Facebook Virus – Suspicious Activity Log
I think I’ve been hit by the latest lame Facebook virus-like application! It’s called suspicious activity log, and it’s designed to trick people into approving it by sending an official-looking message to as many friends as it can indicating that their “profiles have been reported as terms of service (tos) violations.” Here’s a screenie of the notification it posted to me:
I went to the application page, and this is what I got:
The Facebook “friend” who was stupid enough to install this piece of crap malware is no longer my Facebook “friend.” Fortunately, I’ve never met him in real life, so the pain to my heart is minimal!
Facebook Error Sending Messages
I’ve been getting this error trying to send a message to friends on Facebook:
HTTP Error
Transport error (#302) while retrieving data from endpoint `/inbox/ajax/ajax.php’: Unknown HTTP error #302
Weird, I wonder what’s the problem.
New Facebook Design Preview
If you hurry over to new.facebook.com you can see a Beta version of their new design (Pulse says they took it down, but they haven’t for me). It’s interesting, because while it’s definitely going in the right direction, it’s nowhere near complete or solid. It is unusual for a company to publicly “try out” their design work, but Facebook is the first of a new breed. Anyway, here’s my take on things, starting with the new “home page”, your wall:
The new wall page, the first page you see when logging in
- The new “All Posts / Wall Posts / Posts by Me” filters are nice.
- Only three posted items in the right bar? It should have at least 10.
- Posted items have a thumbnail and text; without the text, they are mostly blank space.
- There is a ton of blank space between the footer and chat bar!
The new info profile page, tells you about you
- The edit information button renders wrong.
- The “fan pages” have too much blank space with the vertical layout!
The photos page has the best layout
- The photos page is perfect, the spacing is great. There’s little wasted space here!
Note also that on a wide monitor, there is just a huge amount of blank space to the sides of each page. Also, Mashable has their own “New Facebook” review; they conclude stuff isn’t “working as I’d expect.”
