Improving Facebook

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I know, I know. They said it couldn’t be done. Mark Zuckerberg hit upon a vein of genius when he created Facebook, and the pure, unadulterated social network has remained, golden and unchanged, for years.

Or at least that’s what the people currently posting on the website seem to want. It seems  with every interface change millions of irate users take to their statuses to crow how they “hate the Timeline” or that “the chats were so much better without knowing whether or not the person you’re chatting with is on a desktop or a mobile device.” And yet, somehow, they keep using the website. But now Facebook has added a feature that allows you to save posts for later, and it may well be that this change is something Facebook purists won’t mind.

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Zuckerberg considers his website to be a “social newspaper”, where you often will come across posted articles that are not always recent, but almost always are interesting. If, in your scrolling, you come across an interesting post from a friend, but you don’t have the time to read it just then, you can click a button that saves the link, picture, or other story to a list for later. This allows you to peruse it at your leisure, and makes the website even more like a newspaper.

The feature is still rolling out to all users, and hopefully won’t result in more status-fury.

What Sparks Our Fire: Facebook saw potential for improvement, to initiative to address a need, and created a solution. That’s an important part of a successful company.

What do you think needs improvement on Facebook?

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