Wait, Do People Really Want To Use Facebook Like *This*?
It's an application layer that takes over Google's
Mark Zuckerberg says the goal of the
This new design for Facebook is, according to Zuckerberg, "the best version of Facebook there is."
I haven't had a chance to play with Facebook Home, so what I'm about to say is somewhat irresponsible, but, really? This is the best version of Facebook?
In the demo it looked like a bad screen saver with images and updates panning across the page. To see more updates from your buds, you have to swipe from right to left. That means you get information one swipe at a time.
In the current version of Facebook, you scroll through the News Feed and get a few bits of information at a time.
Facebook knows what it's doing. It obsessively studies user behavior. So, I'm fairly certain it thinks this is how people want to consume the News Feed.
But, from where I'm sitting this seems like a terrible way to consume the News Feed. And if Cover Flow, as Facebook calls it, is not good, then there's almost no reason to use Facebook Home.
Here's how it works. What do you think?
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