Dylan Schiemann

A number of Facebook users are petitioning to keep the old Facebook design. I switched to the new design when I first noticed the option, and it is such a significant improvement over the old design that I would consider switching back to be a bit silly.

It’s a cleaner, more efficient, more informative design, that uses more of your screen space if it’s available. It is concise and refined by comparison to the old Facebook design. At the end of the day, a lot of people don’t like change, hence their desire to petition.

The outcome may not make the petitioners happy in the short term, but the bottom line in my opinion is that a complex social platform like Facebook cannot afford to maintain two diverging platforms indefinitely, and we’ll see the old platform removed shortly.