Friday, March 27, 2009

Facebook Caves to User Gripes Over Redesign

Facebook responds to users who don't like a recent redesign to its home page and will reverse some changes in the next couple of weeks.

Facebook says it will tweak its home page in the coming weeks in direct response to user uproar over recent designs changes. The social network caved to customer feedback against the site's recent improvements and says it decided to listen to the millions asking for less change.

Chris Cox, Facebook director of product, posted March 24 on the Facebook Blog a lengthy explanation of the features the social network is going to look into tweaking after the colossal user feedback. The most changes will be seen in the users' streams, which will finally get live updating and friend-list filters.
"Redesigns are generally hard to manage, in part because change is always hard and in part because we may miss improvements that any individual user may like to see," said Cox in his blog post. This week, change was hard on almost 2 million Facebook users, who joined petition groups campaigning against the site's latest improvements.

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