Facebook Homepage Gets Yet another Makeover

Another Makeover for Facebook Homepage

Techtree News Staff, Oct 26, 2009 1652 hrs IST

Have you checked it out yet?

Facebook has yet again made substantial changes to its much maligned home page without warning resulting in an expected backlash. The social networking website boasting of over 300 million users has been in the past too known for its fixation with sudden home page changes, which receive lots of attention thanks to the sheer number of Facebook users out there.

In its latest update, Facebook has tweaked its Live News feed to display only those posts that Facebook thinks would be useful for you and your network of friends. So, what you will see here are feeds that are popular and have a sizable number of comments and likes. Other posts can, of course, be seen under the Live Feeds section which is still real-time. As expected, there has been a huge hue and cry over the current changes with the homepage and with over 300 million users, it certainly is difficult to please everyone. According to Facebook, the design changes came after a decent amount of feedback from existing users and represent the larger voice of Facebook users, which wanted this system.

Other noticeable updates include the new progress bar under a profile picture. This one lets you know how active your friend is on Facebook. This is apart from the twitter-like @tag that had been recently introduced.

Have you checked the updated home page yet? You might not actually notice all these changes if you like most Indians come from the Orkut school of thought, but then, Facebook is growing here in India-- and growing too fast to be ignored.

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As @tag is my username on Twitter, it would be great if you could change @tag to the correct term "@replies" - due to the popularity of this article my Twitter replies are a bit inundated to say the least, and effectively I can't use them. Thanks in advance.

by Tom, London, on Oct 28, 2009 03:45 AM, Report abuse Reply

1) Post a link button does not work in Firefox 3.5.3 2) Share on Facebook button I added to my Firefox also does not work 3) List of icons of application (bottom of page) not visible in Firefox 3.5.3 4) 'Older Posts at the bottom of the page of news feed not visible in Firefox 3.5.3 5) Cannot access chat in Firefox 3.5.3 & IE 8. 6) Could not wish my friend on his bday thru IE8 7) Cant access friends who are online overall does not seem to work weel at all in Firefox 3.5.3.

by EsEsEm, Mumbai, on Oct 27, 2009 09:03 AM, Report abuse Reply

Post a link button does not work in Firefox 3.5.3 Share on Facebook button I added to my Firefox also does not work List of icons of application not visible in Firefox 3.5.3 Cannot access chat in Firefox 3.5.3 & IE 8. Could not wish my friend on his bday thru IE8

by S M, Mumbai, on Oct 27, 2009 08:54 AM, Report abuse Reply

This was a buggy site before & now its worse, am thinking of quitting. Cant access friends who are online etc overall does not seem to work weel at all in Firefox 3.5.3. Yesterday I could not even add a link or wish my friend on his bday (using IE8) :((

by S M, Mumbai, on Oct 27, 2009 08:47 AM, Report abuse Reply

my fb sucks... everytim i log in it showa my account is not avilable..wot d heck is wrong???

by reza mohammed h, chennai, on Oct 27, 2009 01:08 AM, Report abuse Reply

Me too mate...its being like that for the last 2days i hate FB dont care about any new update nemore i just want facebook to be reliable like it use to

by teeboy, Sydney, on Oct 27, 2009 06:59 AM, Report abuse

Yes, but it has caused trouble with my account, it constantly says that it is temporarily unavailable, plus all my friends keep getting deleted. When will this be fixed, I see I am not the only one with this problem.

by darlyn youngman, glen arm, on Oct 26, 2009 08:11 PM, Report abuse Reply

home facebook come friends plz

by jaskirt, successline, on Oct 26, 2009 08:00 PM, Report abuse Reply

The changes are great, but a little explanation would have helped calm the masses. No one likes suprises.

by member, St Joseph, on Oct 26, 2009 07:45 PM, Report abuse Reply

good

by khalid.nile, sudan, on Oct 26, 2009 06:32 PM, Report abuse Reply

very confusing and not good direction

by michael desalvo, syr., on Oct 26, 2009 06:32 PM, Report abuse Reply

HATE The NEW FB!

by Aggravated, Atlanta, on Oct 26, 2009 06:03 PM, Report abuse Reply

I have been unable to access my FB page for several days, doesn't recognize my login or if I do access I cannot see curent info or update my profile. I wish they would spend more time fixing problems than redesigning the site.

by Kim, Alexandria, VA, on Oct 26, 2009 05:59 PM, Report abuse Reply