I wrong? Maybe I'm not seeing the big picture but, hey, from now we scrobble to Facebook 'cause it's popular so more friends will see what we are listening to. Well done Facebook, so innovative!
· · 22 , 17:56

Ryan Steyn · Fort Worth, Texas
This is definitely brilliant -especially the conclusion about how much work it takes to be social on Facebook. It definitely needs to be more automated. The only problem is they're going to have to all users to fine-tune what they get. I'm experiencing quite a lot of information overload lately.
· · 22 , 18:16

Laura McMaster · California State University, Fresno
But with more facebook users sharing every little thing they are doing, who is listening? With that kind of information overload (already a problem for most people on facebook) I'd be inclined to tune out of these auto-shares. When you passively post every single thing you listen to, why should I pay attention or take that as a recommendation? However, when you post a link to one specific song or video, I'm more likely to go check that out.
· · 22 , 19:34

Jonathan Guez · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Tags.com'da CEO
I think the timeline feature is very well done. However, I don't think this should be the default profile. Should be a feature (like the "See Friendship" feature).

(I enabled it through the developer trick posted on techcrunch.)
· · 22 , 18:38

Joshua Fisher
Ha! Zuk just out copied himself! The original "Timeline" circa 2007:

http://www.ryanimel.com/power-facebook-social-timeline

Thanks for the retread Zuk!
· · 22 , 19:11

Nirav Gorajia
Siegler doesn't annoy me very often, but when he does, it's with his ridiculous hyperbole.

It's like is previous comment months ago when he claimed Facebook was dominating Google in every way possible with the exception of search. Of course, he completely ignored maps, email, and video.
· · 22 , 19:36

Ngan Nguyen · Edmonds Community College'de Tutor
c00l! this is wat I have neem thinking after reading so many complaints about FB redesign. People forgot the old design a few days after they vowed to boycott the site. Eventually, they like the new design. And the timeline feature is great!
· · 22 , 19:11

Patrick Edward Neiler · Life Preceptor, LLC'da Vice President
It always amazes me to read people bashing Facebook, through the medium of... Facebook. They must get a real kick out of this irony over at Facebook HQ.
· · 22 , 19:05

Aleksey Korzun · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
I can't wait until AOL shows you the door. Most pointless blogger on TechCrunch.
· · 22 , 17:41

Niraj Rai
This article is far from real.The author has to say something like this stay cool.
· · 22 , 17:48

Nick Fleker Felker · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
So now Facebook is the new Apple? What happens when Facebook challenges Apple in the mobile arena?
· · 22 , 18:48

William Kwil · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Petersham TAFE
Does the author of this article work for Facebook?
· · 22 , 17:46

Rivard Shatkin · Toronto, Ontario
Great article! It looks like google is loosing the game :(
· · 22 , 19:01

Guy Saward · University of Hertfordshire'de çalışıyor
Network economics 101 - Facebook are trying to raise the cost of switching - "go to g+ and see how history and stuff you'll lose".
· · 23 , 07:33
Andrew Adashek · University of Wisconsin-Madison
I actually wanted to not like the new Facebook. I really did not want it to get too out in front, make sure they would have to stay on their toes and keep innovating. I like competition.

But I do like the new Facebook. A lot lot.

I think there is so much that other networks and companies can learn from this. FB has shown that you can avoid "innovators dilema" by putting out an even better product than your original one. This is absolutely the result of a passionate team that is dedicated to making the best product on the market, while still staying true to a longer term vision.

Cheers to FB on this one. Can't wait to see what is next.
· · 22 , 17:55

Si Vola
It's going to be great to see all the music that all my friends are listening to. And the books, and the games, and the movies, and the apps. Can't wait to see all that spam into my ticker or wherever will show up. That's the issue Facebook (and its users) might have. If well organized and not too spammy it will certainly be interesting. Will see!
· · 22 , 16:47

Nick Pendrell · Hurghada
Excellent article.

This really turns the FB/G+ battle on its head. Up until this week, G+ was the choice for geeks and techies while FB was for the 'mainstream'. Now, however, with so many FB users bitching about how complicated FB has become, I'm wondering how FB is going to introduce all these many changes without freaking out the less tech-savvy.

This could actually be G+'s main selling point - "we're the simple option".

Still, the G+ team must be freaking out after this. It shows that they really are a bus ride away from catching FB.
· · 22 , 18:33

Ross Donaldson · Gouna
G+ is for the lonely people who can't get any
· · 23 , 04:26

Jason Griewing
I love how everyone is amazed that they store personal data and sell it. amd trick you into thinking its something they have been wanting to add to the side of your page. Your all e slaves, you wonder why you only get SPAMail for things you like now more then ever.
· · 22 , 16:55

Jason Griewing
Wheres my "Go Fuck Yourself" Button
· · 22 , 16:56

Emilie Cole · LaunchSquad'da Account Manager
I don't mean this facetiously: But glad to read MG post that actually articulates the nuance, historical context, and true innovation taking place around a given piece of technology news.
· · 22 , 17:33

Rick Collamore · Google'de Advertising Partner - Content Provider - Publisher
Believe it or not, Google and Facebook can and will co-exist. Facebook is good for keeping in contact with friends. That's it. They're not the end-all-be-all of the Internet.
· · 22 , 17:33

Phillip Burch · American Airlines'te Android/Windows Phone/HTML5 Developer
Features are features. Scale is scale if Google implemented these same features and tied them into android and search, who wins?
· · 22 , 16:48

Michel Pinard · Seattle, Washington
Nice Wayne Gretzky quote "Apple skates to where the puck is going to be. Facebook is skating to where the puck is going to be."
· · 22 , 17:31

Christopher M Wilke
Apple and Facebook are going were the puck is going to be competitors are skating to were the puck is! Great take MG.
· · 22 , 16:50

Mike Stahl · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Folsom, California
OOh. I can watch a movie on fb, I can share music on fb. Who cares. I could do this before and I'm not sitting on fb all day. Can fb cradle deez nuts?
· · 22 , 17:11

Wendy Gatlin · Greensboro, North Carolina
FANTASTIC article! I'm really excited to see this evolution taking place. Embrace it. It's not going away.
· · 22 , 16:55

Mark Divitt
Another FB/Apple fanboy, yawn. Feel free to wke me up when something actually intesting happens.
· · 22 , 16:59

Leslie Modisett
Why don't you guys have a Facebook share button. What if I want to share your article but not "like" it?
· · 22 , 16:54

Leslie Modisett
and post to TC without it posting to my FB wall. People like options.
· · 22 , 16:59

Adam Briggs
You just caused me to rethink some of my initial reactions to today's launch.
· · 22 , 16:55

Nicusor Dumbrava · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
"It’s about NOT needing a share button"... and that's going to be a BIG challenge for the BIG G!
· · 22 , 17:26

Alex Johnson
I want the new facebook so bad. When is it supposed to roll out?
· · 22 , 16:52

Christian Scholz · COM.lounge'de Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
and I guess that feature is good for employers, too :-)
· · 22 , 16:46

Ricky Colter
I'm clicking the like button for your insight!
· · 22 , 16:42

Jeremy Shaw · Güney Kaliforniya Üniversitesi
ga dane... MG lvl'ed up. absolutely spot on.
· · 22 , 16:56

Jon Yang · Cisco Systems'te User Experience Designer
someone call the police cuz MG just killed it
· · 22 , 23:27

Tundey Akinsanya · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · George Mason
How's this different than beacon?
· · 22 , 17:35

Justin J Basch · Basch Solutions, LLC'da CEO and Founder
Great article. I agree 100%!
· · 22 , 16:50

Ahmed Al-Sudani
This time, Siegler, you nail it.
· · 22 , 16:51

David Abraham · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · DFMedia Studios'ta çalışıyor
Looks like myspace done right to me :)
· · 22 , 17:35

Michael Benson
Facebook+
· · 22 , 16:42
Brian Keith
"Skating to where the puck is going to be." -terrific metaphor, absolutely apropos. Should be really interesting to see how the SocNetWars will unfold. Overall, I think the evolution should be a really cool ride for us, the end users.
· · 22 , 17:26

Damien Moore · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
Just activated the New Timeline profile and I've noticed adding events like breaking a leg are all public by default!
Another case of opt out rather than opt in by Facebook.
· · 22 , 17:20

ダルセン テイス · Lier, Belgium
The desperation sounding through In this post is very Noticeable, strange that I Have 80% people on my friendslist that dont like the new convoluted interface, let alone the algorithm that now decides what shows up on top, horrible, plus my wife hates that certain peoples posts now show on top, shouldve stayed doimg what you were good at fb, a simple way to stay in touch!havev80%
· · 22 , 19:37

Moe Foster
The problem is going to be how to filter the increased noise. I'm not sure I want to see every single song my friends are listening to in my ticker.
· · 22 , 17:19

Ravi Sheth · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Garfield High School, Garfield, NJ
All of this is nice and sweet but let me know when they start making billions in profits like google.
· · 22 , 17:09

Jayson Barrons · Syrup
Maybe instead of facebook pulling an apple, facebook pulled a facebook.
· · 22 , 17:00

Steve Pons · Accolade Reaction Promotion Group'ta EVP National Accounts
Great article MG. Love the Gretzky reference... ;-)
· · 22 , 17:12

Jeff Durso · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · MIT
Facebook has once again taken social to a new level of "meh".
· · 22 , 17:36

Eric Anderson · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
This article is bang on: passive sharing is the future of social networking. Period.
· · 22 , 20:50

Mansal Denton · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Franklin CH
MG, you have to take all these new features that are being released rather rapidly and apply them to a non-TechCrunch reader point of view. Obviously most of us are technologically inclined and therefore can appreciate some of the new features on Facebook. I do have friends who hate it, though. The features are not intuitive enough for them and they hate needing to re-learn Facebook every few weeks or months. Heck, even I don't like it, but I can handle it.

That blatant "we know you don't like it, but we know what is best for you" attitude doesn't sit well with a lot of people and I think that's where you saw the initial flee to Google+. At least for a while.
· · 23 , 08:05

Aaron McElwee
Autonomous updating is so scary! Listen I love the internet, its tools, its capabilities. By me using Facebook I feel like I'm opting into a big brother system. Enabling all my contacts to see what I'm doing all the time. I realize at some level all activities are tracked, but I don't need this to be broadcast out to the public. Just think one day Facebook being able to track everything you do on the web. Just think if this system could analyze and predict your thoughts or even flag you as a concern to the authorities. Have you seen the new TV show Person of Interest. Just be careful!
· · 23 , 09:10

Allen Johnson
so how does this change the fact that I have 10 close friends and one of those friends has 500 acquaintances, which I do not know 499 of them. In the current model, I now have opened my close friend model to a mob. I don't want those 499 to know wtf I am about or what I am sharing. Nuf said. Fix the underlying people relationship controls as a priority. And if you have never been ID hacked you are naive thinking that timeline profiling in an easy to jack format is not an issue. What until web currency is associated to your activities and the value might be something worth stealing...
· · 23 , 10:27

Sam Records
An entirely opposite take on this http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/opinion/rushkoff-facebook-changes/index.html.
· · 23 , 09:47

Devon Nullz · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Shell Oil Company'da Bent over
Methinks you just got schooled by FB. Facebook just took credit for inventing the blog archive (aka Timeline) and last.fm scrobbling, and you're calling them product visionary geniuses over that?
· · 23 , 09:16

Samuel Wood
I foresee having to block lots more people on Facebook. Sorry, but I don't care what music you're listening to, or what you're cooking, or any of that other crap.

Breaking news: Facebook has re-invented "overshare"! Now all your friends can get pissed at you telling them about every little f-ing detail of your life!
· · 23 , 12:00

Devin Mitchell
Great... here comes the auto-generated spam...
· · 23 , 07:43

MaryJo MacPherson · Lockerz'de Director, Lockerz Advisory Board
Didn't Pat Diven's AddToAny invent the SHARE button?
· · 23 , 08:05

Elvin Jimenez · Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts
The only benefit of Facebook is that it is the most popular site at a time when worldwide internet use is skyrocketing. Only ten years ago AIM was the our social solution. 5 Years ago MySpace. 3 years ago and still today Facebook. With all these hideous new features they are rolling out, they will surely become the most revolutionary, over hyped failure of our times.
· · 23 , 13:50

Mindy Beaumont-Champollion · Lockheed Martin'de Systems analyst
I don't see the benefit of this to the user. If I already have a device that does all these things why would I be in Facebook to them? Facebook is just another app.
· · 23 , 11:34

Roman Tarnavski · UOW
Great writeup; simple and to the point.
· · 23 , 09:57

Ciarán Norris · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Dublin, Ireland
Nothing much to add other than that this is the best article you've written in a long, long time.
· · 23 , 12:27

Armen Chakmakjian · Intuit
as I said while watching zuck unravel timeline...Timeline is Evernote. time to sue.
· · 23 , 14:20

Agostinho Paulo Manhiça · Gelinhos da Hinat'ta Tha Boss
I'll have to use XXX websites on Incognito mode than... damn
· · 23 , 14:29

Ovetta Sampson · World Media Now'da Co-Founder
So true!
· · 23 , 10:02