The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick

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Christy-- that group does not betray internal conflict at Facebook. It is facetious. Actually it's defensive because the fb staff don't always understand why so many people find the changes discomfiting. Inside the company there is little disagreement that the service needs to keep evolving quickly, to keep pace with competitors if nothing else. I... Read More do agree with Peter Gumbel that this new change should have been better promoted and foreshadowed. Maybe there should have been a big banner at the top of the home page explaining it. And Caye--if you have evidence that a large percent of fb's users are having performance problems please let us all know. fwiw, neither of the big blogs that cover fb news fulltime---Allfacebook.com and Insidefacebook.com--have observed that there are unusually large ongoing performance problems.

I absolutely love the update.

Ned-- there is a separate dialogue about Facebook performance problems on the Facebook Effect page. These appeared more serious a week or so ago but maybe they are merely migrating around to different groups of users. I never had regular performance problems until recently, though for the last few days everything has seemed fine.

I can't even send gifts to other players. I can't find gifts that have been sent to me. I hit on my home page and it takes a very long time if it shows at all. I have to use the refresh button on everything I try to do it seems. Or hit the post over and over before it will post. I can't get into my inbox and when I do which has been once in ... Read Morethe last 2 days, it freezes for a while then you attempt to post over and over. Or it will tell you that you must be signed in or logged in and you are logged in at this time...

One of the folks on my team has not been able to use FB well for about the lat month - he's located in LA - lots of no page loading, error messaging, etc.

let me know if you want to connect w him

I was reading in the New Yorker about Steve Jobs and Google. I wonder what Steve Jobs thinks about Facebook?

David, you're right. Matt done himself proud, and it's refreshing to see how Mark has overcome some of his stumbles.

Here's an FB effect, I scored a good job b/c of it and much much more. If that one friend didn't 'friend' me, I would not have my job, and other great social situations. Good luck with the book.

$522 that's astonishing. I know places where you could live for $522 a year. The only problem is that you would not likely survive in those places. Did you see the obit in the Times today about the death of the head of the dreaded Securitat in Ceaucescu's Romania. He managed to be exonerated for blowing up Radio Free Europe and lived out his days ... Read Morein the same villa tha he occupied during his reign of terror. He used to brag how he dragged a writer named Gloma around by his hair. I have always wanted to read Norman Manea who is a Romanian writer. Know him?