Comments on: Facebook discusses redesigning its redesign

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By: dino bravoo

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By: mattmcb

mattmcb — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:45:42 +0000

I like Facebook's homepage, but the best homepage I've ever seen so far is sthrt.com and it works with Facebook or any other website.

By: Unimpressed

Unimpressed — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:33:40 +0000

Here's the biggest issue, no one (outside the online media industry) joined Facebook to “stream” content or get streams of content. People joined FB to connect with friends. Regardless, of how “innovative” (and I totally disagress that it is innovative) people think this new “streaming” vision is, it still isn't WHY people use facebook. I use Twitter to see the random crap that people stream, I use FB to keep in touch with my friends. It seems a lot of people are finding FB less useful – see compete.com engagement metrics, all down since the redesign: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com/?... . Also, Twitter's growth is up, my added at least 20 connections on twitter as people got pissed at FB for the changes.

They got their current user base by being the best site for connecting with friends. Why not improve that?

Seems they are too ego driven by their failed attempt to buy Twitter. I see the same type of arrogant, greedy management decisions being made by Facebook today that were rampant in the financial industry. It is a failure in product management to completely ignore your users needs to focus on your own ridiculous vision. The current backtracking isn't enough, the sites is still much less USEFUL than this time last year.

Also, a digital media planner/buyer – they really need to improve their ad systems, because they do not prove an ROI. Their systems are in desperate need of upgrade for agency use (esp smaller agencies), but they ignore that revenue stream.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:57:38 +0000

The new fb stinks! Since nobody really likes it, less people are using it and connecting with one another. I know that I see alot less of my friends on it that before the change. Where are the birthdays? Why aren't new friends, comments on photos etc in the stream? And why did the live feed go away? Where are my groups? I'm all for updates and changes as long as they make sense. It seems like we have all lost more than we have gained…out with the new, bring back the old.

By: Saint

Saint — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:50:27 +0000

It should let us easily control what we broadcast as well.

By: JDS

JDS — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:39:47 +0000

Facebook has other major problems that don't make a good fit for business, they should fix that before they try to fix things that are not broken.

By: biff

biff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:11:00 +0000

I despise the new layout but, quite frankly, the thought of participating publicly in that goofy poll was far less appealing than simply putting up with the new inane structure.

I wonder how many others feel like myself… I suspect this would bring that 2M # up to levels that are far larger than the pro-change people would want to see.

By: Manos Matsakis

Manos Matsakis — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:30:53 +0000

Photo tagging (and all other things mentioned) are a nice step but we still need more info that were available before: New friendships (the best way to find new friends joining), photo comments (it is also important to see all comments in the stream), group & Page joining, event participation, application installs. The Highlights section is OK but it is also important to have the above in the stream. Especially new friendships and photo comments!

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:52 +0000

The thing is: 1) with over 200 million users, for every one that loathes something, there's going to be someone that loves it – for instance, I actually use the bottom navigation bar; and, 2) there are *always* going to be people who resist change because “we've always done it that way.” If we listened to them, we'd all be still connecting via Prodigy.

By: Andrew Ettinger

Andrew Ettinger — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:25:49 +0000

FB's new layout it bad for users and by extension bad for advertisers. Microblogging is part and parcel different than social networks. Do not confuse the two (though apparently FB has). Before the status updat was a small part of the UI, now it is almost the entire UI. Crazy lauout will decrease clicks, 3rd party application impressions and ultimately drive more advertisers away. FB make a U turn already!

By: DryerBuzz

DryerBuzz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:01 +0000

the search on the new face book became a lost cause. very hard to find events and groups which I prefer on my home page stream over the updates. I don't think FB'ers were ready for conversation to their updates. seemed to catch them off guard when someone would reply. I did like the expanded details in the blog and video posts.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:22:16 +0000

New Coke anyone?

By: tollie

tollie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:03:08 +0000

I do agree that there is some truth in the idea that companies who are bold and not afraid to go against their customers from time to time do end up pioneering some good ideas, however here’s how this is different:

This isn’t Ford or Apple. Facebook is not selling a product; it’s dealing in the exchange of *our* contributions, *our* data. Facebook doesn’t just make money from us – Facebook is ABOUT us.

If Facebook wants to abandon what we’re here for and try and be some player in this new microblogging Twitter market, then it should, at very least, retain the important address book/ yearbook functionality in a meaningful way rather than attempt to Steve Jobs’ianly force its will on us by telling us “You don’t really want to connect with old friends… you want to discover new ones in new ways,” – because that would be an incorrect assumption.

By: theharmonyguy

theharmonyguy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:55:48 +0000

I never expected them to revert to the old design either, but I was honestly surprised to see the response to criticisms.

From the blog post: “We have the eventual goal of building filters that summarize this activity so you can see a more condensed view of what's been going on.” I'm still not clear what they meant by that – isn't that exactly what the old News Feed was? And isn't it contradictory to a real-time feed?

Also interesting: “We're also thinking about ways of filtering out some of the Wall posts and content directed to specific people to focus more on posts shared with everyone.” So Facebook is finally moving from more private site for communicating with friends to a more public, FriendFeed/Twitter-like world of broadcasting to everyone. 'Twill be interesting to watch.