Sun 7 Sep 2008
Many sites are reporting user discontent over the forced introduction of New Facebook, with gearfuse describing it as horrible, atrocious and completely cluttered. Based the response to the discontinuation of network pages I’m not surprised. There’s even a “Petition Against the New Facebook” which currently has 478,670 1,050,119 members and can be signed here.
The new facebook profile design will be rolling out next week whether users like it or not, according to Facebook’s Program Manger Josh Elman who writes on the Facebook Developer Blog:
We’re nearing the time where we’ll switch over remaining users by default. We expect most of this to take place over the next week.
Some users are already getting a message that the change over is imminent when they log into their account, stating “New Facebook will soon be the only Facebook”.
The mere fact that a special Design Integration Guide exists suggests that at least some things will break when the changeover is complete (assuming it goes ahead). Only time will tell how smoothly the change over goes.
