As everyone may have already noticed, last night Facebook rolled out some pretty drastic changes to the way that home pages both looks and operates. Whether this was prompted by the recent nes that Google+ is now open to the general public or not, you've gotta wonder what is going through the heads of those making the decisions over at Facebook.
The two main changes are in how the News Feed acts, and the new friends activity ticker that can be found on the upper righthand side of the page. In terms of the News Feed, now instead of being able to view items through tabs labeled "Top News" and "Most Recent" it's all jumbled together in an overall messy and confusing manner. Then there is the friends activity ticker, which while it is a pretty interesting idea, overall strikes me as pointless and superfluous. I honestly don't care about and don't want to see these updates, and the fact that it scrolls with the page to constantly keep itself within your view increases the aggravation as well.
Facebook honestly seems to be shooting itself in the foot. They're frustrating many of it's users with these updates, me included, and creating further temptation to make the jump over to G+. Facebook seems to be headed towards a decline much like MySpace in the face of this new competition by G+, scrambling to come up with and release half-baked and poorly thought out new features in an attempt to say "Hey! Stick with me!".
What are your thoughts?
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