Social Desire

Written on April 1, 2008 – 7:03 pm | by Shana Albert |

In the past few days I’ve noticed a few changes on StumbleUpon. They aren’t huge changes, but changes none-the-less. These changes appear on your own StumbleUpon page. What is cool about these changes is that you have a choice. You can choose to keep things the same as they have been or change the way your Favorites page looks. And, deciding between keeping things like they once were or changing it to the new display depends whether you are more visual or not.

If you take a look on your Favorite Page on StumbleUpon and you have it set to the standard view it should look something like this:

Now, take a look at the right section of this page. You will notice a section that looks like this:

If you click on the link that says, "Show thumbnails" your Favorite page on StumbleUpon will now look something like this:

Pretty cool, huh?! But, it can be changed even more still. Visually, I like the way the above thumbnails looks on my favorites page. But, maybe for you this way is too wordy and you would like to see more Thumbnails. Not a problem. You will notice that there is a section that says, "Display: List Grid". It should look something like the following image:

Right now your StumbleUpon Favorite page is probably on the default display, List. Click on Grid to see the display change to list your favorites as a grid using Thumbnails. It will look something like this:

For example, when I stumbled the post, "Treating Your Blog as a Business: 8 Aspects to Consider" it lists the screen shot of the entire web page and It’s easier for me to look at the thumbnail and know it is a DailyBlogTips post. It probably has a screen shot of the entire web page because there is no other image on that post. However, when I stumbled Brent Csutoras‘ post, "Digg’s April Fools… The Joke is on You!" the thumbnail on my StumbleUpon favorites page is the image of Brent’s "digg-fools-buttons photo". This could make just the thumbnails display on my favorites page more difficult for me in the days to come to figure out what I stumbled without having the description there too.

I DIG that I have choices on how I would like to see my StumbleUpon Favorites. I love the way my Favorites look on one page. Visually, it looks awesome!! But, I’m not sure if this is the best way for me to keep my StumbleUpon favorites page. Again, it looks great!! But, it is hard for me to figure out what website it is by the Thumbnails. Some Thumbnails are easier to figure it out than others. Some of the Thumbnails are screen shots of the web page… making it easier for me to figure out what favorite it is. However, some of the thumbnails are images from the web page itself. Even though this too is cool it isn’t very easy for me to always figure out which StumbleUpon favorite I stumbled.

Bottom line…. I love that I have choices. Which display do I enjoy the most? The answer is, "I’m not sure, yet". For right now I’m toggling back and forth between different displays until I figure it out. So far, it appears that I’m leaning towards to the traditional basic original version of no thumbnails. But, that is probably because I’m not really good with sudden change and I need to work myself into it a bit. I’m usually a very visual person, so I’m guessing that eventually when I get more use to it I will be using the Display page with the Thumbnails in the List form.

What about you? What StumbleUpon Favorites Display are you using?

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