Facebook is killing a useful feature with new UI
Well, my Facebook activity level has only grown & matured over time, since I joined it. Spreading events & causes; sharing, commenting on & tagging photos & activities; writing a few notes; leveraging the status updates to help myself and my friends & extended network; and so much more.
Over this period, I have noticed one habit of Facebook, which apparently loads of you might have noticed.
One fine day every three or four months, the UI/UX team of Facebook suddenly gets into the action mode & decides to do a makeover of Facebook by implementing the ‘coolest’ UI/UX features they came up with.
I really appreciate your effort and commitment towards giving us an amazing experience, but give us a break and don’t shove it up our *** by abruptly changing the look and feel of Facebook. While surfing through Facebook lately, I noticed one feature of Facebook – viz. Friends Lists – that Facebook is killing with its own abrupt UI implementations.
Loading ...I’m not sure how many Facebook users use Lists. But those who do, are really benefited by it, because it empowers them to organise their FB contacts.
[Update: In response to Harsh Lunani's comment on Facebook, I realised I need to demonstrate where actually the Facebook Lists feature is hidden! Their UI doesn't tell people about it! So below is a short update to the post.]
Facebook Requests Section
You need to go to the Facebook Requests section on the right side of your Facebook homepage.
Facebook Lists
Here when you want to confirm people, you can add them to multiple lists! This feature is also available when you want to add friends.
Even before this subset of users recovered from the overhead of categorizing loads of our previous friends, whom we had added before the introduction of Facebook Lists, the new Facebook UI has a feature to retract us from leveraging the semantics of the feature.
We are talking about the very well integrated Friend Requests feature on the top bar of Facebook.
Facebook Friend Requests
This new UI element is very very handy and useful. But, it skips out on adding this new friend to a list. So, if I am a user of Facebook Lists, and I am particular about adding my friends to lists, then it is virtually of no use to me. And there is another set of users who are particular, but not always conscious about it. So, even if they started categorizing their friends earlier, they’re now missing out on doing that if they confirm their friends using this bar.
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