Image via CrunchBase, source unknown

So, Facebook has finally shown how little they care about the needs and wants of their users, and completely switched to the new design today, no more workarounds. I’ve not gone and deleted my account, but I’m instead refusing to access Facebook at all for a month or so. After that time, if they’ve not accepted what is asked of them, I’ll obliterate my account.

This puts more importance into building an acceptable distributed social network framework for websites, so that we won’t suffer the whims of portal-style social networks any longer. The closest we should get to those portal sites are aggregators like FriendFeed (which I also use).

Related articles by Zemanta

• Facebook Isn't A Social Network. And Stop Trying to Make New Friends There (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
• Fans of the Old Facebook Design Flock to Developer Accounts
• Millions of Users Dumbfounded by New Facebook Design