Is stupid.

Bottom line.

I cant begin to understand why Facebook gets a facelift every 6 months. As soon as I get used to the most recent changes, it changes again! Argh!!!

It appears that facebook has decided to take a page out of Twitter’s book and rearrange the homepage. I have absolutely no idea what the purpose of this switcheroo was.

Better organized? No.

Easier to navigate? Heck no.

More relevant information in the news feed? No!

To make matters worse, I had absolutely no idea that facebook was changing yet again. At least with the last drastic change, facebook gave us adequate warning to and an opportunity to preview the new site.  Not this time around. I found out the facebook was changing through my news feed.  Apparently some people were able to see the change before I was. Then, miraculously, I logged into facebook one afternoon and it looked totally different.

No warning, no explanation. Nothing.

Yet…as annoyed as I am with the new new facebook, I’m still on it faithfully, several times per day. I imagine I will adjust to these changes eventually, but I’m not sure how much more I can take. The series of changes over the past 4 years that I’ve been on facebook have not improved the site, in my eyes, instead, it has made it worse.

Facebook’s First Offense:

If i wanted to be online with 70 year-olds and 12 year-olds…I’d get on myspace.

The appeal of Facebook for me was that I could interact with my PEERs. Yes, people like me. College educated….driven…people with jobs. Did I want my 50 year old Aunt or my 10 year old cousin friending me on facebook? NO!

But now that facebook is a free for all,  they get to see all my snazzy photos, track my every thought and read every posting on my wall.

Facebook’s Second Offense:

Insert super intrusive newsfeed in 2007. This required me to totally change my privacy settings so that nothing…and I mean NOTHING i do on facebook would be published. I didnt need the world to know who I friended yesterday, if I was no longer single or what I wrote on my friend’s facebook wall. It was like nosy people heaven! Sooo not why I’m on facebook.

Facebook’s Third Offense:

We all remember the whole TOS fiasco three weeks ago. I totally didnt care, but it ticked enough people off to evoke an apology from Mark Z. and the whole Facebook crew.

Facebook’s Fourth and Final Offense (so far)

This jumbled rediculous mess of a site that is facebook today.

I’m really close to my wits end with this site. I certainly hope they’ll leave it be before they completely drive and others who share my frustration from the site.