March 20, 2009 by James Oliver
For a group of people who are supposed to be right at the vanguard of modernity, Facebook users aren’t half stuck in their ways. Every time the webmasters change so much as a hair on their beloved Facebook’s head they go into hysterics, suddenly ‘I hate Facebook’ groups are set up left, right and centre, by people apparently unaware of the irony of setting up Facebook groups to denounce Facebook and there’s a bit of a furore for a few weeks or so. Then, they promptly get over it.
A couple of weeks ago Facebook implemented a range of changes which included a Twitter style, real-time news feed. It’s this in particular that’s angered the Facebook faithful, it’s early days yet but it seems like this is the biggest backlash a Facebook change has ever encouraged.
So what does this all mean for Facebook?.. Well, nothing really. Sorry Facebook protestors, but unless a bunch of you are really angry enough to switch social networking sites then Mark Zuckerberg isn’t going to worry too much. Considering the level to which people now depend on Facebook to organise their lives, I’d say this is pretty unlikely.
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