I know I’m not the only one who thinks Facebook made a mistake with the recent UI update. It looks a lot like Twitter and that’s a bad thing. It’s almost like a downgrade from what used to be a well polished system. I currently use both Twitter and Facebook, but I use them in different ways. Facebook is where I post more specific, well-meaning content. Twitter is simply my thought process as I go about my day.

Here’s a sample of negative feedback from various users over the past few days:
* “The real-time everything stream is much less useful than the old division of status, then posts, etc.”
* “Blocked applications can still post to your news feed.”
* “Your OWN pic appears every time you post an article on your wall.”
* “The images in the status feeds have rounded edges.”
* “Frequent posters push everyone else’s updates off the newsfeed. I want to see at most two or three updates per person, like before.”
* “I hate the ’share’ button. It’s so California.”

As you can see from the comments above, the latest update has not brought the twitter-ish style it had hoped to bring. The same thing happened last time Facebook made an update a year ago, but this time it’s a lot worse, primarily because the user base has quadrupled. Here’s another great article I recommend you read. It states loud and clear that there’s more to these complaints than the usual resistance to change.

No matter what we think, it seems we will be stuck with this version of Facebook until further notice. Let’s just hope we don’t get used to it before it’s too late…