It’s Gonna Be OK People

Facebook says it will tweak its homepage in the coming weeks in direct response to user backlash over recent designs changes. The social network caved to customer feedback, since millions of users chimed in favoring the old Facebook 93%.
Chris Cox, Facebook Director of Product, posted a lengthy blog post Tuesday explaining features that are being looked into for reverting back to the previous design. The most changes will be seen in the users’ streams, which will finally get live updating and friend list filters. Thinks like pictures in the news stream will be fixed as they have been taking up more than 60% of the entire homepage on some circumstances.
“Redesigns are generally hard to manage, in part because change is always hard and in part because we may miss improvements that any individual user may like to see,” said Chris Cox in his blog post. This is a surprising change coming from Facebook, who decided to ignore user feedback when they changed the design this past September. The poll responses were identical, 93% preferred the previous Facebook when the design was changed. Now everyone loves it, go figure….