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by jedwhite • 16 years ago

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scottkrager• 16 years ago

I like it.

I still don't use facebook much anymore though. Doubt this will change that.

Swizec• 16 years ago

I don't really get it ... people actually use Facebook profiles?

Personally I almost never leave the home page ...

Frazzydee• 16 years ago

Perhaps this illustrates the need to revamp profiles.

jiganti2• 16 years ago

I was thinking about peoples' usage of facebook last week and wondered about how often people used the news feed as their go-to page, as opposed to their own profile. I'd contend that it would shed some light on the extent of peoples' narcissistic tendencies.

jiganti2• 16 years ago

I didn't know facebook was broken, so I'm skeptical about the fix. When people use a service for months or years and you change it, making them adapt to the new conditions (as minor as that adaptation might be), they better be able to recognize some concrete improvements to the new structure. This will motivate them to embrace the change.

It'll be interesting to see peoples' reactions to the overhaul.

rorymarinich• 16 years ago

People always hate the redesigns. Then, three months later, they revolt against the NEW redesigns because they love the current one so much. Facebook's kind of abusive like that.

They also usually cycle between adding new functionality, and then stripping down the designs to its essentials. This is more of an Essentialist design, which I like; I've been waiting for a redesign since their last one added all the weird things.

pbhjpbhj• 16 years ago

>I didn't know facebook was broken

IMO their photo support was very poor. Perhaps not broken but I'd "upgrade" to get better support for larger images where one can actually make out peoples faces in group photos, etc..

kylec• 16 years ago

Is there a way to revert to the old profile? I don't want to click "Get the New Profile" unless I can switch back if I want.

msmith• 16 years ago

Nope. In the FAQ, it says "You will not be able to switch back to the old design after upgrading."

dmvaldman• 16 years ago

Why oh why don't I read more carefully!

asnyder4• 16 years ago

I really hate the photo scroller. I would love to hide the whole object, not just individual photos. Every time you hide a photo it just fetches a new one. Really annoying.

Update: I had to press hide on several hundred photos for this to go away. Nice update.

Update2: There appear to be facebook partisans that think not having choice is a good thing? Really?

Lewisham• 16 years ago

Why do you hate it so much? People can just as easily get your photos from your Photos library instead. Is it simply an aesthetic complaint?

asnyder4• 16 years ago

The difference is as follows. The pictures that show aren't necessarily relevant to my life at this point in time. For example, I'm not very active on the picture front and many of the pictures that show are from several years ago. My girlfriend won't be that understanding when the picture on the home of my profile are with people from my past.

If it's in my photos the date and context are much clearer than they are on the main section of your profile.

tobtoh• 16 years ago

The first thing I did when I got my new profile was to check the settings to see if it publicly shared any info I didn't want it too ...

kevinpfab• 16 years ago

I like the change, it feels a bit more like a profile and less like a communication hub. The news feed is where I can find all the random chatter.

zone2• 16 years ago

how do i switch back to the old one? if you know pls.

Klonoar• 16 years ago

Am I the only one who, after upgrading, noticed that it stripped out all my previously filled in information relating to employer, etc? I suppose it's for the whole "projects" bit in work-related things, but last I checked we have these things called data migrations. At this point, leave the old info as defaults and let people enhance it.

I find it hilarious because, while I don't agree with half of Facebook's public/private settings, I also tend not to give a shit for my own personal reasons. Just sayin', you want all my info, I try to give it, you take it away...

The splash page for this also reeks of Apple-esque design. Perhaps this was done in other Facebook promotional pieces as well and I'm just now noticing it, but I wanted to point it out for the hell of it.

chrischen• 16 years ago

So this is why they took out application profile tabs...

treyp• 16 years ago

it was due to "low usage rates" according to http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/402

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