[lbo-talk] facebook issues?

Gar Lipow gar.lipow at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 21:13:13 PDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:33 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:07 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> Rebooting seems to have solved the problem. I didn't think of quitting/restarting Firefox. It was behaving the same way on Firefox as on Internet Explorer. This was all on WIndows XP.

One thing I *strongly* suggest for anyone on facebook. Install social fixer. http://socialfixer.com/ It works in all the major browsers other than explorer.

Among the things it can do: 1) Keep your newsfeed in chronological order instead of letting facebook choose what you see. Facebook has a setting for this, be keeps resetting it back to "Facebook orders posts by what it thinks you should seet" 2) Facebook by default adds a link to very comment you make to your wall. Social fixer can automatically delete those automatic posts. 3) If you hate timeline, it can undo a lot of the stuff that people who hate timeline find most annoying - including the mutli-column format. (Note this is installed in your browser, so it affect how you see stuff, not how anyone else sees stuff.) 4) In general it gives you a lot more control so of the way way facebook presents itself to you. You can leave anything you like in place, and alter much of what you don't like in terms of interface.

Honestly, Schmuckerman ought to kiss the sociafixer developer's ass or at least throw him some money, cause I'm pretty sure socialfixer is helping to retain users who would otherwise be driven away.


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> You did mention Facebook behavior. I've found that the Zynga Scrabble app seems to cause most of my recent reboots.
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