Here’s a clean look at the upcoming Facebook homepage redesign that will go live next week. The new design will give users the ability to easily feed the news stream by friend type and network, and gives users a much easier way to post links, photos and videos. The news feed will also begin updating in real time without page refreshes. See more here. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also wrote a blog post summarizing the changes here.
More screenshots below. The third one shows the new home page compared to the existing version.
“what is on your mind” is so different than “what are you doing” … this will a surreal, fantasy twitter stream
^ lol
It’s all about the thought stream
the subconscious can be a wild beast. in all fairness, though, facebook should prompt ‘What are you doing’ just like they do currently, after all, it’s their invention
It’s already like that. My friends IRL have a tendency to post what’s on their mind already…
hey my fellow redditor.
I always get confused by fb’s current layout. This seems like it has more logic and flow to it.
twitter has been zittered!
Looking good E.Gio
Go fix the bugs in your enterprise shop system.
I’m looking forward to this.
Filters are going to be huge. Companies that lead with filters will be the ones to contend with as more people grab for these services.
It’s all about a service provided “squelch” and getting what you actually care about.
Those services without squelch will be to noisy and quickly abandoned.
sounds like your talking about googls achilles heel. our universe may be expanding but cyberspace is not. innovation will shrink the net.
It’s the natural progression of fast food web.
You could raise a cow, feed it grain, milk it, slaughter it… and from the grain make bread, from the milk make cheese, from the cow make slabs of beef and pound them into burgers.
That’s a lot of work to make a cheeseburger.
Facebook is going to be serving mass appeal cheeseburgers for $0.99 without the need to tend a farm.
Google might do the same but that’s the game…
Who is going to be McDonalds?
Who is going to be White Castle?
Filters, how progressive.
It worked pretty well for big tobacco…
+1
Worth it for the change to "What’s on your mind?" alone. We really don’t care about your lunches.
FFS that’s just Friendfeed
This is good news. They’re also updating the Pages, which also looks very promising.
Ain’t that rip-off of Friendfeed
a better look and refresh from Facebook.
Just what I like, a good old fashion Godfather part II Michael Corleone move to Twitter and MySpace.
It looks like some of the backend changes, like filters, are already live.
Watch out- Facebook will institute a “search” function in the Filters section and they will become a HUGE worldwide search engine, tie in ads = Microsoft +1
I think that’s the logical next step after fb users start using their status updates like tweets. When this happens, fb is going to have a huge leg up on twitter solely based on numbers.
when do they plan to roll this to the users ?
The end is near. For who? That’s for you to decide.
Welcome back Mike!
My first impression is that they are putting Content on the far right side on the homepage.
If they keep the other page layouts the same (Ads on the far right), you will be more likely to look on the side and therefore the ads.
Thoughts?
Looks pretty cool. I like the live changes instead of having to refresh.
Every one is talking about the “what is on your mind” thing, but I think the major evolution of FB statuses is what seems to be the absence of the name in it.
First they dropped the “is”, now they drop the name, this is actually what’s going to change a lot of things in how people use their FB status.
The problem with twitter is the inability to easily track a discussion due to the lack of threading. I’ve used twitter to update my fb status for some time, and find the conversation is much easier to interact with and follow on fb because of the comment structure.
Lately, I’m finding that twitter is less about the conversation and more about tracking news and staying tuned in. Facebook on the other hand is all about the conversation.
I’m extremely excited to start playing around with this new feature on fb. Hopefully my contacts will no longer feel the urge to talk solely in the third person!
Filters…excellent. I was doing my weekly facebook check last night, and turned to my girlfriend and said;
“You know I really wish that you could separate family from friends, and friends from acquaintances. I don’t mind being connected with people I’m not close with, but I really could care less what they had for dinner.”
…and Voolah. ASK AND THOU SHALL RECEIVE! Maybe I should have asked for a Ferrari.
It’s spelt “voilà”, you insensitive clod!
Half the comments on here I agree on and the other half I don’t.
Twitter asks one question, “What are you doing?”, its been like that since its launch, its made for updates, Facebook is made for people to connect to people from the past and present.
Twitter will become stronger as this progresses because its sole business is providing updates to followers of the end user, I hear about twitter on TV, Radio and Newspapers, and they are starting to say “Everyones on twitter”. Facebook are getting phased out by the crowd and they don’t like it. Good luck to Twitter.
I don’t know why I dislike Facebook so much. Maybe it’s the obscene amount of personal data they collect and no real feeling of trust.
This move is clearly a big shot across the bow of Twitter but I don’t see it denting Twitter’s growth.
The media is in love with Twitter, and so are celebrities and a terrific community who’ve taken it to heart. I can’t see anyone saying on the news ‘Facebook that’, for example.
Facebook is old news. Google to buy Twitter. Then it gets interesting.
What kind of data do you put on social networks though? I don’t really care if Facebook knows that I listen to Jack Johnson and like the movie 300…if people do something that gets on Facebook and they don’t want to share it maybe they shouldn’t be doing that thing in the first place.
If Facebook is old news, then everyone on earth would not be still signing up for the site.
I think Twitter and Facebook are different enough in their functionality that they can both exist and grow independently of what the other does. In some ways, they compliment each other well.
IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT
you tell him mate, welcome back, dont take no shit from these dicks
What’s really nice is how much more condensed (and from the looks of it, still easy to read) this new home page is. The eye flow and fixations on the page have been drastically overhauled, meaning users’ eyes will skim more easily, and hopefully use the page more.
The filters on the left really help to anchor the page. A worthy step up from the current, which feels very open and airy, missing the final touches to make it sing.
I like!
It looks amazing actually, I’m definitely looking forward to this update.
One question though: Are pokes gone? It seems like an odd thing to outright remove…
How will I survive without poke?
New review on the in-feed polls Facebook is undertaking on the new redesign.
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Thanks for posting a screenshot – FB is banned at work thanks to the overuse of an employee who has since left the company!
Good job my advertising run for the company had ended on FB as the ban came into effect without it being discussed with anyone!
I wonder if this will go down better than the last time they modified the home page…
no doubt millions of fb users will protest lol
Did Uconnect the houseSYSTEM or were you feed by your best friend that tweets to make this “new” friendface? Best of all most of their “friends” don’t even know this is how they got there…
Yay! More worthlessly tabulated data stashed in random places. I love clicking 5 extra times to get to the information I need for no reason what-so-ever.
Using FriendFeed as a model is a horrible idea. The whole reason a lot of us avoid the service is it’s POS user interface. It’s great if you’re a database designer with no clue about UI flow. For everyone else it’s an obtuse PIA.
Alex you seem to just want everybody on the same “good looking” platform…
let me guess you are reading this on your iPhone…
It’s interesting, facebook may going after twitter but it’s UI is looking more and more like my startup’s UI, http://www.crun...454/31454v2.png
Have they fixed their anti-aliasing issue with their logo? Geez, I can’t believe a site can be that popular, and have an out-of-focus logo (sitting right next to graphics done right).
The aesthetics are awesome. Nice and round and easy on the eye. Can’t wait.
Matthew, Facebook are trying to beat FriendFeed and Twitter now that it can’t buy twitter and this means using its ideas to its larger audience.
I don’t like the new homepage, I can’t seem to get my Facebook “fix”. The filters are killing the addicting nature of Facebook.
Fearless prediction:
Facebook traffic, new member sign ups and time spent will go down in the upcoming months because of the filter feature.
Will this spell the end of Facebook as we know it?
The new Facebook is pathetic.
You can no longer add youtube vids or change the font size or the one liners.
And why do I need to know what everyone is doing every 5 seconds?
my facebook myspace and tagged pages hav changed!!what is going on cos its imposseble to work on them now!!!