Facebook Has New Look
Today, the world’s number one social-networking site, Facebook are beginning to roll out the new home page. The update will happen slowly, so some user should have the new home page over the coming days.
Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced the latest changes last week, saying the alterations were not “something we’ve been working on for a long time”, but a response to the increasing amount of information hosted on the site.
Mr Zuckerberg also warns this redesign will not be the final Facebook facelift.
“This isn’t the last time we are going to change this,” he says.
“As long as the amount of people sharing information is going up, we know we are going in the right direction.”
So what’s changed?
Noticeable changes of the homepage include the ‘What are you doing right now?’ bar changing to the rather Freudian ‘What’s on your mind?’. Below are some of the features from the new Facebook :

Real-Time Stream
The biggest part of the new home page is your improved News Feed, or the stream of content that’s most relevant to you. The stream lets you know what’s happening right now in your world by showing you everything your friends and other connections, such as celebrities, athletes and politicians, are sharing. The stream also makes it simple for you to comment on content and participate in conversations in real-time.

User bar status
One of the important things to remember about the stream is that you are a part of it. That’s why an improved Publisher now sits on the top of the home page. It makes it easy to add your own status, links, photos, thoughts and more into the stream. The Publisher has been updated across the site, including on your profile. So anywhere you create content on Facebook, you will know it’s going into the stream.

Controlling Your Stream
When you’re reading the stream to keep up with friends, you’ll see everything that’s happening. Of course, you may be more interested in certain friends. You might have one friend who posts about local events while you live elsewhere in the country or the world, which is why the left hand column of the new home page is dedicated to filters. We built in some default filters based around location, people you connect with most often, and your existing Friend Lists. Creating new Friend List filters or modifying old ones is easy from the Friends page. You can also filter the stream to show you posts from specific applications.
Discovering Content
The final piece of the new home page is the Highlights section. Highlights shows you what’s happening over a longer period of time—as opposed to the stream, which shows you what’s happening right now. This section will feature photos, notes and other content you probably don’t want to miss: events lots of your friends are attending, links many people have commented on, public profiles your friends connect to and so on. Birthday notifications and pokes will be in this section, as well.

There’s so many pros and cons about the new look of Facebook, some of them don’t want change to the new layout, some of them said that the new look is awesome. But the update is rolling out and you can’t stop it right now just watch and enjoy, let the time will tell.














March 27th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
nice info..thanks for share