New Facebook on the way, like it or not
So this is the week when Facebook users are supposed to switch over to social networking site’s new look interface. Apparently this switch-over, which has been in the works for some time now, isn’t going over all that well with some Facebook users.
Here’s an Associated Press story looks at why this change is happening:
Facebook’s facelift separates users’ personal profiles into different areas of the site and provides more tools that are meant to make it easier to share information and photos.
The revisions also shift various applications to the bottom of a person’s home page and clears up more white space - a move that Sanders worries will lead to more intrusive advertising on the site, although Zuckerberg says that won’t happen.
And how it’s being received.
About 40 million users already have checked out the new design and about 30 million embraced it without reverting to the old look, Zuckerberg said. But the seeds of an uprising already have been planted on Facebook’s own site, where several groups and petitions have cropped up to protest the change.
It’s interesting to me how different people react to this sort of thing. I mean, even with the change, Facebook remains pretty conservative compared to, say, the typical brain-bending MySpace page.
Have you tried out the new look yet? Love it? Hate it?
Tim has covered a wide range of topics, including tourism, crime, aviation and gambling, since becoming a reporter in 1990. The Oklahoma native joined the Post-Dispatch in 2007 after spending nine years in Orlando. In his spare time, he's often exploring one virtual world or another. He can be reached at tbarker@post-dispatch.com. 
It’s not bad. I didn’t care for it much at first, but it’s ok now.