Let's face it the common man hates change. Not because they fear it (well, maybe) or don't understand it (well, maybe that too) but because it's generally uncomfortable & icky. So it came as no surprise to anyone that the public would pitch a bitch fit over the layout changes to facebook implemented by Mark Zuckerberg & Co. this week.
A recent survey taken of over 1,000 people conducted by Sodahead, the social voting-based site discovered 86% of Facebook users hit the dislike button (seriously, why isn't there one of those on Facebook yet??) to the new design changes announced by Zuckerberg at the Facebook F8 conference this week. Teens & women (haters) led the lynch party with approximately 90% of each group really not feeling the changes. Dudes & twenty-somethings came in second with about 80% not feeling the switch up.
Ironically the only group of folks that didn't mind the Facebook changes were IT workers. College students and Ballers (people that make over $100,00) didn't hate on the changes that much either. Upon hearing about the negative comments made about the changes which include a Twitter-like news ticker as well as profile design changes Mark Zuckerberg went on the defensive driving home the fact that the changes to Facebook had been tested by folks who both worked for Facebook & didn't have anything to do with Facebook at all. He did express also that community feedback was much appreciated & would be taken under consideration.
To appease the haters users do have the option of not applying the new version to their profile pages initially, but will eventually have to switch to the timeline layout so that all users are social networking on the same "page" so to speak. The Timeline profile mode is still being tested by Facebook designers and will be introduced to the mainstream profile modes gradually over time. So I guess if you're into change & progress you're ultimately a communist and should take that shit to Cuba. Oh well, so much for utopia. Props to International Business Times.
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