Facebook to redesign profiles

According to PC World, Facebook is going to push ahead with a major redesign and renovations to the profile set up on the social networking site. The main idea behind the redesign is to reduce profile clutter. I applaud this decision 100%, because as a Facebook user, I have been noticing a trend of too many applications on numerous profiles. From the PC World article: “The redesign will attempt to unclutter the profiles by redistributing their components to different tabs. Current plans call for four main tabs — for the activity feed, basic member information, photos and applications. Members will be able to add more application tabs. In addition, the activity feed tab will feature a new authoring control panel, called the Publisher Box, for creating and posting content. Meanwhile, the profile will have at the top a new horizontal navigation line with drop-down menus for its core features. ”

Sounds good to me. One of the things that made me appreciate Facebook over MySpace was the fact that profiles were actually somewhat organized. Recently, the thousands of applications on Facebook have run a little wild. This new addition of “tabs” will hopefully improve all of this.

-Kolametal