Facebook Caves to User Gripes Over Redesign

From PC World: Facebook says it will tweak its homepage in the coming weeks in direct response to user uproar over recent designs changes. The social network caved to customer feedback against the site's recent improvements and says it decided to listen to the millions asking for less change.

Chris Cox, Facebook Director of Product, posted last night on the Facebook Blog a lengthy explanation of the features the social network is going to look into tweaking after the colossal user feedback. The most changes will be seen in the users' streams, which will finally get live updating and friend list filters.

"Redesigns are generally hard to manage, in part because change is always hard and in part because we may miss improvements that any individual user may like to see," said Chris Cox in his blog post. This week, change was hard on almost two million Facebook users, which joined petition groups campaigning against the site's latest improvements.

The stream, the central dashboard on the main Facebook page, is the part that will see the most significant changes. Facebook claims that this is where the most user feedback was focused on, so they decided to concentrate on "improvements immediately and over the next several weeks."

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