Facebook Updates

To be honest, I am not real big on checking my Facebook. I probably only check it a few times a week. The only reason I got an account is because my wife thought it would be a good idea to keep up with family that we don't see everyday.

Anyways, I found an article on New York Times website talking about some of the recent changes to Facebook. They changed Facebook? According to this article, they did. The article didn't go into great details about the changes, but rather asks whether or not you like the changes. So I just logged on to my Facebook account to see what all they hype is about.

When I first logged in, I didn't really notice too many changes, just some more confusing stuff on the right hand side. I guess it doesn't bother me, before there was just a lot of white space on my computer over there. I guess that depends on your screen resolution. I was logged on for about 10 minutes checking out whats happening in peoples lives and responded to an email and noticed that the new ticker kept changing every time one of my friends did something. I guess I know how much certain friends are on Facebook.

Back to the article, it also referenced that Facebook made some more changes to their privacy settings. Which is always a good thing, I still don't feel really excited about sharing a whole of information of Facebook and don't really like sharing pictures and videos, because I don't know who will be accessing them. So any more secure settings is a good thing.

The last thing the article referred to was you can subscribe to someone's page that you aren't friends with. I can see why this might be a good thing. There are some of my friends that I am not really friends with but maybe would just like to keep tabs about what they have going on in their life. But at the same time, someone can subscribe to my page, even though we are not friends.

Sounds like their are a lot of people who do not like the new changes, what do you think of the changes? Am I missing something? I probably am, as I consider myself a Facebook beginner.