The New Facebook

Old Facebook

New Facebook

Facebook has recently redesigned their layout and this has upset many facebook users. Over 30 million of facebook’s users are force to switched to the new format. These 30 million user are force to change to the new facebook, but they prefer the old layout better as the simple, streamlined design of the homepage has now have been converted into a jumble of tabs, unwarranted advertisements causes displeasure or annoyance to users. Conversely facebook engineer Mark Slee believes that this changes are useful as pages becomes more lively and better organized once users are familiar with it.

The issue here that facebook is facing is that audience adoption towards the new layout, personalization and interactivity. The new introduction and adoption of the new layout will be more personal and interactive as users are given application such as “walls” and ‘graffiti” to express or write about things.

Based on my opinion, the audience acceptance here is really important, as we can’t expect everybody to except changes, even though new interfaces are aimed to provide better services but some might not try and accept especially if there are faults in it. Is not that changes are not good, but changes should not be made quickly but rather stage by stage so that people can adopt towards it step by step and this will avoid all problems and misunderstanding.

Reference

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