Facebook on Wednesday unveiled revamped profile pages overhauled to make the hot social-networking Web site faster, less cluttered and more spam-resistant.
The new design lets Facebook members use tabs to give priority to fresh pictures, messages, or “feeds” on main profile pages and compartmentalise mini applications and “static” information such as curriculum vitae.
The changes are motivated by feedback from users as well as a trend toward people flooding the Internet with digital content such as videos, pictures, and musings they want to share, according to Facebook’s vice president of marketing Chamath Palihapitiya.
Outside developers that write fun, functional or hip software applications for Facebook users will get to tinker with the new format beginning this week so they can “tweak” programs to fit the new profile design.
The more than 70 million people worldwide that use Facebook will get chances to “opt-in” to redesigned profile pages during a “beta” test phase in the coming weeks.
The redesign is “in flux” and the final outcome will depend on input from members, according to Facebook’s director of platform product marketing Ben Ling.
Popular mini applications such as “walls” and “graffiti” which let friends post playful messages on each others’ profiles will be under a “feed” tab for “widgets” that constantly stream updated information.
The use of online picture sharing services such as Yahoo’s Flickr at Facebook is “really quite staggering” so a “Photos” tab is devoted for images, according to Facebook engineer Mark Slee.
An “Applications” tab will provide more control of settings of programs chosen for profiles, curtailing problems with software that secretly sets itself as a priority or sends itself to users’ friends.
Palihapitiya said Facebook is willing to work with other Internet firms, including Google, to make it possible for members of online communities to freely move their personal content between Web sites.
“We want users’ information to be private, secure and respected,” Palihapitiya said. – AFP
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