Why is it so hard to react positively to change when we know for a fact that the web is an ever-changing environment?
For the last couple days we have opened our Facebook accounts to find out that the interface changed again to what has been commonly called the New Facebook. For the better? Well, I think so. Yes, certain things are not in the place where we were used to, but they were moved in strategic places. Like the top bar of navigation now including Friend Requests, Messages and Notification as well as the usual Home, Profile and Account (use to be settings). We must also respect that Facebook has a tonne of people ‘giving’ them information on a daily basis by simply using their accounts. That being said, we then can assume that most changes in the new Facebook are done with the proper reasoning (I hope I’m not giving them too much credit). I won’t go into detail on all the new stuff since that would make this a really long post and well, I’m not done checking it all out...
My personal favorite is the first menu on the left hand side of the page including news feed, messages, events, photos and friends. I find it easy to use and it doesn’t take up too much real estate on the page. If we click on either of the categories, the content that comes up in the middle of the page is organized! We finally see the Recent (previously named live news???) and Top news. The content is easy to choose and view. The Inbox is as simple as before which is good news. The Events is organized by events of the week, friend’s events and they also included the birthdays. This can be very useful to see which birthdays are coming up this month or the next...
The Photos, by default, display the last ones uploaded. We can view the same type organization with the friend statuses or videos which gives us some interesting ways to view what happened in the last days of our account without having to scroll down and down and down the news feed. Basically we can check each category and know with a quick glance what’s been going on. So let’s be honest, it’s been a week since I have the new Facebook and I already forgot what the old Facebook looked like!