New Facebook

Pete · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 17.29

So, I'm the first one to sneer at the "if I declare it not broken then you shan't alter any website in any way shape or form without consulting me first" types but I mean seriously? What the fuck is this meant to be? Have they gone out of their way to piss people off this time.

urgh.

shite

JK08 · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 17.40

Pete wrote:So, I'm the first one to sneer at the "if I declare it not broken then you shan't alter any website in any way shape or form without consulting me first" types but I mean seriously? What the fuck is this meant to be? Have they gone out of their way to piss people off this time.

urgh.

shite

Agreed, doing my head in!

Jamesypoo · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 17.46

I don't this is one where everybody will eventually think it's wonderful and forget about the old version, either.

woah · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 17.47

I can't quite fathom the idea behind it - why does it want to guess what I might like? If I like something I'll choose myself thankyou Facebook. I don't like that it's combined the chat and mail into one big useless lump as well recently (even though that happened a while back). It was fine as it was before..

Critique · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 18.02

I, too, hate this new Facebook. If I make a 'Smart List', anything that happens comes up as a Notification, and I don't actually see how you can keep up-to-date with what friends are doing, if the Newsfeed consists of 'top stories' and Farmville requests...

I don't know if I was the only one, but I liked viewing Status Updates on their own, without anything else inbetween?

wells · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 18.27

Presumably Facebook have made all these changes in a mad panic over the launch of Google+?

Gavin Scott · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 18.43

My pc won't boot right now, but my iPad is still using the last style. I just read someone posting that if you go to account settings and click UK language it will revert back to old style.

If true, it probably won't last long.

Can't imagine they're panicked about the woeful google offering, but you never know how "paper billionaires" think.

Have Facebook ever gone back on a design change due to people moaning?

all new Phil · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 18.48

I think they're just overcomplicating things and trying to change things that really don't need it.

Fucking Booooooo.

rob · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 18.50

Just tried to "unsubscribe" from someone's (my sister's) activity updates. The message popped up "You won't see activity updates from her again" and the minute I refresh, the activity update is still there and refuses to go away.

What a load of shite.

Jake · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 22.49

Facebook's f8 conference kicks off tomorrow, so I guess we'll hear some rationale then. Not impressed so far though, particularly with what they've done to the news feed (although I do like the larger pictures).

DVB Cornwall · Wed 21 Sep, 2011 23.13

Didn't like at first, now find it a significant step forward. The ticker is great. Clearly the intention is to merge the Twitter concept of following others who have no friend relationship into FB, which it does well. Changes to the News Feed were needed for this to come on stream so they've taken things forward into a more organised display.

The next stage announcements will be fascinating as I note the location feature has been re-introduced in a much more effective manner, this will enable local companies to get on board in a big way. Facebook will very much adopt a 'parish magazine' approach sooner rather than later.

Looks very exciting in my view.