The student newspaper of Bucks County Community College

The Centurion

The student newspaper of Bucks County Community College

The Centurion

The student newspaper of Bucks County Community College

The Centurion

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You said it: New Facebook sucks

Social networking sites
have been the biggest craze
for the last 5 years from
Friendster to MySpace and
now the new social networking
giant, Facebook.
Facebook is the most common
place to find people you
know or to find new friends
at your school. “I like
Facebook,” said Julia
Valdettaro, 19, a psychology
major “It helps you keep in
touch with old friends but I
really don’t like the new layout
though.” However,
Facebook recently prompted
a major change to its layout
which has a lot of people
upset.
The biggest complaint people
have with the new layout
is the application boxes.
Where once you could move
them to where ever you like,
and now they simply are
glued to one spot.
“It’s scattered, it’s not simply
go to someone’s page
anymore,” stated film and
cinema major Dave Pollinger,
“you have to navigate 3 different
pages instead of going
directly where you want.”
Certain applications that
should be under the boxes
bar are instead under a separate
bar. Many people proclaim
that it’s much more difficult
to find things on the
new layout.
“The user interface layout
seems like a step back from
the old Facebook,” said
Nicholas Camaioni, 23, a
recent Bucks graduate, “It’s
easier to post comments but
harder to access the applications.”
Most people would prefer
an option that is made available
by Facebook’s rival,
MySpace. MySpace also
added a new layout to its network
however under the layouts
category MySpace gives
you the option to go back to
classic view; an option that
many who use Facebook
would prefer was available.
Mardilyn McClellan, 19, a
Bucks Psychology major said,
“I don’t think it’s an improvement,
there was nothing
wrong with the old layout.”
There have been several
people who have stated that
they don’t mind the new layout
for the pages but also
amended that they don’t
spend nearly that much time
on the site. “I like the new
layout,” stated Rachel Smith,
21, a Bucks liberal arts major,
“It does take some getting
used, for example I don’t like
how the wall is blended
together but there’s an option
to separate them.”
It seems that there have
been differing opinions about
the networking giants change
but it seems that more people
would just prefer to go back
to the old layout. There are
some people who actually
prefer to use the new interface.
Overall the message
seems to be that “if it isn’t
broke, don’t fix it”. The fact
that it is required for people
to change over without any
choice seems to be the biggest
irritant in this debacle.
If people were just given an
option about this perhaps
there wouldn’t be groups on
the site being formed like
“Please Keep Old Facebook
an Option”. It seems all of
this could be avoided if the
administrators hadn’t just
jumped to the conclusion that
they needed to change the
layout.
However it all comes back
to preference. Just because
something was comfortable
doesn’t mean that change is
necessarily bad. Yes it can
take some time to get used to
something new, but perhaps
there is a better reason for
this new layout. Who knows,
maybe after several months
everyone will stop complaining
about it and get used to
it? However given the way
that everyone is so gung ho
about the old layout it’s
doubtful that this controversy
will die down anytime soon.