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.
Prior to September, 2006, Facebook was largely static. Students would update their profiles with their latest favorite bands, or change their relationship status after a bad breakup, or switch their profile picture to something a little more flattering. But no one would know about those changes unless they visited your page. The changes, in fact, weren’t even indicated as such. (I’m fairly confident that the yellow highlights on new information were only introduced later.) In order to glean what was new—literally, what was newsworthy—from a friend’s profile page, you would need to visit the page frequently enough to remember what used to be there. And visiting someone’s page frequently enough for that became affectionately known as “Facebook stalking.” You might admit to your friends that you were “Facebook stalking” your crush, but you would think long and hard before admitting to your crush that you were Facebook stalking him. It was a cloaked world. News still traveled fast, and still reached the people who mattered…as long as they were checking your Facebook profile regularly enough. But it was hard to acknowledge that newfound knowledge in any sort of meaningful way: to do so, to introduce its content to a conversation, would be to admit that you were a little too interested.
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Facebook, however, will not be turning on comments in the News Feed yet. Fast-growing Silicon Valley startup FriendFeed has gotten a lot of press lately for enabling new kinds of semi-private friend feed aggregation and conversation.
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