And another thing...

[rsc]

...that Facebook could do that I would approve of: Get rid of that stupid "N minutes ago" crap. Put a normal time stamp on the posts. For one thing, it would mean you wouldn't have to waste packets and cycles updating the time-lapses, and it would also mean that when I go to read my Facebook page and I vaguely remember that I last looked at it at around 4:00, I wouldn't then have to figure out how many hours ago that was.

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[jered]

I think those get computed client-side, so it's only wasting your cycles. Still, pretty silly, I agree.

[qnetter]

Sorry, but I don't think "It's 10:06 - this post came in at 7:47" is anywhere near as meaningful to me. I like them to do the time calculation for me.

If they would put a "last read x minutes ago" timestamp on, that would help you.

(But don't you simply recognize if you've read it or not, and stop going back when you see something familiar?)