Facebook users are outraged at the "bull" the social networking site has been pulling over the past week. As if the changes weren't stupid enough, they didn't even give a heads up to their users as to what to expect and when.
First they gave us the "Smart Lists". I still don't know what is so smart about them. Next came the "Subscribe" feature, which isn't bad. And finally, we have the improved News Feed, where you can now see your friends comments and "likes" of other people's statuses and pictures; statuses and pictures belonging to people with whom you are not even friends. Huh?
And apparently Facebook thinks they know us better than we know ourselves, because in addition to the News Feed having "Recent Stories" and "From Earlier", there's "This blue corner marks a story we think will be interesting to you." Oh do ye now?
Has anyone noticed the size of wall photos? They're like three times the size they used to be. Is that really necessary?
Hey Facebook, you know the old saying, "Leave well enough alone"? Well the consensus agrees. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I'm kinda annoyed by some of things too, but I'm taking a wait and see approach. FB does this (probably to annoy us and get everybody trending this on Twitter lol) and nobody is exactly jumping ship to MySpace or Google+. BTW, Sharon brought up a good point (something I hadn't thought of) in the pic size - GP has the large photos and its better for photographers who share their photos on Google+ and not on FB. We've gotten used to the design changes in the past, perhaps they are still working out the kinks of this one too (the Networked blogs thing pisses me off too, but hopefully that changes too)
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