Facebook’s recent redesign, intended to make it more of a destination for real-time information, is being panned by some users who complain that the changes make it more difficult to keep in touch with friends, not easier, as the company promised.
Some members have even formed protest groups to pressure Facebook to reconsider the revamp, which began rolling out late last week, and are enlisting others to join them. One group, “One million against the new Facebook look,” had 254,512 members as of Tuesday afternoon.
Christine Ledo, a veterinary technician in Oakland, said she’s upset that Facebook changed how it handles what she called “passive information.” Previously, she could see in her feed when a friend connected with someone else or joined a group. It tipped her off to people she might also want to friend or groups she might want to join. Now, she complains, the information appears in a different place or not at all.
Ledo said she’s giving Facebook a month to fix the problem. Every day the company doesn’t, she said, she sends it a message. If Facebook doesn’t respond after a month, Ledo said, “I am deleting my account.”
