On Tuesday January 24th Facebook announced the
timeline would soon be activated for all users. Some Facebook users have had
the timeline since they were given access to it in September
2011. Opinions surrounding Facebook’s
new layout are mixed. When Facebook changes their template it’s a social media
drama. Almost everytime half of your news feed is about people
complaining on the layout. I feel, we need to calm down and just go with the
flow. Facebook is free, everyone uses it and things change. It amuses me when I
am reading about everyone bitching about how they don’t know how to use it,
even though they figured out how to update their status, i think you understand it , its not rocket science, its Facebook. Facebook is one of those things that
can always change but their not losing their audience. The funny thing is when
you see someone complaining about Facebook but they’re ON Facebook. So it doesn’t
seem like its bothering them too much. The easiest thing to do would be to make
the layout optional, but then again not everything in life is optional. So
people its only Facebook, its not like it doesn’t exist anymore because we know
if that happens it would be a world crisis.
Great point Elaura. Why waste time complaining about a free social networking service. A great example of first world problems...and it is sad that so many jump on the bandwagon to have their voices heard.
ReplyDeleteAlso agree how ironic it is to complain about Facebook on Facebook. I just got the Timeline and I actually think it is pretty neat, especially if you watch the video and take the tour. It makes it pretty easy to navigate at that point.
Stop complaining and either use the service or don't.
I really agree with you here, Elaura. Facebook is a free site and it's inevitable that the creators are going to change it up every once and a while to try new things. The truth is, Facebook users are going to continue to feed their Facebook addiction, no matter what layout they use, and they will continue to complain too.
ReplyDeleteElaura your points are so true, and I agree with Megan and Amanada as well. What I'm curious to know is how changes affect other social networking sites. Twitter recently changed their layout and I wonder how the change affected the number of users.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I feel as if people are so used to Facebook that they may be using their layout to rate other social networking sites. For example, they may hate something on Google+ because its not the way they are used to, i.e. the way Facebook does it.