Facebook Adds CAPTCHA To Status Updates. Hurts My Feelings

As if Facebook already wasn’t the crowd favorite at the moment due to layout changes. After today, they really won’t be. I went on my Facebook this morning to post one of my usual stories, accompanied by a link. As soon as I did so, a Security Check popped up asking me to input a CAPTCHA code. Talk about the antithesis of copying Twitter, the popular micr0-blogging service wouldn’t dare ask me to verify whether or not I’m trying to spam their ecosystem, let alone my own personal network that I’ve been building for nearly 6 years. Is this what our relationship has come to Facebook? Does this mean that users syndicating their updates from Twitter to Facebook will now be blocked if accompanied bya URL? Our current poll shows users prefer the Old Facebook layout to the New one by 93%. I wonder what it will go to now?

Tim Wright

In reference to 93% preferring the old site:
With any change that has a learning curve, people are going to prefer the old version, I'd be interested to see those poll results after 3 months of using the new interface. I bet they change dramatically.

Jason Wilk

I agree about the learning curve. Personally I think the argument over the New vs. Old Facebook is a bunch of noise. Last time we did a poll when they changed Facebook to include the newsfeed, it was the same percentage; 93% favored the old facebook. Time went by, now they change Facebook again, same thing; 93% prefer the Old Facebook, which previously had the negative 93% vote. Whenever 175m people are involved in a change, people will rebutle.