Won’t be jumping to Google+ (plus what?) anytime soon. Sure I could get used to the changes. But I think they were too much all at the same time. It is true that anytime Facebook changes stuff, you’re going to get some complaining. But with this particular set of changes, the complaining seems to be both more vehement and universal. Friends that have, in the past, complained once and let it go are continuing to complain, and friends that almost never comment on Facebook changes are suddenly speaking up.

I could live with most of the changes, but that ticker has to go. There are plenty of thing to keep people occupied, I see no need for yet another distraction. Even the best of us multitaskers have our limits. I really don’t need to know that my friends are commenting on posts by people that I neither know nor particularly are interested in knowing. I’m more than adequately occupied with my own direct interactions with said friends. Simply put, I don’t give a flying figwort.

Newsflash for Facebook, and any other social media companies: If you want your site to be Social, it works better if you don’t alienate you users with the changes you make. Sure, there aren’t a lot of alternatives at the moment, but this is exactly the kind of behavior that will cause alternatives to be developed. Protecting your market share means treating those people who constitute with at least a modicum of respect. That’s really the best way to keep that ever-precious market share.

Hate it. Hate the ticker that makes me feel like I can’t even “like” a comment without the whole world watching. I’ve officially turned into a Facebook Lurker. I never click “Like” and I never comment now. And the page is heinously busy. I can barely even lurk and read with that annoying updating timeline thing. Horrible.

My only question is WHO determines what is important or interesting!?? “You won’t have to worry about missing important stuff. All your news will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top.”

It doesn’t bother me at all.

I hate the new so called upgrades,,which are down grades, they obviously don’t pay attention to the users and their complaints about the way they do things or facebook would keep it the way the users like it,,I mean any one trying to sell something would want to make sure the customer was very happy or they would never go back

Different people use FB differently. Some just use it to keep tabs on friends and family. They’re going to dislike the new feed because it disrupts the normal chronological flow of posts that they’re reading. Top stories is redundant and not needed for these people. Their friend lists are small and manageable and it’s not hard to read all the posts their friends are making.

People with hundreds of friends can’t read everything those friends post and will likely be more receptive with letting FB put the top stories on top. Social networking butterflies want to know what people are buzzing about. Butterfles are less interested in what individuals say and prefer staying current with what the masses are talking about.

To stay successful, FB needs to acommodate both types of users. Ramming every change down the thrats of casual users isn’t going make them happy. Not adding changes to cutting edge social networkers isn’t going to keep them excited. There’s no reason why FB can’t be configured to keep both types of users happy.

Too much information!! In your face immediately. FB is just getting annoying.

You know — I think the problem is we just want to be able to come home to our FB page after a long day and not find the furniture has been rearranged AGAIN. Change is okay — but roll it out slowly and give the option to try the new beta version or stick with the old one. Options — please!! Leave the furniture alone and get the new puppy off my chair!! Ugh!

I don’t bitch about every change on Facebook. By and large, I don’t care. But this makes Facebook just about unusable for me. I use it to connect with friends and colleagues in remote places who don’t know many other people online, often because very few people in their countries have internet access. The heavier emphasis on ‘top news’ (i.e. what is popular) makes it much harder to keep track of their voices and swings this medium even further toward the reinforcement of Western cultural hegemony. I am now shifting as much of my activity as practicable into other media.

Rubbish Put it back! I use less now as dont know what is going on.

I didn’t like the changes at first, but after playing around with the lists (look under Favorites on the left, hover over and click More), I’m very happy with them. I moved all of my family into the family list, all of my close friends into the close friends list, and all of my game friends into the friends list (which I renamed Game Friends). I moved these lists to Favorites, and now when I click on a list under Favorites, I get only the posts from the people on those lists, and in the order they are posted.

As for the ticker, I find it useless. It moves too quickly, and typically shows things I don’t care about. I would rather read them on my list newsfeeds.

Excellent changes for those wishing to cut back on their Facebook usage or eliminate it altogether!

as with all the changes thus far – you’re right, most of us woke up saying “wtf, now???” but we’ll get used to it, right? The phrase that keeps arising for me is… “just because they CAN, doesn’t mean they SHOULD.” along with, “if it ain’t broke, why fix it??”. But ya… i was one of the “oh for cryin’ out loud”-ers… i have decided life is too short to carry that ire around. it is what it is, and fb isn’t about to take MY advice, and until they start charging me for it, i’ll just shut up.

I HATE IT! I’ve never liked Facebook to begin with, but with a huge family spread out all over the country, it’s been the best way for everyone to keep in touch and be apprised of key family news. I am very computer literate, but have never found FB easy to navigate. And these new changes are ridiculous! I wish they would just let you close the stupid “ticker” if you don’t want to see it, which I don’t. I hate those thin little scroll bars. The whole right side of the page is far too junked up. Then this business of them “deciding” what’s the most interesting stuff…. That can go away, and the sooner the better. I have seen some posts by friends that I want to go back to later to comment on, and half the time it takes me forever to find them because they’re not in order. I will choose what I want to read first, Facebook; thank you very much….

I may have to go back to plain old-fashioned e-mail to stay in touch. Bah and humbug on the new Facebook.