After the redesign of the social networking website giant Facebook went live on the 14th of March, the entire blogosphere as well as the users went berserk. The initial reaction was totally negative, with forums and groups on facebook itself showing negative poll results. ( In a poll on a ” Hate the New Facebook Look” group, out of 800,000 members who participated in the poll, 94% gave a thumbs-down to the new design, and only 5% liked it) The new design is being termed as “Twitter-look-a-like”, and indeed with the new news stream on a users home page showing updates which is very much like Twitter’s own followers page, there are some similarities between the two. No one can deny that Facebook is certainly bothered by the phenomenon that Twitter is turning out to be. And certainly because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg failed to buy out Twitter, Facebook’s new mission seems to be undermining Twitter.
But now almost after a week, when the smoke has faded away and users have already got accustomed to the new look or redesign of Facebook, here’s some reason to cheer up. Here are 5 reasons why I like the new Facebook and possibly you could as well.
1. The News Feed can be filtered.
In the Home page, where we see the Twitter Like feed of the activities of the friend of a user, it displays all the activites of friends. This display can be filtered as well, based on Filters available, such as : Photos, Links, Videos etc. I have some more filters in my profile viz. YouTube, Twitter, Flixster, LivingSocial etc. If you have grouped your friends ( I have grouped them such as :-Social Network Contacts, University, School, Work etc.), then the NewsFeed could also display feed from only the members of those group.
2.Application on Bottom Bar
Very uncluttered look and organised. Only six of them are displayed, and the rest can be accessed by clicking on Applications. A sort of a drop down menu appears. This UI is much better than the previous version.
3. The Wall can be filtered as well
The Wall on the profile page can now be filtered to show posts by self and friends, just self, or just by friends.
4. Friend Activities in HighLights
New Groups joined by friends to New photo uploads can also be accessed from the Highlights on the Right Sidebar on the HomePage
5. Updates and Invitations are shown on the Home Page
All invitations and updates etc, are visible directly on the Homepage unlike the previous version, where the Right Sidebar showed 5 updates awaiting etc. Lesser links to click.
So, there you go, 5 reasons to like the new Facebook. Tell me, do you agree?
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I like the new Facebook as well but I feel that the home page design is a little messy. The old version of fb was really neat.
Google should do something about Orkut now!
P.S. This website is extremely handy! I’ll keep checking for your updates
Kool site. Nice template. This has advantage over OKS site is that white background loads first. And everything is readable instantly.
can you tell me how can i put apps in my left sidebar of fb? I wanna put my blog overthere. I am pretty new to fb..