Associated Press | Facebook is redesigning its site yet again, this time to better emphasize applications, games and search.
The latest evolution continued Friday after Facebook started rolling the changes out late Thursday, the company’s sixth birthday. Links and items have moved around the home page as Facebook tries to streamline navigation and make games and apps stand out more.
The world’s largest online social network has continuously morphed its home page as it’s grown from a closed hub for college students to a Web and mobile destination for 400 million people worldwide.
Past changes have sparked protests from many users, though Facebook says it makes them to serve its audience better. Facebook says that it conducts months of testing and that many users request such changes.
With the latest redesign, links to friend requests, messages and comment notifications are no longer scattered around and now reside on the top of the page. The search box is more prominent, as is the site’s chat feature. Users can now see friends who are currently online without clicking on a link. This doesn’t include all friends, only the ones they communicate with often.
There are also new links on the left that take users to online dashboards where they can organize games and applications and find new ones by seeing what their friends use.
wow, this is news? really?
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Try to find the “log out” link. It’s hidden under Profile. This is FB’s way to make sure you’re always logged in to benefit their wonderful site!
Why a change again, will it bocome more complicated ?
The old design was great, why not simply leave it alone.
God willing this will be the last straw for old people and we can just have Facebook back.
I love how people always complain that “the old design was great” and then whine about it being changed every single time the site makes any design tweaks. These are, undoubtedly, the same people who complained about the previous change when it was made. And the one before that. And the one…
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You read it, which means that you clicked on it, which means that you thought it was worthy of your time. Why would you click on the Facebook article if you didn’t want to read it? I don’t see how you can complain about the “news” quality when you purposefully went to the article, unless you are one of those misanthropes who seeks out things to get angry about. Try relaxing.
If you didn’t think it was worth anyone’s time, why did you bother to read the article and then comment? Was there something misleading about the title?
Complain, complain, complain. The real shame is that the whiners have taken over every message board imaginable.
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