Facebook changes appearance

March 12, 2009 · Filed Under News · Comment

On of the fastest expanding social networking website, Facebook on Wednesday night began rolling out a revamped home page. The newer look is designed to emphasize more on the fresh news.
Facebook had announced its plan to change their home page about a week ago. Since then, the company received about a good 30,000 email messages.

According to the Facebook product manager Peter Deng, “The update will happen slowly, so everyone should have the new home page over the coming days.”

The new changes made include making the status update question “What’s on your mind?” The status message theme was introduced during an earlier re-design of the Facebook home page last year.
The new home page upgrades include a Publisher tool. This tool will ease the process of posting photos, videos or other content to the profile pages and share developments with other Facebook friends.

Facebook updates will now be sent in real time from the new home page and emphasize the freshest information.

“As more and more is shared, we want you to be able to find out everything that is going on in the world around you at any given moment, or shape the stream of information most relevant to you,” Deng wrote in a statement.

The new filtering tool on the home page can enable the users to be more selective about whom they want to get news from.

The top online networking website boasts more than 175 million members and expects to surpass 200 million figures by the end of this year.

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