86 Percent of Facebook Users Dislike Redesign, Facebook Timeline lets you see who has unfriended you, How to Kill the Facebook News Ticker, Does Facebook's News Feed Punish Advertisers (Yet)? All these unanswered questions are here to answer. There are two things on the Internet that you can almost always count on: Facebook is going to make changes to its layout without really telling its users in advance, and its users are going to spend the next two days blasting the changes on their Facebook updates – and a side group of people are going to blast the blasters for being "overdramatic."
But instead of just surrendering to the court of nebulous public Facebook opinion on this one, let's look at the numbers. Specifically, the 1,049 users voting as part of a Sodahead poll that asked them to share their opinion about the changes. Are you sitting down?
No need; It should come as little surprise that 86 percent of those voting gave a big fat "dislike" to Facebook's new redesign – that's the design that sticks your "top" news to the top of your Facebook homepage and slaps a real-time "Facebook updates" sidebar, or the "Facebook within a Facebook" joke that's been hitting the site recently, to the side of your screen.
Breaking down the dislikes a little further, 91 percent of teenagers voting in Sodahead's survey said they weren't fans of Facebook's recent design changes. Young adults seemed to fare a little bit better with the changes, but the 79 percent screaming "dislike" was still not that much of an improvement overall.
Sodahead didn't deliver an age range for what it considers "young adults," but an April analysis by Ignite Social Media indicates that roughly 25 percent of Facebook's worldwide users fall between 25 and 34 years of age. Approximately 12 percent of Facebook's users are between 18 and 24.
Sodahead's survey did identify one group that liked Facebook's changes more than most: 55 percent of IT workers said they liked Facebook's redesign, although Sodahead doesn't give a total number of how many IT workers responded to its survey. The same is true for those identified as making over $100K yearly, of which 36 percent said they liked Facebook's new changes, as well as those who indicated they were college students – 30 percent reported satisfaction with Facebook's redesign.
The results of Sodahead's survey might be short-lived, however: The new Facebook timeline debuts September 29, and it's a comprehensive transformation of one's standard profile page into an interactive archive of Facebook activity. If you thought Facebook's tiny news feed changes were a big deal, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Source: pcmag
