Facebook gets redesigned

Still rolling out apparently, I'm not getting the redesigned facebook.

I'm not one of the lucky few who gets to see it, unfortunately.

Thus... Screenshots pl0x.

As opposed to previous minor redesigns, this time Facebook has complete lost it.

Basically what you're missing out on is "subscribing" to non-friends a-la-Twitter, horrible page layouts, numerous bugs, and way too many options and configurations.

No Facebook, I do not want to manage my friends as if this is some kind of war room. Stop it.

And someone please let Zuck know that we're not in 1999 anymore. Floating frames and detached sidebars are a UX abomination.

Facebook is panicking and shooting in every direction.

I hate to jump on a hater bandwagon, because I genuinely am a proponent of innovation, but: really?

I think part of the usage of a web product should be to put you in a state of ease and enjoyment, not anxiety. The new FB puts me in an anxious state. I feel I'm always on the verge of missing something.

Twitter I feel has balanced the checking-in anxiety issue with a compelling product experience, and I always felt that Facebook allowed me to maneuver through the information flow at a pace I wanted.

Now, I'm presented with a realtime feed and a curated feed within the same context. I just get an anxious feeling looking at it.

I think the technology is amazing behind it. To be able to do realtime information flow and processing on this scale is astounding. But I think product developers need to focus not only one the technology that drives the user experience, but the emotion they are trying to instill on the users.

They took away the ability to show all events in chronological order? Ugh. I was trying to stay away from G+ for ethical reasons, but this... This might just drive me back.