Nope, it was done plain out wrong. Anything that causes that much of your userbase to outright revolt is just plain and simply done wrong, whether it was a lack of communication or a lack of understanding about their needs.
It didn't help that it was (and still is sometimes) buggy: one of my friends had a breakup announcement appear from her, so she started getting all kinds of WTF TELL ME messages. But, well, she hadn't broken up, nor changed her profile.
From a watcher's perspective, I'm pretty sure there wasn't any filtering when it first debuted, either. Meaning that there was no way to filter out the boring stuff from the stuff you actually wanted to see. That reduced the utility of the feature to the people who might have otherwise liked it.
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Date: 2007-Mar-21, Wednesday 19:17 (UTC)It didn't help that it was (and still is sometimes) buggy: one of my friends had a breakup announcement appear from her, so she started getting all kinds of WTF TELL ME messages. But, well, she hadn't broken up, nor changed her profile.
From a watcher's perspective, I'm pretty sure there wasn't any filtering when it first debuted, either. Meaning that there was no way to filter out the boring stuff from the stuff you actually wanted to see. That reduced the utility of the feature to the people who might have otherwise liked it.
And, just like on LJ, not all "friends" are equal.