DISQUS

acafourek · 1 year ago

Well it does have squared corners so it is leaving the Web 2.0-It-Has-To-have-Rounded-Corners-And-Be-Super-Shiny mantra behind for a bit of Windows 98-esque design influence!

John Wooton · 1 year ago

Wow... I didn't even notice it, but you are right. It does look like Windows

Revanth R · 1 year ago

Considering the backlash is just getting started, another similarity to Windows you forgot to mention is that the new design=Vista version of Facebook. It is totally ridiculous how people cling onto old things and resist change. Let's face it, life itself is a constant progression of change. If you can't cope with something as change like this, then how are people going to deal with the non-facebook issues in daily life?

lalunablanca · 1 year ago

Revanth R - What about the perspective that there's so much else changing all the time, why do my apps have to change too? We all don't want chaos and change everywhere.

On the similarities, nice start. It even goes as far as to continue doing things that make no sense (in classic Outlook tradition), like show me events that I already said I wasn't attending. Errgggg.. Okay, I do secretly which the events I "accept" on FB would get tossed to my Outlook. It's almost 2009 and I still have to go create the event in my Outlook. tisk.

daviscollins · 1 year ago

@Revanth R

I totally agree with you. I think that people need to learn that basically everything is going to change, especially on the internet, and the only thing you can do is just learn to deal with it, and you will probably learn to like it more.

shervin · 1 year ago

everything old is new again. Check out my screenshots from my startup, WebOS, when I was 22. It's in my fb profile. -Shervin

Premnath Kudva · 1 year ago

Heh! Right! And it happened all of sudden, with a helpful icon to tell you what it did:-)

chris · 1 year ago

Disappointing. Wasn't the promise of Web 2.0 to be open and untethered? Looks like Facebook is not becoming the new Windows, but the new AOL. How ironic. AOL (as it once existed) is no more because it failed to adapt to the new online paradigm shift, and yet Facebook seems intent on its regression.

Premnath Kudva · 1 year ago

Hah! Now that you say it:-)

mikemonaco · 1 year ago

I called it

gruen · 1 year ago

Now does Microsoft over-purchasing Facebook shares make sense to anyone else?

Erik Giberti · 1 year ago

Too bad they didn't go with Apple's UI on this one. Perhaps MySpace will go this route to differentiate themselves from the last Facebook style navigation they had ripped off.

Erik <-Apple Fanboy

jamie1984 · 1 year ago

just add folders to the application list (either developer/ publisher name e,g, slide or by category. (and facebook needs to revamp the categories if so - more of them and also

may as well add a aol US style approach (get the 3 main competitors (mail) and provide links (they could be in a fb iframe lol

this (if it starts going web os and live mesh (that going the (remote os way and also have sync on devices over the place) could make a exciting future

Chris · 1 year ago

Whats the Globe on the bottom right next to your buddy list :)

bbbbb · 1 year ago

@chris: It's the translation applet. Search for it under applications by facebook.

IVANOVIC · 1 year ago

YEAH IT DOES LOOK LIKE WINDOWS, AND THATS WHY IT SUCKS