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Hate new Facebook? Want a dislike button? Why even bother!

The last days many of my Facebook friends have joined groups like "We HATE the new Facebook" and "If 1 million join this group Facebook will give us a dislike button". Other popular groups are groups saying that Facebook will be a paid service and yada yada yada. Even if some of us who knows, or at least think we know, how things work in the social media hemisphere would claim that Facebook will never be a paid service and there will never be a dislike button. It is as simple as that.

Why no dislike button then? Simply because no other social networks or sharing sites have them. In the happy and jolly world of networking we aren't interested in what we don't like, only what we like. Facebook will never be a paid service. Period. People starting groups like these are only fishing for group members (for a reason I don't understand) and Facebook is earning enough money without charging for their services. Nuff said. But when it comes to the constant complaining on new features and updates, it's about something else.

First, it is a sign of people caring. They care about their Facebook activities as if it was life itself, which in a way should be seen as a success from a developer point of view, but also as something rather sad. 300 million user and increasing, is a sign of Facebook being a phenomena the world has never seen before. If at least half of these users use Facebook on a daily basis as a communication platform with their friends and family, there will be complications when things are changed. Same thing will occur when my mum comes to visit me and one morning I can't find my ways around my kitchen shelves. She has simply cleaned up my kitchen as if it was hers. Of course it will make me mad and of course I will yell at her telling her to leave my kitchen alone.

Secondly, most of those complaining about every little change that is implemented into Facebook, are most likely to be people who are new to social networking and social media and Internet applications overall. Perhaps you aren't even interested in how things work and perhaps you haven't realized that even a product like Facebook will always be under constant revision. New things will be added, changed and improved and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. And at the end of the day, we will all settle with it and continue with our lives.

Perhaps the complaining ultimately is a good thing, but I would say is just a waste of energy. The devs will always think they know better than the users and even if they say they listen to us, they already have a plan they will stick to. Save your energy, don't buy everything you hear and remember that in a week you have forgotten about the new Live Feed and you will see it as something natural.

Facebook is constantly changing. Back in 2004, it looked like this:

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