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Jordan Golson

Comments, comments everywhere -- Facebook adds comments to the News Feed

Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard06.25.2008
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Facebook is rolling out comments right in the News Feed that every user sees when they log in, according to the allfacebook blog.

According to an announcement posted on the Facebook Blog, users will be able to comment on almost anything in their mini-feed, including friendship announcements, relationship changes and status notifications.

Allfacebook thinks this is in response to FriendFeed, a new website that's become more popular among the more prodigious social network users like Robert Scoble. FriendFeed allows users to import activity data from a number of websites like Flickr and Digg in once place, while allowing users to comment on almost anything.

Facebook may have been inspired by Friendfeed, though I don't think FriendFeed deserves that much credit. This isn't a reaction to a competitive threat, so much as Facebook picking up ideas from everyone in sight. Also, users love leaving comments and this is a natural extension to the Facebook Wall and comments on photos.

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As if the mini-feed wasn't intrusive enough! Now people can freely comment on my status change?! Pretty creative, but I'm excited I can still update my privacy settings.


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