[mejin]

While I completely support the goal of diaspora, I don't think that I can use it. one of the main benefits of Facebook is that I can look up someone's information / posts without them being informed. Imo that is what made Facebook so big in the first place.

[gaius]

Zuck et al probably realised very early on that casual stalking was a major use case. Not in a dangerous way, but maybe you wanted to find out a little more about that guy or girl before you asked them out, that sort of thing. They were all in college at the time after all. So he was careful not to include any feature that would inhibit this.

[sp332]

This is my biggest pet peeve about Facebook. I'd pay money for better analytics about my posts.

[freehunter]

I would love to see the same stats on my personal posts as I do on my page's post. How many people have seen it, the breakdown of their demographics, etc. The problem is, seeing those stats on a page (and a page that I pay FB to advertise for me) is really disheartening: the numbers are incredibly low even though I pay FB to show it to people. I'm sure the numbers are similarly low on my personal page as to how many of my 100+ friends actually saw my post come across their feed.

[sp332]

For me it's the sense of ownership that's missing. If I hosted it myself and just looked at data in the server logs - not even fancy javascript analytics - I'd get more information. Not having access reminds me that Facebook is using me to collect data on all my friends.

[freehunter]

I think that's going a little far... HN/Reddit doesn't give me server logs either. Very few web properties do. Very very few.

[sushid]

You can create a "Facebook Page" or convert your account to a Page instead.