Student outrage over the social networking site's redesign, including the News Feed and Mini Feed features,generated major news coverage--not to mention the still-surging Major Revolution. Campus papers quantified their rage with graphs , graphics , and extensive hyperbole. "An epic battle has begun," reported Boston University 's Daily Free Press .
Opinions vary about how to proceed. The University of Alabama's Crimson White called for a return to the old content-"so we can stalk privately-you know, the way stalking is supposed to be done." Columbia University's Bwog called for mass profile-deletion. And a discussion board called Auto Admit urged users take matters into their own hands, with their new program, "The Facebook News Feed Killer" . Meanwhile, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has not updated his blog --or his profile--since he reported at 5:56am Sept 5, that he was "feeling the increased information flow already." Wonder if "flow" is still the best word choice...
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