I detest seeing friends' quiz notifications in my Facebook feed, so I block each quiz as I see it, have had to unfriend one friend who seemed to post nothing else, and continually post links to all my friends about how nefarious Facebook quizzes are. That helps all my smarter friends learn to spread the word to their friend networks about how uncool it is to take Facebook quizzes.
The latest concern is all those nasty ads on Facebook.
I hate the notifications, too, so I've set my feed to show status updates only by default. Occasionally, I'll switch to the links or notes view to see what's trickling around, since I usually miss these in news feed mode anyway.
After the last major redesign, I found and continue find the enhanced emphasis on graphics -- e.g. larger profile thumbnails and whatnot -- distracting; I find it isn't as easy to quickly scan the page.
I've idly thought a time or two of using a filter to block the thumbnail images. This thread made me think to try simply blocking all images. Result: A page much easier for me to scan. And while the quiz results are still there, their annoying graphics are not.
Mind you, I like seeing my friends published photos, and sometimes a friendly profile thumbnail cheers me up. But the rest is mostly visual busy-ness that slows me down.
As for the personal images in ad's, there's a way to effectively opt out of that, now. I believe it was mentioned here on HN. In Facebook, it's under
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I detest seeing friends' quiz notifications in my Facebook feed, so I block each quiz as I see it, have had to unfriend one friend who seemed to post nothing else, and continually post links to all my friends about how nefarious Facebook quizzes are. That helps all my smarter friends learn to spread the word to their friend networks about how uncool it is to take Facebook quizzes.
The latest concern is all those nasty ads on Facebook.
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/07/facebook-ad-endorsements/
I hate the notifications, too, so I've set my feed to show status updates only by default. Occasionally, I'll switch to the links or notes view to see what's trickling around, since I usually miss these in news feed mode anyway.
Perhaps I will try that.
After the last major redesign, I found and continue find the enhanced emphasis on graphics -- e.g. larger profile thumbnails and whatnot -- distracting; I find it isn't as easy to quickly scan the page.
I've idly thought a time or two of using a filter to block the thumbnail images. This thread made me think to try simply blocking all images. Result: A page much easier for me to scan. And while the quiz results are still there, their annoying graphics are not.
Mind you, I like seeing my friends published photos, and sometimes a friendly profile thumbnail cheers me up. But the rest is mostly visual busy-ness that slows me down.
As for the personal images in ad's, there's a way to effectively opt out of that, now. I believe it was mentioned here on HN. In Facebook, it's under
Settings / Privacy / News Feed and Wall / Facebook Ads
Set the value of Appearance in Facebook Ads to "No one".