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The New Streamlined Look that Facebook will be Moving Everyone Over to

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I still haven't been moved over to Facebook's previous "new look". Not that I'm complaining, I just find it odd.

It seems like they are making the content part of it smaller and smaller, eventually everyones page will consist of a single huge picture, after which you can click through a couple of pages of ads to get to the timeline.

So if you use Facebook you can safely avoid Facebook for ~3 days after it's launched as every complains about it changing and then gets over it.

I don't think I've ever seen a service that gets as much grief for making (usually positive) UX changes. It's easy to joke about, but even tiny things get spotted and people seem pretty hostile to the change.

Because there's no try-out or restore available.

On a computer or a cellphone I mostly can stick with (or downgrade to) "old versions" of the software if I do not like the UI - just as happened with MS Vista and now with Win8, or the Office 2003-2007 UI remodeling.

On a website, the only hope users have is massive outcries and shitstorming, even though its known that Facebook never listens to its users.

That's just because the way to complain is built-in. Google can do whatever stupid thing they want to Gmail's UX with way less complaints - because what will you do, write an e-mail about it? :)

Also because the average Facebook user is not really computer literate, and such an user develops UI eidetic memory rather than functionality thinking - so moving a button leaves them clueless.

Oooh, is that some Google+ influence I see? Giant banner, 2 columns of various activities of the business/person. My only experience with Google+ is occasionally clicking on the pages Google generates for restaurants with no website but with user reviews, so there may be more I'm missing.

Here's the original from Facebook rather than this bizarre rewritten blogpost about it: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/A-Streamlined-Look-fo...

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