Thursday, September 18, 2008

The New Facebook

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home

Why do the designers of sites for communication and reconnections always have to go in and change what has already been working so well for the people that uses their sites? Redesigning the face of facebook has created uproar in facebook participants worldwide. They took something that was uniform and user friendly and made it into myspace! The abstract version in place now makes me almost want to discontinue my use of their site due to having to fidget with different buttons and settings to find the old applications I liked so well on my old page.
So back to my question, why do they have to change something that is working? Did we ask for them to change it? Does it help bring more users on? And if it does, who’s paying to use the site so they need more users anyway? Was this change due to the encouragement from companies that do help fund the upkeep of the site? Or do they really just have nothing better to do than to play with new ideas and see how many of their users they can upset.
Evidently it was to help advertise for their providers better, however, I don’t feel its right. Couldn’t they put it to a vote? A lot of users are Americans and we like voting on things, and when the vote can take place online, it has been proven that we respond better and more people vote for things online than we do for presidential elections. I just want the old facebook back.

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