Tuesday, July 29, 2008

New Facebook = New Coke

So the News Report will be coming back soon. I was distracted by starting a company etc... Anyway, we here at TNR are frequent Facebook users, so you can imagine our surprise when we began hearing reports that a "new" facebook had emerged. At first we didn't believe it, but then it happened. New Facebook arrived. So why is it that these big companies, think that their very successful product needs to be updated. New Coke failed. and so will New Facebook. It's clunky and too complicated to navigate. Granted this is a result from Facebook trying to find a way to make money from their platform by incorporating more ads. i.e. If we break up everyones profile into 4 pages then everyone will view 4 pages (with ads) instead of 1 when stalking their ex's. Ultimately this ruins the main draw of Facebook, it's simplicity, the main difference between Facebook and myspace was that Facebook was like a girl you could show your parents and Myspace was like the dirty whore that you occasionally checked out but wouldn't seriously do anything with. It was clean simple and standardized. Now its standardized and kinda clean (looks like a teenagers bedroom with clothes and stuff piled all over) and not at all really that simple. It's like if Apple was like maybe we should "update" the iphone and gave us one of those clunky phones from the 1990's. It's just doesn't make sense, Facebook. you were winning your game, but now you're trying to be myspace. stick with what your good at, or else your sub par profits will be even more sub par, maybe you should just stop overstating them in the first place.

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