{"id":590,"date":"2008-11-13T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindaverse.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2008-11-13T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T03:08:54","slug":"overlooked-feature-in-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked feature in Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the new site design launched nobody realized that Facebook added the &#8216;Top Friends&#8217; functionality:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/devdev\/3029018760\/\" title=\"Always Show These Friends by devinreams, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3022\/3029018760_ca4e13604b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"497\" alt=\"Always Show These Friends\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/06\/26\/did-facebook-shut-down-slides-top-friends-how-very-myspace-of-them\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/06\/26\/top-friends-disappear-facebook\/\">Mashable<\/a>, or anyone noticing this. But everyone was very quick to get upset when slide&#8217;s &#8216;Top Friends&#8217; app was taken down (it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10784_3-9977762-7.html\">legitimate security concern<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I hate this short-term-memory-loss-lynch-mob we like to call the internet. Uproar and knee jerk reactions over perfectly understandable non-issues. But no praise for the good anyone does. It seems the consensus is: &#8220;let&#8217;s move on to something else we can get upset about&#8221;. This is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/stories\/2008\/11\/10\/daily89.html\">Valleywag is dead<\/a>. Nobody likes complainers. Do something about it. On the other hand, this is the same pandering nature that network news channels commit every day. The same ones that &#8220;we&#8221; bloggers say we&#8217;re up against.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you&#8217;re still reading and waiting for the punch-line, here you go. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help.php?hq=friends\">Facebook help<\/a> page taken today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/devdev\/3029029930\/\" title=\"Facebook Friends cannot be edited by devinreams, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3290\/3029029930_3fe9c81906_o.png\" width=\"577\" height=\"183\" alt=\"Facebook Friends cannot be edited\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet is weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the new site design launched nobody realized that Facebook added the &#8216;Top Friends&#8217; functionality: I don&#8217;t see TechCrunch, Mashable, or anyone noticing this. But everyone was very quick to get upset when slide&#8217;s &#8216;Top Friends&#8217; app was taken down (it was a legitimate security concern). I hate this short-term-memory-loss-lynch-mob we like to call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[584,41,90,576,97],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-facebook","tag-feature","tag-social","tag-social-media","tag-top-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}