Facebook Homepage Gets a Makeover

Source: AP

Facebook gets a minor face-lift for its sixth birthday moving friend request, messages, and notifications to the top of the page.

Facebook is redesigning its site yet again, this time to better emphasize applications, games and search. The latest evolution continued Friday after Facebook started rolling the changes out late Thursday, the company’s sixth birthday. Links and items have moved around the home page as Facebook tries to streamline navigation and make games and apps stand out more.

The world’s largest online social network has continuously morphed its home page as it’s grown from a closed hub for college students to a Web and mobile destination for 400 million people worldwide. Past changes have sparked protests from many users, though Facebook says it makes them to serve its audience better. Facebook says that it conducts months of testing and that many users request such changes.

With the latest redesign, links to friend requests, messages and comment notifications are no longer scattered around and now reside on the top of the page. The search box is more prominent, as is the site’s chat feature. Users can now see friends who are currently online without clicking on a link. This doesn’t include all friends, only the ones they communicate with often.

There are also new links on the left that take users to online dashboards where they can organize games and applications and find new ones by seeing what their friends use.

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Joe Lachiana at 4:18pm 5th February 2010 making sense and facebook do not mix.
Ian Bell at 4:12pm 5th February 2010 Agreed, kind of tired of having a new change every other month.
surveying tools at 4:04pm 5th February 2010 New links on the left that take users to online dashboards where they can organize games and applications and find new ones by seeing what their friends use
Jason at 3:56pm 5th February 2010 I really don't get why they feel the need to launch new pages with even more bugs than the last version. The previous version has had several issues for me, mostly revolving around the chat system. 90% of the people I know would prefer they go back to the very first layout - you know, the one that made sense?