September 07, 2006
Facebook Petition?
Seeing how this negative news facebook change is spreading through the community and through the news, I was trying to think of ways of letting Facebook know exactly how unhappy users are. Unlike other services, in which you can stop your paid subscription, services like Facebook have a unique situation in where they can do whatever the heck they please without risk of losing subscription dollars.
However, by exposing a serious flaw in their system, I think we can effectively produce actions which will force facebook to take action.
Whenever an action is made on facebook, this action is immediately broadcast to all users within the networks of people involved. Therefore, if everyone against the facebook mini-feeds just posts 1-5 messages on their own walls or as notes, this will flood mini-feeds making them essentially useless.
In the numbers suggested yesterday there are more than 500,000 users that are against mini-feeds. If these 500,000 users post 5 messages, then this means at least 2.5 million messages will be broadcast. This would also probably reach nearly all of the facebook users.
We shall see how facebook responds.
Posted by Bryant at September 7, 2006 10:17 AM