The long awaited update to social networking site Facebook, aimed at making it easier to receive update on the activities of friends that was first announced on The Shelf in ‘Facebook Plans A Facelift‘ back in May, was unveiled today.
As part of the redesign Facebook users will be able to see the activity of users they are networked with through a central interface, which is intended to give the site a tidier look.
At the end of 2007 Facebook was reported to have recorded its first ever drop in users figures, with an additional 5% also recorded in the UK through the first three month of 2008. The loss was estimated to account for up to 400,000 users, and many suggested that users were growing tired of the increasing number of third party applications that resulted in congested profile pages with longer loading times.
By tidying up the site and combining several different menus into a single navigation bar, and adding together features such as adding photos and videos to one single tab called ‘publisher’, Facebook aims to have a cleaner and less cluttered look, and essentially win back the users it started to loose in early 2008.
Social networking rival MySpace also launched a new cleaner look last month after it had experienced similar drops in user activity.
As part of the new look Facebook has launched, users will still be able to add a range of third party applications, however these will now reside under a new tab away form the user main profile.
If you would like a sneak peak at the new Facebook site then visit new.facebook.com
For some detailed user statistics on Facebook and other Social Networking sites read Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:28 am
Nice post, you got some good points there - thank you.