Hysterical times on the Facebook social site for students, where the Facebook blog has been swamped with complaints about a new feeds feature.
In Facebook's Giant Blunder, Scott Kidder writes: "Facebookers are not happy. There are dozens of groups bashing the feature, the largest of which has over 20,000 members -- in under 12 hours."
On the Facebook blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded with Calm down. Breathe. We hear you. But the text suggests he still needs beating with a clue stick.
Look, Mark, this was an incredibly arrogant thing to do. Turn it off now and make it an option.
Rishi Kaitan comments:
We all know that a big reason why social networks are big is because people enjoy seeing what's going on in other people's lives. But there's a big difference between looking and stalking. The News Feed feature turns social networking into social stalking and that's just creepy. I think Facebook really needs to re-evaluate how the system works.
Whether it's justified or not, being dubbed Stalkerbook is not going to help Facebook make many friends.
Update: There's a Wall Street Journal story, New Facebook Features Have Members in an Uproar.
