Whenever Facebook launches a major re-design, there is a user outcry. Partly that’s because Facebook is known for its clumsy and confusing design, partly it’s because people are resistant to change. This time round though, the main issue is that Facebook is trying to be something it is not: a newspaper.
The change causing all the fuss is to the News Feed, which makes up the primary content on your Facebook homepage. Instead of the most recent content from your social network displaying on your homepage, now you see “top stories” as determined by Facebook’s software. In announcing the change, Facebook claimed that “News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper.” The problem is, Facebook is a social network – not a news network.
Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/RpdbDcufpl4/facebook_newspaper.php