Granted, Facebook’s recent redesign came with a couple of flaws, and lots of people were upset about the changes, but resorting to street protests to try and turn them around?
Apparently, a few people have gathered in Paris to protest against the changes in Facebook, and Alex van Herwijnen was nice enough to send us some pictures he snagged while visiting the French capital. The protesters can be found at the Arche de la Défense, holding signs saying that they’re against the new version of Facebook and that they want the old one back.
Clearly, they’re not happy with the redesign even if Facebook has already made some changes due to user complaints (against Michael’s advice), or maybe they’re just really pissed because it’s still confusing their mothers.
From the looks of it, this is probably a prank or more likely part of a video shoot or something. TechCrunch France’s Alain Eskenazi and I looked around for reports in French media, but couldn’t find anything.
I also did a quick search on Facebook to see if there were any related groups or events on the site, but had trouble finding anything in the messy new interface. Maybe I should head down to Paris and voice my complaints with the other protesters?
They redesigned that website where I go to look at my friends pictures!!!! The world is coming to an end!!!!
Homepage customisation: To see what people doing other than what people sharing explicitly. Profile customisation: To see tab format or single page format.
When launching new profile, Zuck told he can’t offer both versions as his team is “small”. Now all oither works over, facebook should offer user customisation, let people choose what they want.
haha, as a French I’m quite ashamed about that…
Don’t take it too hard.
For french people, protesting is the same as .. .. let’s say… Barbecue for Americans.
It’s just their way to have fun.
I hope there are more than 20 americans to barbecued.
Thanks for that one, Adolf.
None sense! it is unfortunate to witness the dumbest generations ever…
This is nothing compared to the Spotrunner case that is brewing!
I’m surprised this hasn’t been picked up by CNN.
OMG. I’m so not proud to be French…
Oh la la, regardez les perdants !
Hey look, crazy people with nothing to do!
Just like the 15th where it was a Faux news sponsored holiday… (tea bag anyone?)
Please. If that falls into that category, then so does all political protest.
I agree with them the new Facebook design is flawed. Leave it to the French. They will sort it
OH MY GOD.
So ashamed (as I’m French).
Did someone tell them that if they aint happy they just have to delete their accounts haha
That actually looks like fun. Love that wall!
Next step: taking Zuckerberg hostage in his Palo Alto office.
That should be funny
And force him to eat exquisitely delicious but slightly overcooked food, LOL (see the Colbert Report a few weeks back).
Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Raises the question if a protest that was just staged for digitalization is less valid or maybe even more valid. Is it possible to distinguish between real and staged show of frustration?
Here on TC????? good luck.
hehe, la grande nation just takes ANY chance to protest …
The French sure like their protests.
the bastille…pashh that was nothing
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They need to get a vie.
This is such a PR stunt by facebook. I dont know if you guys know that facebook has brilliant marketing driven PR
I’m French too, and I’m embarrassed as well, what a fucking bunch of snail-eating twits… Get a life you fucking frogs…
Arretez de nous faire passer pour des cons, merde.
Don’t hate the new version enough to go on the street. Just stopped using it all that often lately.
It used to give some overview of what my friends were doing, but now there’s just a mess. It’s not “disruptive”, it’s trying to force one service to be another one and the users keep using it the old way.
I was bummed to find out the changes were extremely minor and barely noticeable. My hope was that the site would suck a little less. Nope, it sucks just the same amount.
they do realize they can stay at home and just protest on facebook, right?
they couldn’t figure out how
They’d better protest against Hadopi (the upcoming french law against piracy that enables right owners to cut internet access from people without even a trial, denies any basic rights from so-called pirates, will condemn many innocents and forces people to install a spyware monitoring their activities on their computers)… By the way, the demonstration against this law is planned next saturday (but the legitimacy of the demonstration is being discussed and some think it is not the best way to protest against this stupid law).
Cool… The protest is an excuse to get out of the house, have some fun then get a bite to eat… and of course, make love! – What is wrong with that?
leave to the french to look like idiots in the street protesting something so useless as this
@silicon
C’mon! lighten up dude! Trust me… the years I lived in Paris were the best so far… I’m going back in the summer as a partner for a start-up…
Video shoot – Huge camera supports, marshalls, people looking bored (texting friends to say they are on a boring video shoot etc), a set. Video.
Looks like a massive crowd.
Was this also a “Twitter-Revolution” like in Moldova two weeks ago?
Nope it’s different. In Moldova, the protestors were actually protesting against something, well, maybe more meaningful than this. They were just using Twitter to organise the protest, which was what the “Twitter-Revolution” was about. (See http://www.tech...ion-in-moldova/)
While I’m not discounting the fact that Facebook is important enough in people’s lives that they would actually take to the streets to protest about it, I think the fact that the writers “looked around for reports in French media, but couldn’t find anything” maybe does point to a few things: 1. the protest really is a prank, 2. it’s not news-worthy enough, 3. it’s embarrassing to a majority of the French that their own countrymen would actually protest about such a thing, and 4. maybe the protestors don’t know what’s really important to fight for in life anymore.
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Glad that the redesign was made in Spring as protesting in Winter would’ve been harder. Funny to think that these pictures will appear in Facebook with everybody tagged. Hopefully, FB will keep on enfuriating these people until they realize that they have more fun taking to the streets and talking face to face than sitting in front of a screen (yes, I’m aware that this is written in front of a screen).
Is that Thing One and Thing Two pretesting in France?
sounds like they live, eat and will do anything to keep their old facebook..haha
LOL
les pauvres imbéciles, ils n’ont rien de mieux et plus importants à faire comme par exemple manifester contre HADOPI, ce qui est bien plus grave.
Ca prouve que ces français sont vraiment des idiots, ils n’ont rien à foutre qu’on les prive de leur liberté et qu’on les flique mais faut surtout pas toucher à leur page facebook.
pays de merde !
La manifestation HADOPI étant une semaine plus tard, ils peuvent faire les deux.
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Haha i’m loving it
Gotta love them French..
what’s next, they’re gonna “stop using facebook altogether”?? Haha…
You FOOLS don’t you see the crane, the cables, and the pee-wee on the pics ? It’s obviously a shooting… Et pour les Français, pas besoin d’avoir honte.
This could have been such an awesome april fools stunt. Alas.
I think they over-reacted. : )
so the internet really is serious business?
Oh come on, don’t this people have anything better to do?
Uhmmm….there’s like 20 people there. I’m gonna call up a few of my friends and stand out on Market Street with a large banner sign – will you cover our protest as well?
Why do people in Europe have the time for such meaningless protests?
Perhaps people are taking the internet too seriously?
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Uh guys, just to let you know, this as a movie shooting, there is a part of the movie about facebook, but it was absolutely not a real protest !!!
It’s the new french revolution!