People Hate the New Facebook Because They Hate Change
Table of contents for Change
- People Hate the New Facebook Because They Hate Change
- 5 Ways to Change With the Times
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on change.
I got an invitation yesterday to join a group on Facebook called “Petition Against the “New Facebook”. I was not surprised in the least to get this invitation because:
a) People make groups on Facebook for everything.
and
b) People in general hate change.
I was amazed though that the group had well over 74,000 members when I last checked.
Besides this growing group on Facebook, I have heard many other complaints about the New Facebook and how they just want the old Facebook back. Most of the reasons are because they are “used to” the way it was.
Facebook needed the Facelift really badly and didn’t have much choice in the matter of creating the New look because:
- People were going crazy with applications and you would have to scroll down forever to find anything on their pages.
- When signing up for applications on Facebook, you have to agree to let the application developers have access to all of your personal information. Ideally they were only supposed to use what was needed for their application to work but in reality, they had access to anything you ever put in your private profile and they used the information to sell to advertisers. They made money off of you by selling your personal information. The new Facebook, limits that.
- As people started using Facebook as more than just a game or fun way to stay in touch with friends, the interface had to change to adapt to that. Facebook is now used for all types of businesses, non profits, families, event planning, and many other useful activities. To accommodate the masses, they needed a new interface.
- Facebook was originally created to for college students to stay in touch and was designed for that purpose. As Facebook changes, they want to give the users additional functionality and the best way to do that is to redesign the site so that it allows all the improvements to be added.
People need to accept change just to get by and, to get lucky, they need to pursue change. It is the people signing this petition that pretty much says “we hate change” who lose out on all the luck and opportunity that change has to offer. The “New” Facebook has new functionality that can help people out and make things easier for them but all they are saying is “we don’t want to change and we will fight it (until we have to accept it)”.
In my next post I am going to describe the 5 different types of people when it comes to change and the luck that each group has or doesn’t have.
What do you think of the “new” Facebook or changes like this in general?
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I am not with Facebook presently (I intend to sign up) but if I were, I am afraid I Hate change. But with that said I am willing to change…I think it keeps you younger and more in touch with everything that is happening around you esp. in the world today. Just think of all the things that one would miss out on if we didn’t accept change. We didn’t have the internet awhile back and we had to change to accept that …and now look how far we are.
Actually, I don’t think people simply hate the new Facebook because they hate change. It is because it is simply a bad design. The new Facebook seeks to make things “cleaner” but using tabs instead of making people to scroll down to find things. The fact is, however, I suspect most people are like me and prefer to scroll than click tabs. Then there are other things, like combining the Wall and the News Feed, making it hard to see posts, the ads which are everywhere on the new Facebook, et. al. It is simply not a good design at all and is actually less clean than the old Facebook.
I agree with Mercuire. People don’t hate change, they hate the new Facebook layout. There IS a difference. Now everyone’s page looks exactly the same-boring and dull. I know for myself I spent a lot of time on my profile that says a little something about me. I don’t care for the endless wall posts that seems to now dominate the Facebook profiles. Frankly, I switched over from MySpace to Facebook because I liked Facebook better. Now, I’m not going to be bothered with it anymore.
The USERS are the ones who made Facebook and if you know anything about business, Facebook makes MILLIONS everyday from advertisers because of it’s users. From what I understand, the developers are simply ignoring the users which is pretty F**ked up if you ask me. I wonder how long Facebook would still be a top social site if ALL the users stop using the site-hence stop clicking on the ads. That would mean Facebook would lose millions. Would you want to be ignored when it is you the user who are making these guys super rich? I think not, but hey, they made their millions already right?
TB, You are right that it is the users that make facebook a very profitable business. I didn’t mean to sound like the only reason people hate the new facebook is because they hate change. I personally know many people who are stuck in their ways and don’t like things to change because they are comfortable where they are. I took the opportunity to write about it when I saw the facebook group (which btw now has 1.3 million people - less than 2% of facebook users, not that it means anything).
Having 100 million users, facebook may feel that they can do whatever they want without listening to their users because they feel people have so much invested in them that they wont change. But we’ve seen it time and again where companies feel they are at the top and lose sight of the big picture and their customers go somewhere else. At the rate that the internet is expanding, who knows what is coming next and if and when people will switch.