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Facebook gets a revamped look
SOME SOCIAL NETWORK USERS have been presented with a changed web page layout on Facebook, including a merged and separate live news feed.
In a sudden revamping the popular social networking web site has merged the 'top news' and 'most recent' news feeds into one. The top stories are highlighted with a blue marker and pictures are displayed in larger sizes in a new layout.
Another modification is that a news feed, known as the 'live ticker' has been added to the chat sidebar on the right hand side. This shows more up to date, in theory in real-time, posts but does seem to include duplicate news from the main feed. When you hover your mouse over a post you get a pop up preview window of whatever it might be. The sidebar can still be hidden like before.
If you're one of the users who has been given the change and doesn't like it, then it's possible to revert back to the old style. Simply go to your account settings and set the language to English (UK). This might only get you back to the old style temporarily, however.
Other alterations that are expected to be announced tomorrow at the Facebook conference included a remodeled profile page and tie-ins with media companies, according to the Daily Mail.
New buttons will be added in this section. These will be 'read', 'watched' and 'listened' buttons, with a possible 'want' button.
Facebook introduced these surprise changes only a day after Google+ was opened to everyone.
The reaction from users has not been very positive so far, with comments including "Facebook, please stop changing things," and, "I hate the new layout. I hate that you have turned what I see into a popularity contest." µ
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...since February 2004. Will keep it that way.
Keep in touch via more conventional means, or else don't keep in touch at all.
Also, I do not care for Google+. That blue arrow that points to the +You link on the top-left of the Google home page is VERY ANNOYING.
If only there was some technical means to allow the user to select their preferred presentation scheme...
If only... ;-)
Facebork programmers are some of the worst I've ever seen. Surpassed only by the infamous Suckmantec and MacAwful buggy root-kit vendors.
I've been dragged along by Facebook through two major revamps and numerous tweaks over the last two years and am exceedingly close to abandoning ship. I opened a Google+ account and if a sufficient number of my close friends appear there regularly, then its bye-bye Facebook.
Its not just the News Feed that's screwed up. I'm a photographer and artist and I've chafed already under Facebook/s very limited ability to hare my work, but I've adapted. The latest changes take all control from me with bots deciding which of my pictures appear on my wall, how they are cropped and in what order they are arranged. I imagine this will displease people simply trying to share snap shots as well, since there is no way to predict which part of the picture will be displayed. It might be chins and necks in one, calves and feet in a second and the odd crotch in the third. To make matters worse, a significant number of people have lost access to their photo albums. Everyone else can see them and comment on them but the person who created them. It's a glitch having to do with UI improvements we are told, but some people have been without for MONTHS, making it very difficult to add pictures to an existing album or otherwise edit it. Not impossible, but very difficult.
It seems Facebook doesn't really care what its users want. Its use of bots instead of humans to enforce "rules" leads to silliness, such as refusing to forward friend requests to one's own relatives for the reason that the bot has determined that the person is unknown to the requester, or disabling a users ability to use the "like" button because they use it "too much." Beside the fact that it's silly to think someone could use such a thing too much, there simply are no guidelines, merely vague threats and ominous warnings. All very Big Brother and Gestapo-like,
The only reason FaceBook is still sailing hinges on its 500 million users. At this point, its still a chicken or the egg scenario. People want to be where their friends are but their patience for being patronized, abused and taken for granted has limits. Once that tipping point is reached, I wouldn't give a plug nickel for F/B commercial valuation.
The revamped look is another example on how Facebook doesn't give a crap about its users and their desires!
The profile is a complete mess:
http://www.vectorash.ro/facebook-new-crap-profile-reloaded/
I've never been one to criticise Facebook changes. They've not really bothered me. This one however is a disaster. To the right it now looks like I'm in a room ful of people who won't shut up telling EVERY little thing they're doing, my news feed which was ALWAYS on most recent as I never found Facebook to be a good judge of what I found interesting is now stuck on 'what we think you'll find interesting' and is now going into partnership which such hate rags as the daily mail. Ive tried to cut down on the chatter but all it does is COMPLETELY silence your friends. It's probably the best thing that G+ could've hoped for. I'll be on there from now on.
Probably the best thing that could have happened for Google...
Goodbye Facebook, it's been a fun few years.