Like it or not, Facebook is changing…..again. But we already knew that because one thing that Facebook is good at is change.
Here are some of the changes you will see
• Your posts will now appear on a single wide column on the left as opposed to two columns.
• Tabs will appear under your cover image replacing the boxes there now.
• Following in Twitters footsteps your subscribers (not your friends list), the people who subscribe to your public updates will now called followers.
• Also following Twitters lead, your name will appear in white over the bottom of your cover photo. So make sure your picture isn’t white or it will be hard to read.
Facebook is not known to comment before a design change, and there has been no official word from the company however; according to the buzz on social media, the changes have started to appear in New Zealand.
So in the end we are going back before Timeline and adding a cover photo and a few ideas borrowed from twitter.
#Awesome!
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Change is good people react badly to it at first but it will only take time before everyone loves it again
We will complain until it hurts and then start using it again 😀
I for one am glad – I HATED it when they went to the “timeline”. Not sure who the focus group was but really …. 🙂
I think everyone hated timeline. It was only a matter of time.
I think Facebook is making the right move with this. Timeline was never widely adopted in its current format and the two column format often leaves too much white space on one side or the other. Its also more difficult to read and follow along chronologically.
While they’re on the subject of change though – maybe they should revisit their stance on personal posts only gaining 10% visibility without paid promotion.
That 10% reach is a joke. They gave us the power to connect, we built their system and then they took it away. 🙁
Thanks for this, I appreciate the update. I hate the timeline, so any changes away from that are preferred.
Hate + Timeline seem to go hand in hand.
Apparently people must have gotten used to FB again, or perhaps they just liked it to much. CHANGE TIME! This is the biggest news since their IPO.
There is an interesting concept floating around that they are mimicking a department store that purposefully changes the inventory around. They do this so that you and I will look at everywhere to find what we thus and at the same time stumbling across new items.
I often wonder why the changes are all necessary but maybe they know something we don’t know about human behaviour .. monkey see monkey do
We complain, we adapt, we live with the change, we get comfortable and then we do it all again. A vicious circle.