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Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

RMSe17 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:04 -0000

You got to be kidding me.. You liked the last design that was terrible, and dont like the current design that cleaned things up?
News feed and live feed were crap. Apps were crap too. They were turning a light weight person browser website into Myspace. Now it's a little better. But not quite.
I wish facebook would go back to allowing only .edu emails, keep all the scrubs out.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Cherie Cobb — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:38:43 -0000

AMEN!!!!!!! I hate how the entire comment is posted on the main page. It makes me think twice before posting something personal on what SHOULD be a friend's personal Wall! Good grief. It looks so cluttered to me!

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Cherie Cobb — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:32:17 -0000

I agree. I am NOT a fan. I've switched to Facebooking almost entirely from my phone b/c it still follows the old format. This is the first Facebook change I've minded, much less intensely disliked.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Alex Burgess — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:30:49 -0000

The thing I loved about facebook was its simplicity. It was so easy to see what was going on and what everyone else was doing unlike myspace etc. which are all about spending hellish amounts of time posting and reading. I feel like it's no longer as easy as it used to be, and a lot of the logic of facebook has been lost...

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Alex Burgess — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:26:16 -0000

The very thing I loved about facebook was its simplicity and ease to stay updated... Having that all in on play was very useful and now, well, it just sucks...

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Geoffrey Bernardo Van Wyk — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:27:26 -0000

I do not even feel like using it anymore, but, unfortunately, many of my friends have signed up recently, so I have to stay for their sakes.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Diana Tri Wulandari — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:08:34 -0000

well put.
the new changes made me feel conservative.
like the lots that so much want to resist changes but oh-so-could not.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Preeti — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:02 -0000

I have had Facebook for almost three years and been through every redesign process. Change is hard and some of the design iterations were not in my taste.

What I love about Facebook is the lifestreaming; seeing my friends who are all over world and see what they are doing. I also love the simplicity of Facebook.

Now I have to look at 7 (seven!) different places on the homepage to achieve almost nothing. I have apps in the lower left, chat windows and updates in the lower right, some crap column on the left, some status updates in the center, you get the picture...

I do not believe FB had a usability group whatsoever for the new redesign. I think our little 24 year friend Mark, has money, fame, and power in his bloodstream now and has left the users out to dry.

I would hate to blackout Facebook as being a long time user, but if they keep this crap up, there may be no other choice. Sad day indeed.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Braidwood — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:31:20 -0000

I'm with you. I don’t like the new facebook and its not a matter of not liking change or the new look. I don’t like the new look, but the reason I haven’t been on FB in a week is that the functionality has changed. It doesn’t provide the service it did before. Very sad, because it provided a very useful service to me before: the ability to casually socialize with people I know.

It used to have a block party feel. I could look at the home page and see what people were up to. Now it has a frenetic feel. I can look at the home page and see every single activity the friend who happens to be on right now has done. Its irritating and frenetic and no longer functional for socializing.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Antonia — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:04:47 -0000

People You May Know is still there - under the "Highlights"

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Antonia — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:23:34 -0000

Facebook has been around for about 5 years, so I guess this would be the time for an internet midlife crisis.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Marito — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:29 -0000

They won't change it because they did and archived just what they wanted.. But I HATE this new design. A big loss not to have the News Feed and Live feed anymore.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Brian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:20:04 -0000

Gotta say that while the concept of Actually Going to People's Profiles to Get New Information (gasp!) may seem daunting to some, for us longtime facebook users... well, that's the only way it used to be done. And I'd say that it possibly lead to more use, as people stalked about their friends pages trying to see what had changed.

Now, that said, the Real News Feed made that a lot easier, and I don't think that doing away with that was a very good decision. This post is very accurate in that, well, it just makes Facebook a lot less interesting and informative.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

John Hodgson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:13:24 -0000

I have to agree; and so do most of my contacts over there as they have mostly jumped ship in favour of Myspace, and today, I closed my account there in favour of myspace. I already have a twitter account, I don’t need another!

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Jeff — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:06:33 -0000

I am just now getting into facebook so I will never know what the "old" format was like!

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Christos Winter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:51:07 -0000

Ahh facebook... what would we do without you?

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

face what? — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:05:40 -0000

@ the pissed off majority...
count me in, lets show facebook we are serious!!!!hehe! 27th it is then! counting down now....

RIP Facebook!

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Your Name* — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:58:54 -0000

Birthdays! Bring them back.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

face what? — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:16:50 -0000

All good things have to come to an end...it just might be Facebook's time to fade into the night! See ya, facebook! it was good while it lasted!

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Alex Price — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:49 -0000

I agree, I loved the old FaceBook, it was more interesting and the page was a lot
freakin bigger. I can't even access the marketplace anymore and for the love of
God, everyone wants to post a video. It's not YouTube, it's FaceBook!

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Greg Stigall — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:45:42 -0000

I completely agree with you.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

KF — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:29:29 -0000

Completely agree!

New Facebook is New Coke.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

bman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:39:11 -0000

This is spot on, I dont go on facebook as much as before bc of this update.

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

pauljacobson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:27:12 -0000

I like the new design myself although it is a pain in the butt having to manually refresh the home page all the time. The disappearance of a live feed seems to be a common complaint, what is the chance we'll see some of this functionality return to the site in the near future?

Were these all intentional design choices the Facebook developers are intent on retaining or is this more a case that they are open to making further changes and upgrades if users want them?

Re: Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

Magus None — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:19:02 -0000

It seems like a lot of the complaints about the previous redesign was that facebook was too invasive to people. Now it sounds like the argument is that facebook isn't invasive enough. Where is the happy medium here?