OPW — Sep 7 — Facebook added an RSS feed that informs members when their friends’ pages are updated, e.g. when they add new photos and join new groups. ~500,000 of Facebook’s 9 million users were peeved enough to petition the company to do away with the new feature. Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, thinks the protesters are reacting irrationally. "Nothing you do is being broadcast," he wrote. "Rather, it is being shared with people who care about what you do–your friends." But this ignores the reality of how members actually use the sites. Obviously, many users feel that quietly adding a new friend’s picture to a profile is different from announcing that they’ve added that picture.
Mark Brooks: Friendster sends out periodic notifications highlighting when my friends have added new pictures. That’s the main notification feature most users would want.
