New Facebook, new reason to hate it

Ok ok, so we've been down this road before- Mark Zuckerf**k changes the layout, we all complain, then we get used to it, and then another change happens.  But this time, there seems to be serious backlash with this new update.

Personally, I hate it.  I cannot believe Facebook is deciding on what my top stories should be.  There's no rhyme or reason to it.  No, I really don't give a crap about a friend's post from Farmville and no, I don't consider that to be a "top story".  I think the news feed is not user friendly at all.  This twitter-esque status feed on the right side is pretty lame, too.  I cringe each time Facebook changes the layout or some other update to the privacy settings.  Mark has absolutely no regard for his 750 million users.  How about asking what your users want instead of assuming what we want based on what Mark would want?

And the worst part of this is that this isn't the end of it.  Facebook unveiled the new profile layout today at the F8 Conference.

This message to Facebook has been circulating through reposts, including my own status update.  I think it sums it up quite well:

‎"Facebook, you're not near as smart as you think you are. Your algorithms for deciding what I want to see, who I want to talk to or what I think is important are 99.999% of the time the exact polar opposite of what I want. Everything you do to try to simplify things only complicates things more. Every attempt you make to improve things inevitably ends up in a HUGE step backwards. Take for example the new way Facebook displays pictures when clicked on that now appear initially as a compressed blurry mess reminiscent of the internet circa 1990. Something as simple as a Friend Request is now just a headache of options. The chat, instead of just showing everybody that's online now is broken up into segments that YOU GUESS I want to talk to, more often than not displaying many that I rarely want to chat with and many that aren't even online. Do I have the option to just display everyone that IS online? Nope, because as history has taught us Facebook isn't about viewing or doing things that I want, it's about Facebook coming up with some ludicrous idea of how things "should" be and than ramming it down it's users throats. I echo the sentiments of others that have cited that it is this kind of mentality that killed MySpace, a reminder that Facebook should never consider themselves "too big to fail." You're not... repost if you agree.."

If it's not broken, don't fix it.  Facebook has become a huge fixture in pop culture and seems irreplaceable right now..  but the mighty do fall.  I know I would like to have a choice and I hope Google + gains some steam and gives Facebook a run for its money.  What could work is creating a news feed home page that is customizable to what the USER wants.

Google Chrome has the right idea... Here is an article on how to remove that news ticker is you use Chrome.