Facebook Rolls Out New Homepage
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Facebook, Homepage, Twitter | Themes: The Internet
It’s been a day or so since Facebook launched its new homepage and we’re eager to know what you think.
Initially we were open to the idea but overnight, we’ve sort of found it all a bit tiresome. The new all-in-one homepage makes it hard for us to easily differentiate between status messages and wall posts. With everyone updating pictures and photos and changing their status messages as well as commenting on friends’ walls throughout the day, things get shifted to the bottom of the pile pretty quickly. To be fair, there’s usually not much to miss out on in the space of a day but it was something we noticed right off the bat and it was something we never had a problem with before. We’re not blind to Facebook’s intention of bringing you realtime updates all in one place, but this buffet style homepage is off putting.
While most of us are stuck with the new Facebook homepage, some of you have yet to be thrown in at the deep end. To you we say, be afraid. It’s not pretty. For those of you who have, let us know what you think. Are we being too quick to judge?
We’re still dealing with the support groups from the last layout change and the fact that the button that took you back to the old layout disappeared after a while. We also wait with baited breath for the “If we get a million members facebook will change back to the way it was” groups.
New design aside, we’ve heard on the grapevine that Facebook is going to be rolling out vanity URLs to anyone and everyone pretty soon, which will no doubt cause some headaches for those all fighting over the same URLs. While no one else on Facebook is registered as Jane McEntegart (there aren’t many folk with my second name which is why, I assume, a Jeff McEntegart has been sending me friend requests since I joined) we figure everyone else will be working on a first come, first served basis. Facebook used to only offers vanity URLs to bands and businesses but has been awarding a select few people (mostly actors and the like) with their own URLs.
So, thoughts on the new page and vanity URLs, go!
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that's funny... my fb page still says the new homepage is coming soon...
Still looks the same to me.
im not a fan, it isn't necessarily bad, but it really doesn't add anything new or exciting, just makes you relearn things. Very counter-productive.
I went on it 4 times and i didnt even notice. Lets make a big deal about our new homepage because we rearranged a couple things?
Mine just changed today, I don't like it, it seems too busy...like Tiger Direct's home page XD There's just too much stuff, not to mention the rounded the corners on every single photo on the menu? Not necessary and very annoying. And yeah, the wall posts/status and comments on them are hard to differentiate.
Didn't they change the layout of FB a while ago and now they are changing it again?
Talk about garbage. Who designed that monstrosity?
I'm suspicious of how they decide what "stories" show up in who's feeds. Plus, in order to see mobile uploads, you have to click on the photos filter. I definitely don't like that at all.
I'm suspicious of how they decide what "stories" show up in who's feeds. Plus, in order to see mobile uploads, you have to click on the photos filter. I definitely don't like that at all.
the guy's 17!
It's amazing he could arrange all that!
It was clearly designed by a 5-year-old -- no, I take that back...my daughter could design a better front end than they did. They took a LOT of functionality, customization, and filtering capability out of the home page (no more Live Feed, no more filtering capabilities in the News Feed with the exception of either an ALL or NOTHING setting for individual friends). They increased the font size as if we were either children or geriatrics, and cluttered the page up so much it's difficult to find anything. They added an advertisement box at the top where it's distracting, not helpful, and they added a "Highights" feature which isn't helpful to anyone. They've removed or made difficult to find events (birthdays, etc.), and the Feed doesn't auto-refresh anymore (Live Feed used to auto-refresh, so you didn't have to reload the page every time). Overall, it's a bunch of crap, and anyone who says differently doesn't know anything about GUIs.
it seems just like a temper tantrum. why? twitter is lame. useless. i loved fb for the ease of communication between friends and clients. now its just a cluttered mess. like twitter. bummer.
facebook for whatever reason feels that they need to try and fix things that aren't broken. Just as I finally start to settle in to the new (old now) homepage they rolled out not too long ago (which I actually kind of liked) they force this monstrosity on everyone. I miss the old minimalist facebook, no apps, no hard to use and understand GUI's just simple communication and photo sharing. I don't know when facebook will realize that people use it because they like and want facebook, not twitter or myspace.
Far too hard for me to see what my friends are doing. Unless they bring back the old interface, or give us a better interface than what we now have, I'm not going to use it any more.
I've been irritated by it. It looks like they redesigned it to be more like Twitter or Myspace, both of which never really endeared themselves to me. Chriss's point is an excellent one. It's now just a pain to figure out everything that happened during previous few days.
It sucks a twitter ripoff!!!
"I hate the new facebook page. If they don't change it back. I will tell my friends and we will leave together. Facebook is lame. Or at least give us the option to change it."
-Facebook users everywhere.
I hate the new Facebook Home Page. Here's a great blog about how bad it is:
http://matt-erof-fact.blogspot.com [...] sucks.html
Every one should email, call and bombard Facebook with complaints.
post here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=57407012130
send feedback here: http://www.facebook.com/help/conta [...] dback_home
send emails: info@facebook.com
call and leave a message: Phone: 650-543-4800
I hate it. You can't post photos to people pages. It doesn't say who's friend with who. I don't like it!!!
Not liking it all. All my friends and I prefer the old look. Not to mention when you post photos everyone can see them! It is annoying! Before you wold just get a notice that someone has added photos but everyone can SEE every single one of them! Not cool facebook, it sux!