Imagine you come home and someone nailed a note on a wooden plank on your door, informing you that there is a new part of the building and you must take a tour in order to remove the note. Your only option is to take the tour now, or be bugged again. That is what Facebook is doing. And it’s not the first time. User experience consultants commonly consider this breaking with user’s intention. So I wonder why Facebook has hired user experience experts, if they are told to ignore common user interaction patterns. Facebook’s “Graph Search” is a “user feature” on the surface, but it’s actually deeper data mining that serves Facebook’s business model, which is selling your data to advertisers. It seems that Facebook cannot trust its users to make their own decision whether they want to use this feature or not. In other words, it is not an offer. Not even a request. It is a mandate.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:52:06 +0000
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