When Facebook first released the ‘new’ look, I had a play with it straight away. The first thing I noticed was the slow response, i.e. it took sometime to load my own profile from the home page. But as days went by, it improved.
The new layout does need getting used to but to me, the one thing that makes me prefer this new look than the old one is how tidier it looks. All the applications are now placed under one tab. This means that people are less likely to invite me to become a vampire or zombie, or send me stuff like Louis Vuitton bags (send me the real thing instead, dammit!). Don’t get me wrong, I do like the applications but there are just too many of them. For example, I want to keep track of all my friends’ birthdays and other events. I initially installed Social Calendar. But then one of my friends uses Birthday Calendar, which meant I had to ‘install’ that one, too! Way too many apps that I began then (with the old FB) to accept all the ‘invitations’ but I don’t show them on my profile.
I really don’t get why several users are asking for the old layout back. Is it simply because they can’t be bothered learning and getting used to the new one? I mean, what is it really that is fundamentally wrong with the new one?
I suppose the developers would have to listen to their users (good product management practice) but I hope that they would instead give the option whether to navigate using the new look or the old.
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