Apr 14, 2009 3
Pagination Patterns and Losing Time in Facebook
Do you ever get on Facebook, planning only to update your status, check out a few groups, and instead find yourself stuck in there? I do. I lose track of time. It could because the content is so compelling; but I doubt that. I blame the pagination.
Go to a group in Facebook and have a look at the members list. In a group with 12,504 members you can only progress through the list with previous or next links.
Facebook Group Member list
Go to albums, or to a particular album. While the extent of content is revealed the total number of pages isn’t, not until you get to the very end.
Facebook Album Progressive Pagination
The approach to pagination differs at the Mayo Clinic, a medical information site. Conducting a search will reveal the total number of search results and the total number of search result pages. In a large search result list, this will hopefully prompt the user to narrow their search terms.
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