paintedlady said:

Facebook's pointless upgrades piss me off too. It's like they are finding new ways to make it less user friendly.

Yeah!

imago said:

EXACTLY !!

Someone posted this a little while ago on FB...

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xLiberiangirl said:

I fucking hate it!!!!!

noimageatall said:

Someone posted this a little while ago on FB...

[Edited 9/21/11 14:20pm]

Both of those are hilarious! I just saw on my local news that Facebook is going to be making yet more changes to their website this week. What the exact changes are was not explained, but I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.

forget facebook, it's stupid Google adding the new +You button to its main page and thus moving Images to 3rd in line that's been annoying the shit out of me

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

Militant said:

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

I HATE IT!!!!!!! I swear, Facebook is driving people away with all of their assinine changes.

Hoo boy, that looks like a big ol' mess right there. Of course they're still in testing, but the more Facebook starts looking like MySpace, the more unhappy I'll become.

Facebook Fatigue here... I was curious at the beginning of joining, it's now getting boring: holiday pics, babies, "news", and "updates" (of what??!), more babies and holiday pics... and hundreds and hundreds of "friends" and friends of friends, and then changes, and more changes. It's all becoming a big blur for me...

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Militant said:

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

Dear God that looks awful. You're a facebook developer? Do you know who has the final say in the changes? Do they know that the changes suck ass? I might seriously deactivate my account if/when my profile looks like this..

ZombieKitten said:

We need to all log In to Facebook en masse and only type he exact opposite of what we mean from now on so our information is useless to marketing

As sarcastic as I am, that is basically what I do. Maybe that is why facebook makes such terrible suggestions to me all the time

Militant said:

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

Looks kinda like...Myspace!!!!!

NDRU said:

Militant said:

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

Looks kinda like...Myspace!!!!!

i'm thinking the same thing!

NDRU said:

Terrib3Towel said:

Militant said:

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

Dear God that looks awful. You're a facebook developer? Do you know who has the final say in the changes? Do they know that the changes suck ass? I might seriously deactivate my account if/when my profile looks like this..

Nah, I don't know who has the final say. I don't work for Facebook or anything like that, I'm just registered in their developer program because of some music web apps I had to work with a while back. I do know they are very, very committed to this new profile and the chance of them going back on it is 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% lol.

Essentially these new changes are to encourage people to spend more time on the site and for more activity updates to automatic and passive (ie if you're listening to music using a service like Spotify, it'll automatically update your profile with what you're listening to without you having to do anything), stuff like that.

I'm not the biggest fan of FB either to be honest, I understand what they're trying to do but I think that that most of the users will not like this. At least at first, then everyone will forget about it within a few months, which is what always happens. Personally I'd like everyone to leave facebook and join Google+

Terrib3Towel said:

Militant said:

If people got pissed off at the recent minor changes, they're gonna be up in arms when the complete profile overhaul called "Timelines" rolls out. I have early access as a developer, if you're not one you won't be able to see the new style profiles just yet or be able to upgrade your own, but this is what they look like:

Dear God that looks awful. You're a facebook developer? Do you know who has the final say in the changes? Do they know that the changes suck ass? I might seriously deactivate my account if/when my profile looks like this..

I feel the exact same way, and I'm sure others will too, when these "improvements" take effect.

kimrachell said:

NDRU said:

Looks kinda like...Myspace!!!!!

i'm thinking the same thing!

NDRU is right, it does look like Myspace. I wonder how many people will hate the changes so much that they deactivate their Facebook account? I might be one of them. These changes are not improvements to me at all, they're just making Facebook more and more confusing to navigate.

emile58 said:

emile58 said:

I love it!!! Fuckface.

i had to edit that part out and post it here..lol.. fuckface hahaha

Howard stern always says "Myface"

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I'm getting used to the new Facebook but I feel like I'm not getting all of my updates. That's the only gripe I have at this point in time.

looks like more changes are on the way....

You'll freak when you see the new Facebook

Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular tech-news blog. He writes occasional columns about social networking and tech for CNN.com.

(CNN) -- Facebook users, mark my words: You'll revolt when the site rolls out its new features in the coming weeks.

Facebook is about to completely change the way its profile pages look as part of the website's biggest redesign so far, and only a fraction of the website's 800 million users seem to have the slightest clue.

I'm not talking about the new real-time "Ticker" at the top right of your Facebook profile. I'm not even talking about the "Top Stories" that now appear at the top of your Facebook news feed -- those are tiny, insignificant changes compared to what's just around the corner.

But boy, did some people react badly to even those minuscule improvements. Among my Facebook friends, more than half said they disliked the changes and some threatened to quit. Of course, they did no such thing. How will they react when Facebook throws away the old profiles and replaces them with something completely new?

If you use Facebook, chances are you're unaware of the major changes that are slated to begin rolling out by the end of this month. Only geeks like me are obsessed enough to have watched Facebook's 90-minute announcement of the new profile pages last week. And an even smaller percentage of Facebook users have discovered, like I did, that you can enable the new "F... Timeline" profile page right now so you're prepared for the launch.

So what's the big change? Facebook will be switching profile pages, perhaps optionally at first, to a new format called "Facebook Timeline." I switched my profile over last week and boy was it a shock -- I immediately wanted to switch it back to the old format. I'm someone who thrives on trying new things, but this change was radical even for me. Yet I could find no way to switch my profile back, so I stuck with it for a few days.

I'm so glad I did: Facebook Timeline is the best change Facebook has ever made.

Here's what'll happen once the Timeline profiles are launched: Your Facebook profile will go from having one central column to two, with boxes of text, photos, videos and even maps of your favorite locations. Rather than just displaying your most recent activities, your profile will become a scrapbook documenting your entire life, all the way back to your birth. Facebook will become a record of your existence: All your memories, your victories and your defeats, your loves, your losses and everything in between.

You'll be shocked, as I was, when this change is made. Suddenly your life is laid out before you, the highs and lows somehow pinpointed by Facebook's algorithms. You'll wonder why the status update box is so tiny now, and where all your most recent updates went.

You'll add a big, new "Cover photo" to your page and waste a few hours preening your Timeline, choosing to feature your happiest memories, hide the inconsequential ones, and lingering awhile on the most bittersweet of moments. And you'll realize, as I did, that Facebook knows you better than you know yourself.

Through this process, you'll realize that Facebook Timeline is much more than a way to post the minutiae of your existence. While a typical social networking profile might highlight what you ate this morning, or what time you left for work, or where you had lunch, Facebook Timeline takes these thousands of seemingly inconsequential events, discards the irrelevant ones, finds the most emotive, the most visual, the most striking and emotionally touching moments and pulls them into sharp focus.

Much like our memories, Facebook Timeline understands that some moments have resonance that lasts through the years. It's a marvel of computer programming: An algorithm that comes eerily close to emulating human memory; perhaps the first algorithm to spark such a deep emotional response.

So yes, you will hate the new Facebook profile when it launches in the coming weeks. Then, like me, you'll realize that Facebook has unleashed something so remarkable that you didn't even recognize it at first: A meaningful social network. And like any other groundbreaking technology -- the PC, the smartphone, the iPad -- you'll wonder why life wasn't always this way, and how you got by without it.

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I like Facebook the way it is,but I gotta admit,I'm sorta intrigued/curious about the new changes that are coming our way

SoulAlive said:

the article

Okay, well, I guess I'm curious. It's nice to see that they have some sort of goal in mind, and that it's not just an arbitrary redesign. I might switch over right away, to get a look at it for myself...