Could this be a micro lesson for the rest of the technologically advanced world?
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December 15th, 2009
Things change so constantly, and so quickly in our world in this day an age. It’s not even limited to technology, but in simple policy and procedures too. The way it was supposed to be done yesterday isn’t the way it’s done today. (When was the last time you were ever sent to telephone prompts and didn’t hear “Please listen carefully because the prompts have changed.”) The frequency and suddenness of the changes just leaves people feeling off balance and frustrated, IMO. Also the changes often cause more problems than it fixes.
Both Wis.dm and AB crashed because of this very thing. Someone said, about AB, ”....but so many people were there for years (including myself) BECAUSE it was the way it was. In other words, they took a good thing and screwed it up in the name of “new and improved”.” and that is exactly what took wis.dm down. “Improving” and changing, and doing it all at once and destroying the site in the process.
http://www.fluther.com/disc/64489/what-actually-happened-over-at-answerbag/
Could this be any kind of lesson for us?
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Indeed! And I think, in this fish’s opinion, that Fluther has managed to avoid that by simply changing things very slowly.
I may be going against what people typically believe, but I think people are too scared of change as it is. We should not be scared. If a website changes for the negative it loses members, if it changes positively it gains members.
Same thing in technology. If a product changes the world in a positive way, it will succeed.
We shouldn’t be scared of change, because the people decide what stays and what goes. No one can force anything on us.
@jackm That’s a good answer….but….my thoughts are….can’t we just slow down a bit?
some times change is good but most of the time it has to be perfected before it can be good this is why slow is always better just like say
windows XP verse Windows Vista in my opinion a lot of the changes were good but it was just way to sudden it took time to be perfected and now we have windows 7 but if it was done right in the first place so many people wouldn’t have been effected so harshly and we could have just skipped vista and went for windows 7
sadly this is not how the world works
@jackm I agree, and sea changes are good and important for technology. But if I showed up for work tomorrow and my computer were replaced with a completely different input technology (that worked better!) I would probably hate it for a week while I got used to it.
Case: 6 months ago, I changed mice from a 2-button track ball that I had used for a decade to a 6-button laser mouse with a wheel. It SUCKED for about two weeks, but I needed the wheel for a specific program, and now I can’t live without it. If that had been foist upon me, rather than a deliberate choice, I probably would have resented it, instead of struggling through it.
Resisting change and promoting change need to strike a good balance. Human beings are change-resistant for a reason. But they are also curious for a reason.
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