Social Networking

Facebook Adds Profile Pictures to Quick Search

Over the past few months, it seems Facebook has been making lots of minor changes to its Quick Search box in the top left of the site to make it easier to find your friends more quickly. So far I have loved the changes, especially since I can now see Group and Fan Page results in the dynamic search box as well. Not only do I spend less time pouring through search result pages, but I can now find people and groups by only searching for a few letters rather than worrying about name spellings.

This morning, I noticed that people’s profile pictures now show up right next to their names while you type, making it even easier to quickly visually ID your friends. That sounds a little crazy: "You don’t know their names but you know their picture?" But really, any visual element makes fast recognition a little bit easier.

I have not noticed this feature before and since I am on facebook for hours each day I am assuming that it is a new rollout. Now if only they would focus some development time on making their messaging system a million times more user-friendly.

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