darkoshi | (no subject)

So there's 2 people I'm now following (is that the word?) on Facebook. I find Facebook very non-intuitive. It's one of the reasons I've tended to avoid it (besides privacy concerns). Is it just me?

A post I read yesterday is now above a bunch of other posts that were *not* yet there yesterday. Why is the post in that position now?

No dates and times listed, only "x" hours ago. (As bad as Youtube)

"Yesterday at 12:27am"... does that mean this morning, Feb 1, at 12:27am, or yesterday Jan 31, at 12:27am?

Why is the post for "Yesterday at 12:27am" above a post for "9 hours ago" ?
... wait a moment, the posts are *ALL* out of order. One from 9 hours ago, then one from 6 hours ago, then one from 7 hours ago... WTF???

Person X's comment on Person Y's photo, shows up on Person X's wall, and therefore on my News-Feed (is that the word)? Except you have to click the link to actually see the comment. And then it looks like the photo belongs to Person X instead of Person Y, since that page says "Person X's Wall". And yet if you try to view Person Y's Wall, you see nothing.

You go back 2 days, and then you get "There are no more posts to show right now". So if you don't read a post within 2 days, you're just out of luck?

Oh, and posts that make absolutely no sense, because the person is apparently commenting on something else that you don't see.

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That sounds like the privacy settings at work. You can choose to hide your activity on facebook (including wall posts) for anyone who you're not friends with.

And if you're only following 2 people and they're not particularly active on Facebook then if you go back a certain ways, you'll run out of active posts--not necessarily because you've hit 2 days, but because they haven't posted anything beyond that and in the archivable stretch of time that fbook keeps those posts in the feed. (Did that make sense?)

Yep, some things are probably privacy settings. I'm used to the LJ way... if you make something friends-only, and a friend comments on it, only your other friends can see the comment, not the friend's friends too.

Now I've figured out that only my wall/news-feed stops at 2 days ago. If I look directly on my friends' walls, it shows older posts.

Ah, and if I click the "Most Recent" link at the top of the page, then it puts the posts in order by date/time. The default "Top News" display puts them in an undefined order.

It's beginning to make more sense. :)