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Facebook Redesign is National News? Cool.
By Dominic J. Litten | July 21, 2008
You know how I know Facebook is still relevant? When the CBS Morning Show reports on it five minutes after 7 a.m. 
While there are far greater tests to determine newsworthiness, getting mentioned on a network morning show before the first commercial break means someone feels that the American public should care about that particular subject, if for only a day.
So why did Facebook redesign the profile pages? According to Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Product Marketing, it was two fold:
- Make profiles cleaner and simpler, give users more control over their profiles, and emphasize recent and relevant information
- Create more meaningful engagement with users, offer new integration points in profiles, and provide distribution for engaging applications
By emphasizing “recent and relevant information,” TechCrunch called the new design the “Friendfeedization of Facebook.” ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez believes that with its new design, like many of it’s initial users, Facebook is “all grown up.”
Whatever reason it may be, I’m still fascinated that the redesign was worthy of national news. Will future redesigns warrent this type of coverage? At what point does Matt Lauer discuss a Twitter redesign?
At any rate, it may signal just how important social networks/media is becoming to the mainstream.
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July 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Redesign? Recent grammar improvements? Looks like Facebook’s handlers are in a proactive phase. Now if only we could curb the proactive pushing of applications and follow the other great tips in Sugarrae’s Updated Unofficial and Smartass Guide to Using Facebook …
July 28th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Why does Facebook hate me? No new look when I log in. Is it so subtle that I would not notice?