Facebook Faces The Fury, Twitter Coming Up Fast
Sabrina Cognata

After the recent backlash over the changes at Facebook people have been looking for the next big thing in social networking. That thing is Twitter.  It’s perfect for those laden with ADD tendencies as it provides to instantaneously update your status with the limitation of 140 characters.

However, after the general outcry  for change from the public, Facebook actually decided to admit their most recent changes were wrong.  Hooray guys!  Finally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted defeat over the terrible redesign of Facebook. Product director Chris Cox was forced to write an apology to the Facebook community at large cause, let’s face it, Zuckerberg was too awesome to do it himself.

Of the problems admitted in Cox’s apology there is:

• Add more control and relevance in the stream
  One of the great parts of Facebook is the ability to share and consume different types of content, such as photos, videos and notes, all in one place. We’ve heard from you that you want even more variety and control in your stream, and for it to update automatically.
• Live updating: One of the most common requests is the ability to see your stream update automatically. We will be adding the ability to turn on auto updating in the near future so you no longer need to refresh the page.
• Photo tags: In order to surface more photos you might like to see, we’ll be adding photos tagged of your friends to the stream. This will happen in the coming weeks.
• More choices for applications: We’ve heard feedback that there is a lot of application content appearing in the stream. We will be giving you tools to control and reduce application content that your friends share into your stream.
• Currently, the content filters on the left screen allow you to select the types of content you would like to see. Over time, we’ll continue to give you more control over what’s in your main stream and how you consume it. We have the eventual goal of building filters that summarize this activity so you can see a more condensed view of what’s been going on. We’re also thinking about ways of filtering out some of the Wall posts and content directed to specific people to focus more on posts shared with everyone.
• Right now, we’re making improvements to the Highlights section on the right-hand side of your home page. Highlights will update more frequently and will show you more content throughout the day to mirror more closely the content that the earlier News Feed provided.
• Find things more easily: It’s important that you are able to find everything you’re interested in, or we’re not succeeding in giving you the right level of control. We’re currently working on a few design changes to help you find these things more easily, such as:
• Moving requests to the top of the right column: Friend requests and event invites will be more prominent.
• Easier way to create a Friends List filter: From the filters on the left, you will be able to create a new list of friends with which to filter the stream.
• Application bookmarks continue to live in the toolbar at the bottom left of the page. You can quickly access your groups, events and other favorite applications from the bottom bar on any page.

Twitter is much less the mess and much more instantaneous.  In the case that you’re not that familiar with Twitter start up your own account and add Amp Radio!  Technologically, Twitter might be considered the new Facebook, but it isn’t.  It’s a completely different social networking system with a totally different feel.  The difference between Facebook and Twitter makes them both significant and in order to keep on top of the latest trends in technology Amp Radio is also on Facebook.  At this point who isn’t on Facebook?  Feel free to add us on both, to stay in the know, about everything going on at Amp Radio.