Facebook Lite - Direct shot at twitter? (Full screenshot)

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by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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jasonlbaptiste4• 17 years ago

Just updated the post. The message is gone. Jumped the gun?

rjurney• 17 years ago

No. You did right, hell of a scoop. They just pulled it because its not ready.

jasonlbaptiste4• 17 years ago

Who says that there's no point to staying up until 3 am :-) ? At first I thought it was just for a limited group of people (I've been on FB since mid 04 + active user). All of a sudden it went away.

jasonlbaptiste4• 17 years ago

Oh and the best is the necessary Facebook user outlash:

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/fbliteo...

fallentimes• 17 years ago

"...OR HOWEVER U SPELL THE IDIOTS NAME"

Maybe Facebook Video is next; they already have the Youtubesque comments.

dannyr• 17 years ago

I think you're right. My guess is Lite may just display Status updates and condensed versions of photos and links - just like Twitter!

_cbsz• 17 years ago

and, perhaps more pertinently, Friendfeed?

zain• 17 years ago

Someone snapped a screenshot: http://i30.tinypic.com/2ni4mjt.jpg

jasonlbaptiste4• 17 years ago

good call. added that to the post. thank you.

zackham2• 17 years ago

Twitter's privacy settings involve a single checkbox at the bottom of the settings form, and scary ALL CAPS is used to tell you you won't be on the public timeline. Twitter indirectly discourages any information hiding.

Facebook puts privacy in your face from the start and you have such fine-grained control – most Facebook users have some degree of information hiding enabled.

I believe that culture of everything-is-public is what has fueled Twitter's growth, and is exactly why Facebook cannot compete directly with Twitter. Facebook is technically better in every way, but there is a cultural difference in the two communities that allows them to serve separate purposes even when Twitter's functionality is by all measures a subset of Facebook at this point.

dandelany2• 17 years ago

Being forced to share everything may result in a different culture, but it's really just a less nuanced method of communication than what facebook allows. Facebook lets you to communicate more precisely what you want to say and exactly who you want to say it to. Quite simply, it's a more useful tool for people, which is what technology is at its core.

Twitter will always be novel for introducing the short, sweet, live update to the world, but without expanding its featureset (which Facebook is, almost monthly), it will soon look like a toy.

madh2• 17 years ago

The private capability creates a lot of complexity for Facebook. While it's true that more granular communication controls creates a more useful tool, it does not mean the people can use the tool. For instance, right now I have Friend Requests from relatives a generation older than me. As someone who started using Facebook in college, I don't know whether to accept and start creating limited profiles or to just ignore them. I'm not interested in creating work for myself. Plus, what's the point of connecting if you're just going to hide everything? This privacy granularity is a problem Facebook really needs to figure out.

Being completely open from the get-go is part of the beauty of Twitter. They should definitely add some more features, but the shear simplicity is quite nice.

zackham2• 17 years ago

To clarify what I meant: Facebook is about communication with known people, and Twitter is about broadcasting. This difference is why celebrities, news orgs, political parties, bloggers, etc, use Twitter and not Facebook status updates.

Keyframe• 17 years ago

I always thought of twitter as facebook's natural extension - what happens next in the clash of the titans? Will facebook play catchup on twitter look/feel as a mode like this 'Lite' - and on the other hand will twitter spread out to search chasing google while google chases facebook? Interesting times.

blazamos• 17 years ago

The Facebook Lite newsfeed screenshot:

http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2-63...

From:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/12/facebook-lite-in-pictur...

TweedHeads• 17 years ago

Lets do the following exercise: on one side write down the people you follow on facebook, on the other side those you do on twitter and compare them.

Facebook: mom, brothers and sisters, and cousins, auntie delores, the dog, the hamster.

Twitter: peers, close friends.

No, they don't match, they don't compete.

zzcoop• 17 years ago

Actually, I get plenty of overlap on my FB and Twitter accounts.

ojeysang• 17 years ago

i like this...

Facebook Lite - Direct shot at twitter? (Full screenshot)

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