If you’ve got a facebook account, chances are you’re part of the “MEMBERS WANT THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK!” group, or have voted “NO to the new facebook layout”. In short, the Twitter-like changes to the social networking site have been less than popular.
The guys over at Facebook haven’t been able to ignore all of the negative comments completely, and while they’re not going to revert back to the old site, they are going to make changes to show that they’re listening.
Just how well they’re listening remains to be seen though.
Some changes to the current “Twitterbook” include:
Live updating: Users will have the ability to turn on auto updating so they don’t have to refresh the page to see what’s new.
Photo tags: Facebook will add photos tagged with a person’s friends to their stream.
Applications: Users will have the ability to cut down on the application-related content that appears in streams.
Highlights: This section will update more frequently and show more content so it’ll be more like the old News Feed.
Requests: Friend requests and event invites will be moved to the top of the right-hand column so that people can actually find them.
Friends lists: Users will be able to create a new list of friends with which to filter their streams.
There is no specific timeframe outlined for these updates, though the photo tag update is due in the next few weeks.
Are these changes good enough or should Facebook just bite the bullet and go back to what worked? Leave us a comment and let us know.
6 thoughts on “User Complaints Prompt Facebook Changes”
Why did they change is again in the first place? I’d just got used to the old new facebook!
My biggest complaint is that I can’t find how to write a new note without clicking through a thousand pages. And all I get a status updates these days so I miss the fun stuff.
Not good overall. I wish social networking sites would stop trying to be the same as each other. Myspace for fifteen year old wannabe musicians, twitter for networking and busy people, and Facebook for staying in touch with your friends. Simple!
/rant
I agree that the home page is way too status-heavy when Facebook offers all of these other applications that you don’t get with Twitter. It makes no sense to copy a social networking site that has less functionality than yours!
Any website should work under the simple way of a maximum of 3 clicks to get anything, otherwise its pointless. They are a bunch of artistic psychophants, saying oooh look at this now, all it does is drive people away to other social networking sites.
Rule 1 in customer service never P1SS off your customers or else they will leave.
I don’t get why people complain so much.
Yes, it’s irritating to deal with change, but, in the end, we learn to use all the new features within a week or two.
And why do we think we should get a say in it?
We don’t decide how our phones work or how the news is read so why should this service be any different?
Well we do have some say in the way new gadgets and sites are presented to us- companies spend huge amounts on consumer research and surveys to try to find out what the public wants so they can give it to them. The ultimate call is still with the producing company though.
Facebook seem to have largely ignored what their market has been asking for, but you’re right in saying that we all still continue to use it and in the end, we get used to the changes that they’ve stuck with.
dont no if writing to the right people i was on facebook then i went to bed woke up next morning to find my account had been disconnected try to find out why but no answers i think its just to get your account details can enybody help me please