Facebook: Fixing Things That Aren’t Broke

So, how mad are you about the newest and unnecessary Facebook update? Does it infuriate you or no? I’m on the bench here, I’m not sure how I feel at this point. I just know Facebook wasn’t broken 7 updates ago. So why are they’re suddenly changing everything? Only one person knows the answer to that question and that’s Mark Zuckerberg.

I just hope this guy knows what he’s doing. I must question the point of the “subscribe button” and the “top feeds” feature though. I find that the feed is slowly but surely turning into a nuisance for me. I feel uncomfortable looking at my news feed when I log in. It doesn’t even feel like Facebook any more. Another slight annoyance is the ‘Close Friends’, ‘Family’ and ‘Put your city here’ features. I can’t even cut the notifications off. I had to completely remove that feature from my side bar. I’m still getting many amounts of e-mails from the people on these lists.

So I have to ask this, why fix something that isn’t broke? If they’re going to keep changing things like this, why not let us choose how we want our feed to look? That wouldn’t hurt no one. Those who like the new features can have them and those who prefer the older versions of Facebook can have them. Facebook is no longer simple and those who are going to suffer are seniors who keep in contact with their family and friends and the less computer savvy people.

From the reviews I’m reading, not too many people are pleased with the new face of Facebook; especially those who use the mobile app. People are demanding, making petitions to return Facebook back to what it used to be. Although I’m sure their pleas and demands is going to fall on blind eyes, I can understand their frustration. It’s annoying going to bed to things being okay and waking up the next day and everything’s gone to shit. Excuse my language.

I haven’t seen such a large amount of people angry since Netflix changed how they do business. The internet is in an uproar about all these sudden changes without a survey or any comments or feedback from their users. If these cocky bastards did that more often, they wouldn’t be getting so much backlash from their users.

Soon as people get used to the last update, they turn around and make another update that people have to get used to all over again. Talk about a slap in the face. I know Mark don’t have to tell anyone how much he doesn’t care about what the smaller people think about his changes, his actions speak volumes.

As of now over 20,000 people have voiced their displeasure on Facebook’s page. It was supposed to be about friends not a top news story. How does Facebook know what I’m most interested in because so far it isn’t showing me what I want to see. -Angry user

I’m not a foreseer of the future but I think Google+, Twitter, Tumblr and other sites will be receiving new users by the boat loads if this keeps up. Facebook might go the way of Myspace.