Rumbles Rant: “anti-new-look-Facebook” groups
In the first of my weekly “final thoughts” on why the internet is rubbish, I look at the phenomenon of “anti-new-look-Facebook” groups.
Ever since Facebook redesigned it’s Web site to be wider, faster, slicker, and generally just a bit better all round, I’ve been inundated with countless “requests” to join various “anti-new-look-Facebook” groups. It would seem that the “kidz” (a group I’m generally “down with”) weren’t too happy to log on to the social network to discover their garish profile boxes, personality tests and aquariums had been unceremoniously dumped in to their own tab, destined now only to gather cyber-dust. The way to fight back? Set up Facebook Groups of course! The biggest of these “anti-new-look-Facebook” groups is alarmingly titled 1,000,000 AGAINST THE NEW FACEBOOK LAYOUT!!1 and boasts a mind-numbing 65,000 “Wall” posts, comprised mostly of childish insults, threats to migrate en-masse to MySpace, thinly-veiled links to viruses and scripts which promise to revert your profile back to the old layout, and lots and lots of CAPITAL LETTERS.
I’m probably not the only one to notice the irony in using Facebook’s powerful Group communication tools to protest against the huge improvements that Facebook have been making in recent months, and in fact I actually welcome our new AJAX overlords who are forging impressive new user interface developments throughout the Web site. I never really had much need to visit Facebook to find out which Disney Princess I am, to send a delicious pie to my secret love, or to zombie attack my mother, so if the cost of removing this rubbish from my profile is a few million upset should-be-MySpace users then it’s a price I’m happy to pay.
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