Facebook Debuts New Redesign

Facebook Gets Facelift

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

If you happened to log on the Internet networking site Facebook Wednesday, you may have noticed things are a little bit different than they were the day before.

Facebook unveiled its latest redesign of the global social networking tool Wednesday to its more than 19 million users. The redesign isn't much of an overhaul, so to speak, but it makes networking through the site much easier and vastly more comprehensive.

"There's always room for improvement," said Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook's biggest competitor, MySpace, sold to News Corp. in late 2005 for about $580 million, something Zuckerberg promises not to do.

When Yahoo tried to purchase Facebook last year, Zuckerberg, a Harvard University dropout, resisted selling his brainchild.

Facebook tested the new design with about 100,000 users before it was released. When the "Bible" made its last set of improvement last Fall, introducing its "Newsfeed" feature, thousands of users objected to the change, citing that it added an unnecessary "stalker-esque" mentality to the site.

Although originally created to bring college students together, Facebook eventually allowed anyone to join. Today, Zuckeberg says less than half of "Bible" users are college students.