I just read that the Facebook redesign was presented to select media and bloggers (hey, what about some parent bloggers?). Here is a link to the screen shot, and liveblog details of the redesign meeting from the Inside Facebook blog. Mark Slee, Product Manager from Facebook, described the goal as the following:
Tabs and re-organizing the data related to how people communicate will be helpful for engaging more parents into Facebook – who are currently scared off by the multiple amounts of information that is thrown their way. I scaled down my Facebook profile to only allow feeds, walls and my links – some of the applications were overwhelming to keep track of. Even though I will miss out on some Good Karma or virtual cocktails – I am happy with just utilize Facebook as a way to network and keep up to date on my friend’s feeds and links.
Thanks Techmama, that is really interesting. I am always fielding questions on how to market on Facebook. Ill have to re-read the section you’d posted. I think there has been a lot of aggravation about not being able to send emails to your group once it surpasses 1000. I hope they take care of that soon. I, too have had to scale my profile b/c of all the e-mails from ‘Are you Interested’ and Compete etc. I love Rock You still, but i normally delete any apps that are sent my way.
Hey there, I am going to your workshop tonight and could not add you on Facebook
I guess you have some outlets for friends and then others for fans?
I would be honored to add my fans as friends!