Facebook "stream" redesign: Disruptive companies don't listen to their customers

I'm not a huge Facebook user, but I don't get what the big deal with the change is. They just made the news feed a little more prominent. The older design from a few weeks ago emphasized that already.<p>Whenever I logged on, that was the main thing I checked anyways - updates about what my friends were up to.<p>If anything, I think it's good. It'll give me more opportunity to keep in touch with people in little ways hear and there.

I like the facebook redesign. I think it's snappy and I can still easily get to all the information I need when looking up contact info. Further, the AJAX loads pages considerably faster, and in many cases incrementally (e.g. pictures), radically decreasing the effective "response time" of the site.<p>I really have to wonder why we're even talking about it in a controversial way instead of an analysis of the technological changes and their effect on the site. It seems this is the wrong site for a controversial facebook design argument.

actually they do...they just don't listen to the 1% that bitches and moans.

Every time facebook makes a change, everyone whines about it for a month then actually likes it. Why would this change be any different?<p>It would seem people are just perpetually afraid of any sort of change at all

I just saw a video of Zuckerberg on Google Video (NYC Facebook developers meeting in Dec 2007).<p>He predicted accurately where they'd be by now in terms of numbers.<p>But I got this impression: He listens to his (outside) developers.<p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8966315003179793637&#38;ei=eqjGSevcM9CF-AbPs8GLBQ&#38;q=zuckerberg+nyc" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8966315003179793637...</a>

Two words: <i></i>Vocal Minority<i></i><p>This happens <i>every time</i> Facebook (or any other major site for that matter) makes a change. A few months from now everyone will forget about it and get on with their lives. At least until they change it again, when everyone flips out and wants the 'old' layout back (eg, the one they're complaining about today).

The real question is: who has nothing else better going on in their life that they must complain about a FB redesign?