Facebook Users Who Hate Change Making Facebook Developers Hate Facebook Users

September 17, 2008

By Vasanth Sridharan

In the old days, Facebook users who didn’t like changes to their site (news feed, Beacon) would register their discontent by… joining a Facebook group. But now they’re getting downright feisty:  Some 800,000 users, desperate to keep their old profiles instead of accepting the site’s redesign, have created developer accounts  — presumably to use a workaround that will let them toggle back and forth between the new and old sites.

Inside Facebook points out that

the feature exists for developers because they need to maintain their applications on both sites while the new version is being rolled out to everyone. But here’s the catch — in a week or so, when Facebook is finally done migrating all their users over to the new site, they’ll shut down that option for developers, too.    Read More

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