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Screenshots: Facebook design refreshment in the works

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9 pointsBorisBomega9 comments

This has to be the worst example of blurring out text that I can recall seeing.

It's quite an annoying thing. I received the screenshots blurred and all we can do to stop the names from being read is blur the blur even more - which makes it look even worse in some ways. The blur isn't necessary really anyway as it was just a nice gesture to the users in the screenshots. Hopefully we can get copies of the original shots later today to improve the quality of the article :).

"a nice gesture to the users"? I think those users would habe enjoyed the extra attention. More followers, credit, props and traffic? Just put my name in there from now on...

Haha, will remember to do so in the future :-).

I much prefer a black rectangle to blurring.

The "nice gesture" idea is way off. By default, you need to assume they haven't opted into any sort of promotion for facebook or for your site. Treat it like private information, since their comments should be assumed to be private. Since the comments are tied to an identity, all the more reason to keep it private.

I don't know; maybe you're friends with everyone in the screencaps and you are pretty sure they're okay with you reposting their comments and names publicly. ...but, for whatever reason, I wouldn't be down with that.

Blank that stuff out. You know the eye dropper tool? Make rectangles of a non-intrusive color, if you don't want to screw up the design.

Terrible blurring, terrible privacy, and with regard to the comment about leaving names in plain sight, terrible advice.

I don't see the point of having one extra step if I wan't to update my status. I'd leave it as it is if I would like to encourage people to update regularly (that is the point of FB). I am, however, looking forward to the "top content" feature as the right box (highlights) is useless for me (showing the same stuff I don't care about for days in a row)

Call me suspicious but I doubt these redesigns were done by Facebook, the author of the post is a 16 year old British guy and the screenshots look like they're taken from a 16 year old British guys profile rather than a designer working in Palo Alto...

Huh? The features that are explained in the article were made by Facebook and are being tested on a selected number of users. Facebook have also confirmed this at the end of the article. I simply wrote the article for The Next Wek and the user who informed us of the update (who the screenshots are taken by) is a sort of friend of mine ;).

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