Facebook Redesign
We haven’t said much about the Facebook redesign and the other changes in functionality. In short, I don’t care for the redesign. I get Twitter and the need for people to broadcast inanities at all hours of the day (I know, Twitter can be used for much more than that). But I just don’t/didn’t use Facebook in that way. Seeing what an acquaintance ate for breakfast this morning simply doesn’t start my day off the right way. I forget where I saw it, but Facebook makes a very good CRM for your friends. Great way to keep up, see the major events in people’s lives, offer condolences when warranted. And I would be willing to stay on all day to occasionally stumble upon such info. But I always found the statuses to be the least compelling aspect of the site. Now they are the most prominent. I know that Facebook has introduced all sorts of filters to block unwanted Stream spam, but frankly, since they introduced the spam to me (unlike Twitter where I have done it to myself) I am a little pissed that I have to go create a whole bunch of filters – which will likely mean that I will eventually miss one of those big life events that I was using Facebook to stay abreast of in the first place.
I think it is great for Facebook to move fast and innovate – they have to in order to make sure they don’t get eclipsed by some other service just as they overtook MySpace. But as nature shows us, not every evolutionary change is a positive one. This one is bad.
I am not the only one who has reacted this way. The following sites had plenty to say:
Facebook Haters reach a million strong
Top 10 Missing features of facebook redesign
Facebook goof cripples controversial homepage poll
There were many, many more where those came from.
Tags: crap, Facebook, Facebook redesign