When Facebook Cheated Us...

We were quiet, We were uniformed. But they did it !!!

We all loved the new Facebook profile (except few, for some unstated reasons). We switched to it, we talked about it, we shared it, we appreciated it.

But Facebook had a very different plan.

Facebook introduced a smaller font size to its News Feed about a month ago. The lack of communication from Facebook while making a significant change is sadly nothing new. I don't think many of us noticed it but there are many people who were very much upset with this change. But why did they do it??? Just because they wanted to give more strain to our eyes? Not exactly!! It infact was a pre-requisite for their big bang !!

Then, they introduced Facebook's New Profile and promoted it as much as they can. But they cheated us by displaying all the benefits of the new profile.

But they didn't mention anything about some other changes.

They took away our personal social space of updates and gave it to their advertisement block

In the old profile, the ads had a photo with text below it and now, the text is alongside the photo. The old profile had an ad-width of about 160 pixels while the new edition now clocks in around 245 pixels, 53%(approx) increase in ad-width. The ads used to be around 230 pixels in height but now they are around 140 pixels. This makes Facebook possible to show more number of ads above the fold. The overall size of ads has not changed a lot but surely they are more denser and grab users' attention(generally distract) more quickly.

In addition to this, the text size of ads are same whereas the text size of news feeds has been reduced.

The most interesting part is that, once you have switched to new profile there no way to go back, unlike others who give option to revert back changes(like Orkut).

Its so amazing that Facebook is least bothered about their users while considering majorly on revenues. The causes are unknown but some people like Shel, Israel have asked Mark Zuckerberg to step down from CEO post of Facebook.

It seems that Facebook is now acting as anti-Google...

"Don't be evil" - the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of Google.

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