I was just wandering on the web as usual when I bumped into Facebook‘s new User interface and frankly speaking I had the worst 30 minutes with Facebook ever since I signed up on Facebook.

Let me go through why I feel like this about a social network loved by many.

Border Less pages: There are no margins of the page which gives an impressions that someone just threw all the info on the page randomly. Although majority content is still the same (specially the feed) but it gets displayed in a way which literally looks ugly.

Is it Orkut?: click on your name on the top and you will see a page which looks surprisingly  similar to ORKUT (or at least the ORKUT it used to be as i don’t go there anymore).  It consisted of Tabs and a side bar but we will explore the detail later.

Wall: One of the Tabs is wall, umm I actually couldn’t guess what it was as it showed portion of my feed (my activities) and posts on my wall but i couldn’t actually understand what it actually was as it was all mixed up.

Slashing the Apps: Even though FB Apps have been blamed for cluttering Facebook interface but recently they introduced a reasonable feature of Extended profile BUT in this new UI you wont find any App in the first look (Is Facebook really up to slashing applications instead of funding them?).  Although you can click a strangely named Tab “BOXES” and make any application appear on your profile but it will only be visible on side bar and Facebook‘s own feed take the major portion.

Slashing Apps II: Did you know you can make any application appear as a Tab but who gives a damn, why would someone go click a Tab to view one of your added Application.

No Info About You on Your Profile: Yes your info is in the tab and not on your main Profile page, congratulations!

Clean vs Cluttered: Ok the Apps don’t make a mess anymore but Facebook itself has taken the job. Most of it doesn’t make any sense.

Transitions: There are in fact few cool features as well like transitions between images and albums are a lot smoother.

Overall its a disappointment. Its a work in progress and i hope they make it better before they actually switch to it. Click here if you also want to have the pain for your eyes type UI (obviously you can always switch back). For now at least I am switching back :/

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