Facebook Doesn’t Care What You Think, Worms

Facebook is just a social phenomenon to me, since I stopped using it months ago. One interesting aspect of the Facebook mess is the contempt the company seems to have for it’s user community. Witness the most recent fooforaw regrading the new UI just rolled out:

[via The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest by Adam Ostrow]

Facebook didn’t give much warning about the changes. Unlike previous iterations where announcements were prominently placed on member homepages, Facebook seemingly just flipped the switch on this change without doing much to prepare users.

[We’ll have to see what people say when Twitter rolls out the new RT: could be the same howling then, although we’ve been warned.]