More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world. The group is pleading with the social network to “make small changes and make the transition easier to deal with.”
Facebook has redesigned its layout (second time in a year), in order to better compete with upcoming popular real-time microblogging service Twitter. But with the transition to the new interface complete, Facebook has fallen under heavy criticism this weekend for not listening to the wishes of its users, who vehemently protested against the change to the new layout. Also making its pages more advertiser friendly.
Opponents of the new design say it clutters their home page with updates from people they don’t care about, while also limiting the number of features available to users.
Facebook has acknowledged the criticism, but so far has declined to take any action.
“The new Facebook home page is one step in the continued evolution of the site, designed to give people more ways to share and filter all types of content, such as status updates, photos, videos, notes and more,” the company said in a statement.
“We are listening carefully to what people are saying about the new home page through a variety of channels and are committed to using it to inform how we build and improve the site for everyone.”
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It’s not the design we hate.
It’s the loss of personalization features and filtering control.
If people take time to read through the comments in the Ne Facebook Layout survey and look through the FAQ comments in the Help section, you’ll find just this.
The horrid Highlights section is especially hated,redundant, forced, USELESS and should never have taken up all the space of birthdays and events at a glance.
And they KNOW this. I just noticed this morning they put some of the event/birthday info back up top in now-collapsable form.
At best, a decent compromise that show someone’s listening - FINALLY.
We’ll see how far that goes.