Okay, I finally have the new Facebook layout and I am not that impressed. The style is fairly pleasing to the eye but in has introduced many changes that just seem to make the experience of using FB more irritating.
Firstly, the applications have been moved from the bottom bar, which itself has just become the “chat bar”, to the side menu on the “Home Page” ONLY! I can’t see how that is possibly an improvement. There is significant space left on the top bar to have added a new drop-down menu with exactly the same content. You also cannot re-arrange the order in which the applications appear, they seem to have come across in whatever order you previously had them and that’s all you can have.
The wall menu seems to have become automatic, if you scroll to the bottom and wait for a couple of seconds it will auto load older messages. This is very irritating if you are trying to click any of the links (i.e. to change the language!!)
Previously, if an application sent a notification it would appear to pop-up from the bar at the bottom (in the right-hand corner) where the “notifications” icon was. Now it appears in the bottom left corner for no obvious reason for about 2 seconds, and if you miss it you will have to load all the notifications to see those “sent by me”!
Hopefully these “little” annoyances will be set right soon, but it is pretty poor that they were allowed to get to this stage….
