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At the first glances, the new Facebook’s profile looks cleaner, more visual and a bit more impressive. However, I am certainly not a fan of this brand new profile due to these following small yet frustrating defects:
- Below my name at the top of the profile comes a Wikipedia-like mini-biography of my life:
Studied at Hue College of Sciences. Lives in Singapore sity. In a Relationship. Speaking English, Vietnamese. From Hue, Vietnam. Born on Feb 14, 19**, for example. Why we have to show off more and more personal information in FB while we don’t want?
- Deploying the SAME SMALLER FONT SIZE on the profile pages. I find myself squinting to read the updates whilst the friends’ name are bold, far clearer and occupying great spaces in the left hand side.
- Mixing up everything around in both sides. I again find myself hunting when doing sth.
- I myself find it irritating when FaceBook sports an “infinite scroll” feature of all the photos I’m tagged in. No doubt, FB pages seem nicer with an emphasis on images. However, my “Photos” page now seem to become to Google images searching page with keywords: “H**ng H*u Th*nh” LOL
- The layout and navigation are no longer user-friendly since it has to share too much spaces for images. To post a short message in my friend wall, I have to click many buttons. Wait, see, the ever ambiguous POKE function is “promoted” with great prominence!! (in the upper-right of the profile next to the “message” button)
One of the nice point is you can show off (and marketing) your girl/boy friend, family, relatives and dear friends with their awesome avatars.
BAD NEWS: There will be NO DOWNGRADE once you’ve upgraded your profile. What’s more, the transition will occur sometime “early next year” no matter you like it or not(!!) … unless there is massive user backlash against the new Profile!! So if any of you guys gonna create a page against the new profile, I’m definitely the first one LIKE IT! (and many will do too)
Since Facebook’s provided us a free and terrific service, I definitely not gonna complain anything more than these feelings and suggestions. Looking forward to see better news from U…