The new Facebook
Have you seen the new template that Facebook offers?
I can’t say whether i like it or not yet. What i know is that it looks more professional and easier to handle. Sure, this change doesn’t make it easier to get used to the new facebook. For the first time i switched by chance to the new template i was very surprised and i was scared because i thought i couldn’t switch to the old and loving facebook template.
The new one is separated into four tabs: the wall, info, photos and boxes. One can move from one tab to another according to his/her preferences. This makes it easier to find similar info in certain areas without having to read the whole page. For example, on the info tab you can find the ‘facebooker’s’ personal data or in the photo tab you can find all the photos from the albums, and so goes on. I haven’t found other important changes yet since i haven’t got used to the new template and to be fair i prefer the old one, although it might be a little bit slow or confusing at times.
So, this is how the new page looks like
I think that in this way all similar information can be found in certain areas making it easier for the inexperienced user to find the information he/she is interested about. Moreover, the page is non-linear as the user can select different paths in order to ‘jump’ from one page to another. In my opinion, this new page has been created in order to enhance the user’s movements in order to easily navigate on the panel.
