RSSOld Facebook Completely Going Away Next Week: Turning Point for Facebook
September 24th, 2008
It’s now been nearly five months since we originally broke the news on the details of the Facebook redesign - and even longer since it was announced. Since Facebook’s initial announcements, the official launch of the redesign has been pushed back several times. Now, dozens of tweaks, thousands of developer questions, and millions of user complaints later, Facebook has just announced that all users will be moved to the new site and the old Facebook Platform APIs will no longer be supported starting “next week.”
The official launch marks a milestone in a long saga that has been a challenging one for Facebook to navigate to say the least. Facebook’s intentions for the redesign - simplifying the user experience, reducing clutter, and increasing the emphasis on feeds - are all ultimately good for Facebook, developers, and users. However, the specific ways it’s gone about implementing those changes have brought significant anxiety for developers whose livelihood depends on a feature-rich Facebook Platform, and concern from users who don’t warm up quickly to changes to the profile pages they spend countless hours manicuring.
On October 1 (or thereabout) “Facebook 3.1″ begins. The first Facebook was about profiles and friends. The second, News Feeds. The third, Platform applications. Now that Facebook has reorganized how the pieces fit together with the latest redesign, how will the ecosystem react? Will developers find sustainable success? Will users get more engaged or flock to more “cluttered” waters?
We’ll be tracking the changes in growth and engagement closely. It’s still early yet.
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September 25th, 2008 at 7:30 am
So… they are changing facebook for a third time now? They just changed it a week ago to the ‘new’ facebook, and I hate it… now I have to learn another one?! Does anyone know?
September 25th, 2008 at 11:30 am
This is ridiculous for several reasons:
1) No one requested that the site be redesigned
2) There has been plenty of negative and overwhelming feedback about the changes
3) Despite that they included a feedback option no one has responded to any of the majority of users dislike for the inefficient and unnecessary change in layout.
Evan
http://www.beyondrace.com
September 25th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
hey dats nice 2 hear ……..
i never had a prob. with d new fb
n learn’n another 1 would b quite interesting on ma side…
i’ll b wait’n 4 d 4th version of facebook.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
What I have realised with the new Facebook there is no privacy whatsoever, we can all read what someone wants to keep in a private conversation, also our profile is open to much, one never knows if there are scammers that can hack and create a profile using our details, that has already happened to me I had to delete my old account and recreate another which resulted in me losing friends. Someone else will come up with a site similar to Facebook and many of Facebook members will migrate there as they refuse to listen to the frustrations of their users. I have a Myspace account and we are not forced into accepting something that we are not familiar with. If they layout designers were trying out something why then force it upon us to accept. The new layout is not user friendly whatsoever, it constantly hangs, causes slow connection and I have to reboot all the time, I am just worried about my gigs being used up. So to the Facebook administrators save face and rather give us the users an option either to stay with the old or to accept the new.
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