Facebook Changes Anger Users, But Are They All For the Best?

Hate, hate, hater of the change today. I am not usually.

Leave FB alone. If it ain't broke don't fix it!

like how does facebook decide what newsfeeds are the most important for you to see..its my own personal choice I say.

Give us time to find something else…you will see people leave.

I've embraced them until now, but I don't appreciate censorship (which is what this is).

go back

I'm just getting used to it myself, what's being censored?

I WANT MY OLD FACEBOOK BACK – YESTERDAY.

please leave it the way it was! thank you

I'm not seeing all my news and groups in the feed, nor most of my game posts. I liked being able to sort my feed by status updates, game posts, photos and links VERY much, and having them now combined is cumbersome, at best… that many are missing is disappointing.

I hate the changes, these ones specifically, but also in general. FB is not the most intuitive interface and it takes a learning curve to figure out how to do the things you want to do and how to set up your view of FB the way you want it. The LAST thing I want is FB deciding for me what I think is "important." Leave it the bloody heck alone! I don't like having to waste the time I would be interacting with friends trying to figure out HOW for the dozenth time this year, month, week. Go back tothe previous and don't keep changing things constantly!

Get rid of this version,, return to the previous one.

I would like to be able to choose how I look at it. If I wanted the top stories, I would click on "top stories." I don't need FB to tell me what it thinks I would be interested in. On top of that, all the "blue corner suggestions" that would be interesting to me… Not interesting. How about FB stays FB and stops trying to be more like Google+.

I've rolled with the other changes. I'm NOT rolling with this one. How can FB think that they know what is important to me? That's MY decision, not theirs. It's a great thing, allowing me to reconnect with people I knew years ago and those who are far away…and apparently Google is ready to roll their version out. Since I like Google well enough to use Chrome rather than other browsers, I'd say that may be an option.

This is the first change that makes me want to scrap facebook. Up to this bulky, bad change, I was ok with what they did.

PLEASE change back! I do not like this change at all.

did u read mine?? WTF = welcome to facebook lol also amongst what it really means lol

Whenever they try to predict what I want to see/read, they are ALWAYS WRONG! Who's running the show? Rainman?

They think we will get use to this in a few days? Are they crazy? Making changes all the time like this is what got Myspace not so popular. Most of people did leave Myspace and came to Facebook. And now they are doing the same things. You have to hunt on the sign out button. It took five minutes to figure out how to view my own profile. I miss being able to separate my game post, status updates, pictures and videos, and links. I would hit a button and there they were. They need to change it back. Though they could had a dislike button.

SUX…. I agree with what Darcy said below.

change it back! I was just getting used to the LAST set of changes! and I certainly don't appreciate FB assuming what is most interesting or important to me.

Yep, this change has made the site all but unusable. They've made changes I don't agree with in the past, but this change makes the news feed any annoying mess (If I'd wanted to use "top stories" I'd have clicked the link on the old FB which I never did). And the "ticker" is a security circumvention of the privacy settings…

Usually the changes aren't that bad, but I don't like that Facebook chooses for me what is important to me. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who knows what is important to me, even in little things like Facebook. Now it just looks like a mish mash of unorganized information.

So they think they can make a machine read my mind? NOT! It doesn't do me any physical harm, but it's ludicrous and a bit insulting for Zuckerberg to think he can come up with software that actually can figure out what I like and what I would rather not see. It's hard enough for me to read my own mind, but I can do it better than FB!

I don't like how they are changing facebook pretty soon it will be like myspace this new layout sucks I want facebook the way it was last year.

A bit too much Big Brother. Why does FB think it is important to me to see news headlines (which I do read) but not the pics/videos/posts from my daughter?

The newest changes are awful. They make all of Facebook now very bulky. I would like to decide what I want to view from my friends, pages & groups. I don't want Facebook or anyone making that decision for me. I don't need the ticker at the side as well as the posts on my wall – it's monotonous. Facebook is losing touch with reality with these latest changes. Why not take allow people to either go with the new change or opt to stay with the old one. I would bet most would stay with the old one.

This change sucks. I don't like the layout, I don't like that Zuckerberg and his minions think they can decide what I'm going to like or not like or want to see, when half the time, I don't even know. Haven't you ever read a post or a headline and found yourself interested even though it's not your usual fare? Now you'll miss out on those things. Change is okay, when it's positive change, but FB is constantly in change for no apparent reason and to no benefit. If you want people to keep using your service – thus making money for you on the advertising and such – you need to ask the users what they'd like to have, not decide for them.

I switched mine back.

How???

The worst part? You have to go in and determine what you want to see from each person, individually. For someone with 300 friends, that's pretty much an all day job. grrrr

Burton Wheeler go to the right side by where your name is and click on the down arrow

I would have to agree that FB is so stupid to think they know what I want to see. How can the presume they know this? I am very upset because I have to hunt for my game post and other post that are actually important to me. My news feed is filled up with s**t I don't consider important at all. It is very time consuming and aggravating. DOn't PRESUME YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO SEE! I decide this not you FB. Change it back so we can see what we want to see and not what you want us to see!

Marty McCormack then what?

I concur!!!

So they believe my little sister's friend's post about not going to school today would be a top story for me? It was the very top story for me this morning. I never even used the top news option with the old FB, I always clicked Most Recent, now we no longer have that option. If they're going to change the feed that drastically, they should've tossed us a bone and left the Most Recent button at least. We are the people who log in every day and click past the many ads on the side which pays the salaries of those who run the site, why are our opinions never even considered when it comes to changing our pages like this?

Quit messing with it – HATE the new setup. Bring back the old, ASAP!

That was my first thought exactly. Who are they to determine what's important to me, and what's not.

Really hate the change! It's too confusing — nothing was wrong with the old FB. Guess it is really time for me to get close page down. I spend to much time on FB anyway. This is a good reason:)

It's one thing to innovate – it's another thing to suck. Facebook must be stopped.

http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2011/09/01/facebook-must-be-stopped/

I would like to make my own choices please!

well hate everything about the new changes, I decide what is important to me NOT FB! As of this moment setting up a google account.

I will admit that I fall into the crowd of people who hate the changes, but then get used to them and move on.

What ultimately annoys me, though, is that each change *reminds* me that I'm using Facebook. It's like they keep popping up while I'm in the middle of something and saying, "Hey! Don't forget: You're using Facebook!"

Does that make sense?

yah, ever since they updated the chat, I have had no chat! it was so bad that I have hardly even had anything to do with it since they did that, and now they want to tell me what I want to see?

Hate it, hate it, hate it – it makes the home screen WAY TOO BUSY with stuff that I really am not that interested in and has removed the stuff that I like – CRAZY!

Yeah, I was just wondering how they know what is most interesting to me?

I can't find anything, posts are going missing. All of my God kid's post are gone from my news feed, as are any from my family. I was willing to live and let live with previous changes but now Google is starting to look awfully good.

if it isn't broken stop"fixing"it!

2006 Myspace was the best, CCS script to customize your page, fonts background images, MUSIC even. Didn't need "status updates" because there were BULLETINS, messages could be messages, REAL groups with top 5 threads, and comments on friends pages rather than "posting to WALL". I'd do anything for this back again!

You know Sean Myspace still exists, unfortunately all you'll get on your friends pages are fake girls in bikinis trying to friend you now

James Allen Johnson 2006 myspace was the only good one.. once they started trying to BE facebook with "status updates" it was over

And they assume people can't CHANGE their minds and become interested in different things.

Learn how to use Facebook properly and it wont be a problem, do you not think that all these things were taken into consideration before they did it. You can customize your page to show exactly what you want. Of course even I raged about it for all of 15 minutes but if you don't learn to use everything they give you it will be a half ass profile and you won't benefit from any of the updates.

Bring back the old and give people options! Don't tell how it is going to be! Something else will be out there and facebook will get dumped like myspace in long run. Put more thought this before you do it!

I want FB to go back 2 the way it was when I origanally set my page up, but that was a few years ago.

Amanda Tomaino ya i want it how it was 2 yrs ago

I agree with you, and I believe that it's not the changes that have made users angry but the way in which FB rolled them out. Just posted a blog about it. Would love to hear your comments. http://www.bevisibleassoc.com/blog/facebook-changes-why-the-anger/

But while trying to" Fix" it they did break it.. and in fact they break it more with each change.