Facebook Unveils Redesigned Profile Pages

Facebook unveiled a new design for your profile, putting more emphasis on pictures and sharing personal information at the top of your page. The makeover will roll out over the course of the next few months. Speaking with Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes, Mark Zuckerburg explains the advantages of the new profile.

“You can see all of the things you have in common with that person. It gives you this amazing connection with that person in a way the current version of the profile today just doesn’t do.”

And CBS’s social media expert explains further…

“It’s really more of a biography of you. You’re introducing yourself to the world through this new profile page in a way that you’ve never been able to on Facebook. Exactly, think of it as meeting someone in a social gathering. The first thing you speak about is what you have in common, where you went to school, what your interests are. This is really what Facebook is emphasizing. So in a sense, they’re breaking the ice. You get to break the ice, on Facebook.”

Unlike past changes to the site, users have the option of opting-in to the new profile. So how are users responding to the update?

A Mashable poll with more than 4,500 votes shows 29% of voters love the new Facebook, 16% hate it, while 23% say they don’t really care. The San Francisco Chronicle highlights one user who falls in the ‘hate it’ category.

"This new layout is just confusing and makes us more like a set of numbers and links than an actual human with that 'profile' feel … Can you please stop 'updating' the aesthetics of Facebook as we once knew it to make it into a social media nightmare?"

But a writer for Product Reviews says, Facebook got it just right this time.

“I think it looks current, and gives me the ‘real’ information I want to see when looking at friends profiles … Overall, I think Facebook have hit the nail on the head.”

And a writer for Wired reminds users, like it or not, you are going to use it.

“But the redesign does re-emphasize one thing: Facebook, not you, controls your online identity, and whether they like the redesign or not, hundreds of millions will accept it and use the service daily.”

So how do you feel about the new Facebook profile?

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