Our goal for the group was to put some of our ideas in front of you, see what you think, and get feedback on ways to improve. You gave us that, and way more than we could ever imagine. There are thousands of discussion threads with your suggestions on how to improve the site. Some of them are fantastic, like adding search to discussion threads.

Other threads were, well, a little more creative. There are certain things that are core to your experience on Facebook. Networks are one. Being able to have all of your friends on Facebook is another. So, we won't be removing the network structure or kicking high school students off the site any time soon. That would be lame.

Many of you had really constructive feedback on the screenshots that we posted. We definitely heard you, and actually have made some modifications in response. There was an overwhelmingly positive response to the new Network pages. You noticed that we brought back some of the Pulse data, and you wanted more. Okay, done. When we roll out the Network pages, there will be an entire section dedicated to the network-specific statistics.

Some of you were worried about privacy. Even though our plan for Network pages takes into account all of the existing privacy rules, we thought we could be more obvious. We're going to add a "publicize" option to event and group creation pages, so that it's clear how to prevent these from showing up on Network pages.

Oh, and those collapsible boxes on your profile—we've been toying with different ways to improve the navigability of the profile page. Given your feedback, we decided to keep those around until we can come up with an even cooler way to manage your information. These are only a few examples of the great feedback you gave us based on the screenshots.

One last thing. I'm not sure why—but many of you are concerned that we might become less like Facebook and more like other sites on the web. I assure you all, we're not changing the goodness that is Facebook. We're continually innovating, and we're likely to use some of your ideas in the near future. So, stay tuned.


Katie, Facebook's Director of Product, had to fight a very strong urge to delete every thread that was all caps.