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.
