Farhad Manjoo article from the other day on Slate with the best explanation of what I disliked so much about the Facebook re-design: they Twitterized the site. I mean, if I wanted to be on Twitter, I'd be on frikkin' Twitter.
And the article is still worth reading even though events have caught up with his point that, well, site owners will do what they want to with their redesigns and you might as well get used to them cos they're not gonna change. This just in: Facebook caves!. Victory!! (can I get that angry mob that was running across the bottom of the screen in Jon Stewart's AIG segment in here?). Well, not so much caves as agrees to take seriously users' complaints about the Twittifying of the site. Nothing has changed yet. We'll see how long it takes before some of the counter-tweaks start showing up.