A change we can Facebook in
Get a grip kids: it's Facebook, not world hunger
MONTREAL (CUP) — After years of relative apathy, millions are finally uniting to fight a great injustice against humanity. Are they finding a cure for cancer? To give peace a chance? To put an end to Scientology? No. They're campaigning for the right to revert back to the old Facebook layout.
What has been called “a merciless top-down decision on the part of Mark Zuckerberg,” “another MySpace clone,” and “annoying and messy,” is rallying the online masses to make a change where it really counts: the design of everyone's favourite social networking Web site.
Now, I'm hardly one of those anti-Facebookers. I have no qualms admitting that Facebook has its virtues, and I like to indulge in a little photo-browsing and wall-posting every now and again. You're not reading the rant of some luddite who thinks Facebook should cease to exist altogether — just someone who is shocked and appalled at the amount of resistance being given to a change so minute and ultimately meaningless.
I don't feel the need to make an itemized list of reasons why the new Facebook is potentially superior to the old one, though I am relieved to have all that “Hatching Eggs,” “Your Horoscope” and “What German Philosopher Are You?” garbage out of my face.
The new Facebook's flaws or virtues aside, the point is: ultimately, who cares?
The answer to that question is 3,659,289. That's right, over 3.5 million enraged social networkers are busily protesting this change with every fibre of their online beings.
The group “Please Keep the Old Facebook. The New Version is a Disaster” elucidates the issue: “With all its complicated tabs and buttons along with endless space reserved for commercial advertisements, Facebook could lose potential users.”
In response to the unjust change, Facebook user Andrew Parry writes: “Facebook wont let me ave da old 1 bk how bad!!”
When it's so elegantly articulated, I find it hard to disagree.
Raymond Okekanmi cries plaintively: “If these ‘scenes' (i.e. hassle with new FB) continue, i will have no other option but to deactivate my account. Hell is low indeed!!!”
Low indeed, Raymond, low indeed.
Nicole M. Keach really gets to the root of the issue: “Bumper stickers and all the fun personality stuff is the on the last tab instead of the first page where people come to visit!!!”
Good point, Nicole. How can we express ourselves, if not through bumper stickers, Microsoft Paint-level drawings, and “fun personality stuff” — like those “What Sex and the City Character Are You?” quizzes?
The group “1 000 000+ to bring back old facebook” (whose member count clocks in at significantly less than the advertised million members — 400,464, to be exact) proposes an ultimatum: “ATTENTION FACE BOOK: IF YOUR NOT GOING TO CHANGE BACK, (WHICH YOU WILL) AT LEAST SEPARATE THE WALL FROM THE MINI FEED.”
Listen “Face book,” you're going to do what we tell you. You are a computer program, but we know “your” listening.
Millions of angry Facebookers have spoken, and they're demanding a change — a change back to the way things were before this change.
Listen up, Mark Zuckerberg. You'd better start caring about us, or you're going to lose us altogether!
Oh. Uh, I mean — Hm.
Seriously, people. Get a hold of yourselves. If the most moral outrage you have felt in the last month has been over the consolidation of your mini-feed and your wall posts, you need to re-evaluate your priorities and maybe close the good ol' MacBook for a while.
There's a whole offline world out there just waiting for you; take it, it's yours. Though I can't make any promises about whether or not it'll change its layout anytime soon.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
MONTREAL (CUP) — After years of relative apathy, millions are finally uniting to fight a great injustice against humanity. Are they finding a cure for cancer? To give peace a chance? To put an end to Scientology? No. They're campaigning for the right to revert back to the old Facebook layout.
What has been called “a merciless top-down decision on the part of Mark Zuckerberg,” “another MySpace clone,” and “annoying and messy,” is rallying the online masses to make a change where it really counts: the design of everyone's favourite social networking Web site.
Now, I'm hardly one of those anti-Facebookers. I have no qualms admitting that Facebook has its virtues, and I like to indulge in a little photo-browsing and wall-posting every now and again. You're not reading the rant of some luddite who thinks Facebook should cease to exist altogether — just someone who is shocked and appalled at the amount of resistance being given to a change so minute and ultimately meaningless.
I don't feel the need to make an itemized list of reasons why the new Facebook is potentially superior to the old one, though I am relieved to have all that “Hatching Eggs,” “Your Horoscope” and “What German Philosopher Are You?” garbage out of my face.
The new Facebook's flaws or virtues aside, the point is: ultimately, who cares?
The answer to that question is 3,659,289. That's right, over 3.5 million enraged social networkers are busily protesting this change with every fibre of their online beings.
The group “Please Keep the Old Facebook. The New Version is a Disaster” elucidates the issue: “With all its complicated tabs and buttons along with endless space reserved for commercial advertisements, Facebook could lose potential users.”
In response to the unjust change, Facebook user Andrew Parry writes: “Facebook wont let me ave da old 1 bk how bad!!”
When it's so elegantly articulated, I find it hard to disagree.
Raymond Okekanmi cries plaintively: “If these ‘scenes' (i.e. hassle with new FB) continue, i will have no other option but to deactivate my account. Hell is low indeed!!!”
Low indeed, Raymond, low indeed.
Nicole M. Keach really gets to the root of the issue: “Bumper stickers and all the fun personality stuff is the on the last tab instead of the first page where people come to visit!!!”
Good point, Nicole. How can we express ourselves, if not through bumper stickers, Microsoft Paint-level drawings, and “fun personality stuff” — like those “What Sex and the City Character Are You?” quizzes?
The group “1 000 000+ to bring back old facebook” (whose member count clocks in at significantly less than the advertised million members — 400,464, to be exact) proposes an ultimatum: “ATTENTION FACE BOOK: IF YOUR NOT GOING TO CHANGE BACK, (WHICH YOU WILL) AT LEAST SEPARATE THE WALL FROM THE MINI FEED.”
Listen “Face book,” you're going to do what we tell you. You are a computer program, but we know “your” listening.
Millions of angry Facebookers have spoken, and they're demanding a change — a change back to the way things were before this change.
Listen up, Mark Zuckerberg. You'd better start caring about us, or you're going to lose us altogether!
Oh. Uh, I mean — Hm.
Seriously, people. Get a hold of yourselves. If the most moral outrage you have felt in the last month has been over the consolidation of your mini-feed and your wall posts, you need to re-evaluate your priorities and maybe close the good ol' MacBook for a while.
There's a whole offline world out there just waiting for you; take it, it's yours. Though I can't make any promises about whether or not it'll change its layout anytime soon.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
