Facebook shrinks font size, users complain

November 3, 2010 By Jeffrey Van Camp

Facebook has gently decreased the font size of its news feed. Its users are protesting.

Last night, Facebook made the smallest of changes to its website, and it’s already catching hell for it. The company ever-so-slightly decreased the font size of items in its news feed and already the community is up in arms. In addition to complaining inside Facebook, a number of users have stormed Twitter to font vent, reports TechCrunch.

This is not the first time Facebook users have gotten ornery about a change. Users have protested almost every single change to Facebook since its inception. Though many are complaining about how small the news feed is today, a few years ago they didn’t want it to exist at all. More recently, the community was up in arms when Facebook made news feed updates relevance-based instead of chronologically listed.

Facebook makes a lot of sketchy moves, especially where it relates to user privacy, but decreasing its font size is not one of them. Luckily, no huge groups have formed to combat this fontastrophe. Are users crying wolf? Or are you generally displeased with the size of your news feed?

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Keya Jahan at 2:20am 27th May 2011 Dear sir, face book administration i am Keya Jahan i have use face book since days but sir it is my painful duty to inform u that some 1 has created a fake id by using my name & photo.FB is a social networking site & to creat fake id is a violate crime according to the rules & regulation of FB so my humble request to you is to close the fake FB id that has created by using my name & photo for your kind information my name is Keya Jahan my e mail jahan.keya@yahoo.com Fake ID information Israt Jahan Keya mail ID israt_keya@yahoo.com
Keya Jahan at 2:19am 27th May 2011 Dear sir, face book administration i am Keya Jahan i have use face book since days but sir it is my painful duty to inform u that some 1 has created a fake id by using my name & photo.FB is a social networking site & to creat fake id is a violate crime according to the rules & regulation of FB so my humble request to you is to close the fake FB id that has created by using my name & photo for your kind information my name is Keya Jahan my e mail jahan.keya@yahoo.com Fake ID information Israt Jahan Keya mail ID israt_keya@yahoo.com
Jimmy UK at 5:54am 5th November 2010 It's the worst thing FB have ever done, and thats saying something. Control + is no good because that just makes the whole page bigger. Sometimes I think thses changes are made by geeks trying to justify their employment, I doubt they ever actually use the site. Totally user unfriendly. Dire.
steve at 5:50am 5th November 2010 it's barely smaller and still completely readable. stop your complaining.
Susan at 10:01pm 4th November 2010 I can't 'ctrl +' again. It will throw everything out of proportion. It will take forever to arrow over left and right to read everything. Please bring it back to normal for everybody.
Gioia at 4:48pm 4th November 2010 It's miserable. It's far too small and my news feed shows errors in layout sometimes since the change. Why can't they leave things the hell alone when they're fine???
EloveA at 11:02am 4th November 2010 Freaking stop denying that you need glasses and get over your bad self. I can read it perfectly fine, it seems like everyone on facebook hates change- I wonder how Obama made it into office..
Too Old at 6:17am 4th November 2010 ‎'ctrl +' works however is throws things out of proportion and ends up making everything ugly.
pupski at 2:10pm 3rd November 2010 it is too small - I can't read it !
St. James at 11:23am 3rd November 2010 It is too small. It looks wrong when compared to the size of everything else on the page, just throwing off my proportions. Plus, its really too small to read comfortably. I lost my glasses a long time ago, so yeah...
Kim Hjortholm at 8:56am 3rd November 2010 Way to small font on facebook wall ..... can be fixed by using CTRL and "+" simultaneously
nodnarb at 8:31am 3rd November 2010 There are a few Facebook groups forming. Search Facebook for "Font Is Too Damn Small!" and join the group