Comments on: Facebook offers wide variety of third party options

by: Zeleni

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:32:42 +0000

Once they get the search working, this will be helpful for Greens to identify potential supporters. It may have been easy for Libertarians to find someone supporters labeled as libertarian, but Greens were Very Liberal, Liberal, Moderate, and Other. Impossible to determine a potential supporter with the old political affiliation options.

by: Mike C

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:36:35 +0000

The above method sounds like it would work well.

The way I changed mine to just “Socialist” as opposed to any particular party:

-Copied “Socialist” (or for most here they would try “Libertarian” of course) onto my clip board
-Quickly paste it into the field and click away, as it doesn’t have time to search for the various parties, thus it remains in the field as just “Socialist” and it can be saved that way.

Hopefully they just fix it to where you can type whatever you want, but in the mean time the above method and the one I just said should work

by: Chuck Moulton

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:42:28 +0000

I can do it, but it took a minute of fiddling.

I typed in something like “Libertarianz”, then deleted the z, then typed the z again, then right clicked in the box and clicked undo. That made it say “Libertarian” with no highlighted options, and I saved the changes without a problem.

I haven’t been able to search by political affiliation since the new “feature” though. I complained the day it was implemented. No response.

by: Nigel Watt

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:40:27 +0000

I’m now “Minarchist”.

by: paulie

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:32:31 +0000

:-(

Facebook keeps getting crappier.

by: Peter M.

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:41:33 +0000

Hmm, perhaps I should change mine to “Very Other”

by: Jeff Wartman

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:43 +0000

Steve—
I’m not sure. It actually took me a couple tries to get it to go back to “libertarian”. Initially after saving the changes to “Libertarian Party”, when I went back in to try to change it to “Libertarian”, it would revert to “Libertarian Party”. On the third try or so it allowed me to save it again as “Libertarian”.

It’s definately buggy—seems like everyone is having a different and strange experience…I guess we can see if it will work itself out, but I won’t be holding my breath

by: Alex Peak

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:37:43 +0000

It’s gone back to not-letting-me write simply “Libertarian.”

Ah, the wonderful world of Facebook. At least I still have the ‘Cancel’ button.

by: Stephen Gordon

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:21:06 +0000

I’ve got mine changed to “Very Libertarian” at the moment.

by: Peter M.

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:13 +0000

The fill-in box is like the religions box, so you can theoretically put in whatever you want. I do agree that it is somewhat strange that they restricted it to political parties as opposed to political theories or ideologies. Each category is about as broad, but what they did seems strange.

Either way though, the search function for “Political Views” still has yet to be updated. Currently, that will only still work with the original Very Liberal to Very Conservative plus Libertarian and Other options. So the upside that you did mention doesn’t really exist yet. Hopefully that will be fixed eventually, though.

by: Stephen Gordon

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:02:37 +0000

Alex—I’m getting Libertarian Party with or without the final “n”

by: Stephen Gordon

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:59:58 +0000

To be clear, I tried “—libertarian—”

Jeff, what are you doing that I’m not doing?

by: Alex Peak

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:58:47 +0000

Hmm.

Now I’m able to do that, too. How very odd, an hour ago I was unable.

Now, when I type in L-i-b-e-r-t-a-r-i-a, it lists the three parties. But when I type in the final letter, n, it tells me that there are “No matches found.”

Yours,
Alex Peak

by: Stephen Gordon

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:58:45 +0000

I just tried with IE, too. Can’t change mine back with Firefox or IE. Also tried—libertarian—but it defaulted to Libertarian Party.

by: Jeff Wartman

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:41:36 +0000

I was able to change the “political views” section on my facebook from “Libertarian” to “Libertarian Party” then back to “Libertarian”