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Four out of five Facebook users have yet to move to a redesigned version of the site which launched earlier this summer. It's an overwhelming rejection of a project that was said to be Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's "baby." A Facebook flack tried to put a positive spin on the stat: "Around 20 percent of our users have now migrated to the new platform and it has been received well after people get used to it."
The redesign is one of those things we actually like, so at first I was a bit surprised to learn that users hate it so much. I asked a non-tech scene friend whether he uses the old or new design. His answer: "Old, because the new one is ugly and annoying." And then I remembered that Facebook users also hated the News Feed so much when it came out that 587,715 of them joined a group called "Students against Facebook News Feed" in just one day. Expect similar riots in September when Facebook will force its users to migrate to the new platform.
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