Facebook, here’s an easy one: separate Friends from Fans
Recently I’ve been trying to encourage Facebook to reverse their trend of constantly degrading the FB user experience, and my method has been to try to get people to chime in and offer up user experience improvement suggestions.
Here’s an easy but crucial user experience improvement for Facebook to implement: separate out Friends from Fans in the right sidebar. Instead of only having “Suggestions,” use that for Fan pages, and then return “People You May Know” as a separate section underneath.
I’ve mocked it up in this graphic. I even put Fans above Friends, which isn’t as good for users (who care more about People than Pages), but I’m willing to compromise to help FB make money, which I believe is the reason they’re flailing around so much in the first place.
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Facebook Needs a User Experience Intervention
