Facebook changes layout, prepare for whining

I just logged into Facebook as a means of procrastinating at work (by work I mean my basement from which I update this site) and found the layout had been changed yet again. The new layout streamlines navigation a little by moving requests, messages, and notifications up to little tabs beside the Facebook logo. Other features have been made easier to find with a re-worked left side-bar. The news feed can now be navigated be viewing either top updates or the most recent ones. This introduces YouTube-esque games of whoring for comments and “likes” in order to boost the visibility of your updates. It’s an especially useful/abuse-able and welcome change for shameless self promoters with websites like myself.

Overall, the changes are an incremental improvement, but not especially shocking or revolutionary. Expect your friends to be whining about it non-stop for the next week before they get used to it, just like they have with every other layout change on every website ever.

The changes come with the sixth birthday of Facebook, which has become a ubiquitous social-networking website for everyone worth talking to. Founder Mark Zuckerberg, who created Facebook to meet girls, has bragged that this week also marks Facebook membership crossing the stunning 400 million mark.

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