Comments on: I Love The New Facebook

By: Ben Tao

Ben Tao — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:11:01 +0000

I think you are absolutely on the money. I always crack up when I hear people up-in-arms about something when facebook does something. They did that last time with the News Feed…people hated the News Feed and were demanding Facebook take it down. It’s like people have no long-term memories when it comes to this stuff. Bottom line is most people don’t like change…even when it’s for the better.

By: Cory Schop

Cory Schop — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:34:32 +0000

Sean you make great points and I agree with you! The highlights is useful but I find it takes up a bit too much page real estate. I think they could improve on this. One thing that you did forget to mention is the ability to now view your friends Facebook status updates on the homepage and filter by Friend lists. I think this is my favorite enhancement of all of them. It definitely is become more Twitterish, I guess that's what happens when Twitter turns your buyout offer down.

By: JT

JT — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:52:57 +0000

I don’t mind the twitterization of FB with highlighting the status feed. What i do miss is “7 of your friends are going to this event” or “stacy just uploaded pics or is now friends with sally” Instead half my feed is who took what quiz or other meaningless things which only rarely showed up in my feed before. A lot of fanboys (not saying you are one) counter with “but you can filter people out.” However i don’t want to filter people, I want to filter certain activities.

By: David - LA Marketing Firm

David - LA Marketing Firm — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:04:23 +0000

I don’t think the new facebook sucks, I just find that I have to search through a lot more places to find some of the things I wanted to find.

Creating a note is a bit harder, finding all of those apps navigation is harder.

Facebook just took twitter’s concept and popularized it to the world.

So while Facebook is definitely getting more interaction and usage from me and my friends, I’d have much preferred they kept facebook facebook, and not focused so much on the lifestream.

By: Tinu

Tinu — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:23:46 +0000

Marci Rosenblum just posted this on Facebook and I HAD to read it because I LOVE the new Facebook. I can’t get my ass off there anymore. And that’s as it should be.

By: MarciDesign

MarciDesign — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:22:39 +0000

I totally agree with you Sean, thanks for sharing your thoughts, findings and for posting this!

By: Katrina Gibson

Katrina Gibson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:05:16 +0000

I agree with all your points. I love the new layout and I love the fact that the are constantly trying to make it better. I think people in general just don’t like change so when they change the layout slightly it can be disconcerting to some. I however, love the improvements. I love that they changed the status bar to ask “what’s on your mind” instead of “what are you doing.” I could care less what someone is having for lunch but I’m interested to know what my contacts think about the new layout, the economy, or any news at all.

Thanks for the post!

By: Andrew Dobrow

Andrew Dobrow — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:03:01 +0000

Well, If you want to know who DOESN’T hate the new design, you can invite your friends here and join up yourself: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69032616319

Just a little group I started to combat the 4092739872 groups which are demanding the reinstatement of the boring old design.