Facebook.
Why?
No, seriously, why?
Do I even need to discuss it at this point? You’ve logged in by now. You’ve thrown up your hands in disgust. You’ve done a search on Google looking for blog posts to reinforce your view that, indeed, this is a terrible redesign, which is what brings you here. I know it’s almost to the point where we’ve been conditioned to freak out every time there’s a Facebook redesign. It’s expected. Then, we learn how to use everything, it starts becoming second nature, until the next time Mark Zuckerberg pulls the card with whatever the new design change is going to be out of the bingo roller of Facebook redesign and we all get angry again.
But this? Wow. This is bad. I have no idea where to look at my feed. I’m not even entirely sure where to begin to look at my feed. C’mon, people are idiots for the most part and you felt the need to hide the box to update your status? Was that really what was holding Facebook back, intuitiveness?
Zuckerberg, we get it, you felt threatened by the wider release of Google+, but did you have to panic that bad, randomly changing virtually every way we’ve learned how to read the feed? Does this mess even fit under Facebook’s patent anymore. Even more bizarre, this coming after changes that make complete and total sense. The subscription update was simplistic genius. Something that should have been put in place years ago, when the 5,000 friend limit and fan pages started to roll out. But this? Ye gods!
Twitter went down last night. I’m assuming it was from people complaining about Facebook. I refuse to use the term Facebookocalypse. I prefer Fäceböökämmerung. Conisder it trademarked.
I get a window that telsl me about the blue corner. It has an X in it so I am supposed to be able to close it, but the XZ is unclickable. The box is fixed over most of teh first 2 lines of the first post in my News Feed, so I can’t read it properly.
I resign myself to scrolling down to more readable posts, but – all of a sudden – the screen automatically boots me back up to the first post (the illegible one).
Meanwhile, over at simplistic Google Plus ….
I have so many issues with this. For one, I made a list of ‘Close Friends’ that is over 400 people long just so I can see my feed chronologically, and it’s still messed up. 2. Even after opting out of seeing likes, comments, and game updates, they’re still in my feed. 3. The all or nothing format is so stupid! Of course I want to see when my friends comment on each other’s stuff. I do NOT want to see when they comment on strangers’ stuff. But there is no way to block only the annoying stuff from the feed, so FB is essentially saying “eat this, or render your feed pointless”. I’ve opted to render mine useless for now because my knee-jerk is towards privacy. Seriously – if I wanted Twitter or G+, that’s where I’d be.
Dani, what you may want to do is use a mobile client on your phone. My TouchPad has an app called Incredible! where things look normal.