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Much Ado About Nothing: Facebook Changes Anger Some No Time to Discuss as Using Facebook Apps

You may have seen some status updates from some of your Facebook friends railing against the latest changes to Facebook. I believe I have seen them, but I have not paid too much attention to them as I have been busier with other things. I have even began seeing groups created with the intention of rolling back Facebook to the older design. I have been too busy addictively playing Facebook Apps to notice these groups or many of the changes made to Facebook.

I resisted moving to Facebook for years as I thought it was basically the same as MySpace except slightly hipper. Finally I relented since basically everyone I knew was using Facebook. Now a few months after I join Facebook people are complaining about how cool it used to be and how they hate all of the new changes. What I hate about Facebook is how addicting it has become.

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I got suckered into playing some of the Facebook App games, which seem relatively harmless at first until you slowly find yourself shirking all of the other responsibilities in your life to log onto play Mafia Wars or Gangster Battle, or for those of you who play games not Mafia based maybe Vampire Wars. Not only will you soon find yourself addicted to these silly games, you will feel a strong sense of self-loathing about it as you realize you are harassing your friends, relatives and anyone else you have ever met to join the game and be part of your team. The more players you have in most of these games the more powerful you become. You realize the slick marketing that is at work here and yet you are powerless to resist playing the games and trying to force this madness on your friends. They will inevitably hate you for doing it and they will then pass it on to someone else. It is a vicious cycle. Your friends who have no interest in playing these games, the smart ones, will hate you even more because you will pester them non-stop to join a game they have no intention of playing. Resistance is futile, you do not have to play the game just humor your obsessed app fiend friend and join the game.

Enough about those damn Facebook app games. We came here to talk about the Facebook redesign. I told you those games are distracting. Seriously though the new design is not that different from the old one. I am interested to further explore the changes to the Facebook Fan Pages. I recently created one for this site, but found it to be a waste of time for the most part. You cannot invite people to join your page. You have to setup an event on your main account inviting people to an event. Inevitably everyone signs up for the event and not the actual page, hopefully with the redesign there will be a better solution. I do have a Facebook Fan Page Badge on the sidebar to the right if you are interested in joining it. Although I have not explored the changes extensively so far I have not really found anything about the new design to warrant the negative attention it has received such as in the Facebook Redesign Poll Results. Ninety Five percent of the people polled said they hated the new redesign. So basically almost everyone hated the redesign. Some said it was too much like twitter according to the article about said poll results. I do not use Twitter so this does not affect me in any way. My plan is to wait another year or two to join Twitter when everyone and their grandma has a Twitter account. Then I will tell everyone how I was wrong all this time and how much I love Twitter only to be told how it used to be cool, but the new design is terrible.

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  • But I like the muuuuuuusic.
  • Understood I guess if you use it for the music MySpace is probably better. Still doesn't mean you can't use both though.
  • I have never used Facebook, and therefore am probably not well enough versed to comment, but something makes me think that I would second my friend Brooke F., who recently wrote a blog entry on the subject. "Facebook," it said, "I don't get it".

    But theoretically, why would people need more than one social networking site (which also begs the question, why would people need one social networking site)? Was Myspace not successful enough in helping you achieve total omnipresence among your friends, who you have pointed yourself to as "fun" and "carefree"? I don't know.
  • That was my initial thinking in sticking w/ MySpace instead of Facebook, but upon using Facebook I find it far superior to MySpace. I think people inevitably want to move away from something when it becomes mainstream and find the next trendy site. For example Twitter is now so widely used that members of Congress are tweeting during the Presidential Address before Congress. I would suggest you try Facebook. I think you will find it better than MySpace although it does have its own faults.
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