The New Facebook

These petitions and groups about the new facebook amuse me. It reminds me about how everyone went crazy about the news-feed and mini-feed.

First of all, stop inviting me to these damn groups. I like the new facebook. I enjoy change.

Like every new thing it takes time to get used to. I've been using the new facebook since they started letting us use it and forgot that it was there was an old facebook. I just don't get all these complaints because most of them just seem like they are mad over stupid things like "justification" and "empty space" and "location changes".

This is why I LIKE the new facebook:

--Many things are more accessible. For example, I like the bar on the bottom with the applications, photos, groups, etc. I don't have to go to my home page just to get to those links. Also, I like all the little links placed everywhere like the "change profile picture" on the profile picture. It saves the trouble from having to go through multiple links to execute something. In general, everything is easier to get to and easier to find.

--I love tabs. I loved it when I saw them on Mozilla Firefox and I love it on facebook, and they're everywhere. Everything is categorized so that I can go exactly to where I want to go on a friend's page. I always hated having to wait for everyone's applications to load, or scrolling all the way down just to write on someone's wall. It feels cleaner.

--I like that you can make friends lists. I actually don't know if this wasn't here before, but I barely discovered it during the new facebook. But I like that I can check the status and updates of specific friends and if I want to consistently invite a group of people to an event, I don't have to make a formal facebook group. I can just use the friends lists.

--I'm happy finally allowed me to edit who can view my notes. Notes can be privatized for certain people and that way not all my notes are public on facebook.

--Like MySpace, I can choose who shows up on my friends short list. This way I don't have to individually type in each friend's name to get to their page. Instead, they are all grouped on my wall/info tab of my profile.

--I don't know if this was on the old facebook either, but I like that I can that if want to see more or less news topics from a certain friend.

--I can finally comment directly on a friend's status instead of writing on their wall. It's cool because now you know what that comment was related to when looking back, and you can start conversations about a status among multiple people.

--I think the new wall/mini-feed is interesting. I like that it's tabbed by all posts, post by me, and posts my others. But I remember before, I liked how I could look at only certain types of posts on the mini-feed. But it seems trivial now, haha.

--This was definitely here before, but I LOVE the mobile application. I wish I discovered it earlier. I ended up deleting a lot of my camera phone pictures because I didn't have space, but I could have uploaded them onto facebook, bah!

--The new facebook is even more Flash-enhanced. The thing I liked about facebook compared to MySpace was that it worked on Flash and it didn't have to reload all new pages every time you clicked on a new link. It is even more Flash, such as the new photos and video pages, all the tabs, etc.




Hahaha, I just felt like putting this out there. The new facebook is awesome. All I have to say to the haters is, be open-minded. If you still refuse, I'm interested on hearing what you have to say about the new facebook.