For the past week and a half, Facebook users of all ages and all levels of involvement with the site have about the new Facebook. The biggest change is the one members see when they login: Instead of an algorithmically selected sample of what their friends have done or posted in the past day or so, Facebook now streams every single event from every single friend in realtime down the middle of the page. In short, it looks like Twitter.

Manjoo is sure that the users who complain today will be totally happy with the site by June, to the point of being unwilling to go back to the old format. Yet he also handily lists the two most annoying elements of the redesign:

* The "stream" of events on members' home pages places too much emphasis on real-time updates. That's what Twitter is for. Facebook used to try to filter out uninteresting or trivial events to focus on the big news -- for example, two members changing their status to married to each other. Now, that kind of big news gets washed off the page by a flood of trivial status updates and comments.

* The filtering options for noisy friends aren't specific enough. There's no option for "Show me Farhad's photos, but not his incessant status updates."

Manjoo's argument isn't that the new design is better, it's that any change disrupts users who had become familiar and efficient with the old way. A year and a half ago, many Facebook users complained bitterly about the addition of the . Now, another vocal group of users wants Facebook to bring the News Feed back. How many of them are the same people?