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Facebook plans a facelift, responding to complaints from users that the site has gotten confusing with all of the vampires, widgets, games, and requests for digital friendship.
While the company has consulted with 85,000 users around the world to comment on the new organizational layout, as users overall complained of the over-commercialization of the Facebook design. What was so appealing about Facebook from the beginning was how un-MySpace it looked: clean, user-driven, and no overwhelming, blinking ads. The facelift is an attempt to get back to that simplified user experience.
But is simplicity what users are ultimately after? Communities online and offline are, by nature, very messy when then work well. Facebook has gotten cluttered because it has grown so quickly. Rather than relying on designers to create the perfect Facebook experience that appeals to teenagers as well as book club-organizing-grandmothers, why not give users the tools to design their own experience?
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