New Facebook Layout
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Kelly Sutton in Facebook

The multitude of us college students woke up Wednesday morning and probably felt some growing pains. This should come as a surprise, because puberty is as much as history as the Spanish Civil War in 1937.

Facebook unveiled its most-drastic layout change yet, along with some cool new features. The layout is the first new completely different layout that I've seen; changes in the past have been additions, not reorganizations. More surprisingly--as far as I can tell--there haven't been groups upon groups created proclaiming, "We hate the new Facebook!" I guess it's because these drop-down lists are so damn cool.

The next thing of note, the "network profile," is exactly what users were dying for. It creates a profile for each network (city, school, high school). The best feature of the network profile is the upcoming events in the specified network. Talk about efficient consolidation. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if desperate student organizations start abusing this feature. Also, the discussion board and wall seems out of place and a little too public. Time will sort out these bumps.

How do you feel about the changes that your precious Facebook has implemented? Let us know in a comment. And read the official Facebook blog post.

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