What users and Zuckerberg think
As with any alteration to Facebook, many users who have already got the revamp (and everyone will by the beginning of 2011) are bemoaning these new enhancements and want their old profile back.
One commented on the blog: "Dude, let us at least change it back if we want to, or I'll delete my Facebook, and go with Myspace or something again, this is crap! ><"
Many have asked for a choice in swapping over and prefer the old layout. One user wrote: "The Status message should be the very first thing people see on someone's page. ALSO, you forgot to add the VIDEO and LINKS sections on the left under the horribly enlarged profile pics. Any fool knows you don't enlarge a small pic. You may get Jpeg artifacts or a pixilated mess."
Intriguingly green up and down arrows have appeared on the comment board allowing users to rate a comment positively or negatively...will this feature be rolled out in addition or as a replacement for the ‘like' button?
Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on US show 60 Minutes and said of the revamped Profiles: "You can see all the things that you have in common with that person...It gives you this amazing connection with that person in a way that the current version of the profile that we have today just doesn't do."
The public and the media seem to think he came across well, perhaps going some way to change the public's perception of him, as was portrayed in the recent film, The Social Network.
The WSJ said: "The Facebook Co-founder and CEO did great and his Harvard University nemisii, the Winklevoss twins, looked goony and graspy."
Zuckerberg did not collaborate with the film, which portrayed him in an unflattering way, but said on 60 Minutes that he thought it was ‘pretty fun'.
He said: "It's pretty interesting to see what parts they got right and what parts they got wrong. I think that they got every single T-shirt that they had the Mark Zuckerberg character wearing right. I think I actually own those T-shirts. And they got the sandals right."
"But I mean, there are hugely basic things that they got wrong, too. [They] made it seem like my whole motivation for building Facebook was so I could get girls, right? And they completely left out the fact that my girlfriend, I've been dating since before I started Facebook."
