Another Facebook User Revolt on the Horizon? Of Course!

23.09.2011
How will Facebook users react to the huge changes soon to land at the world's largest social network? Anecdotal evidence suggests, not well. According to a number of informal poles, four out of five Facebook users see the upcoming facelift and new features as unpopular.

We know Facebook . Just this week an anti-change Facebook campaign sprang up within hours of Facebook unveiling changes to its news feed. Now, with Thursday's f8 conference keynote by Mark Zuckerberg where he announced sweeping changes over how your Facebook profile will look and a radical new approach to collecting user data, it's a foregone conclusion some users will be outraged.

Here is quick overview of the changes and some comments from the pitchfork wielding Facebook crowd that is already amassing.

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This week's sneak peek at the tectonic redesign changes coming soon to Facebook has clearly already stirred the pot of social networking discontent.

"What Facebook needs to understand is that every user is different. What Facebook should do is offer the extra options instead of forcing them on us users," writes PCWorld . "That way, we can choose what we need and what we don't need."