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New Facebook Profiles: Twitterers React To The Revamp (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post     First Posted: 12/06/10 10:47 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:15 PM ET

On Sunday, Facebook announced the latest revamp to its profile pages.

The new profile page reorganizes users' information and features key personal information--such as workplace, hometown, date of birth, education history and more--at the top of the page, along with recently tagged photos (PICTURES). Other new features aim to make the Facebook profile a more complete sketch of a user's personal interests and connections.

Facebook has already started rolling out these new features, and most users will see the changes by next month. To learn more, visit our overview of Facebook's new look. You can also upgrade your profile now by clicking here.

How will Facebook's 500 million users react to these changes? We've compiled a slideshow of early opinions from tweeters. Take a look (below) to see what users have to say so far, then share your thoughts in the comments.

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On Sunday, Facebook announced the latest revamp to its profile pages. The new profile page reorganizes users' information and features key personal information--such as workplace, hometown, date of ...
On Sunday, Facebook announced the latest revamp to its profile pages. The new profile page reorganizes users' information and features key personal information--such as workplace, hometown, date of ...
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tomjones
18 Fans
07:40 AM on 12/07/2010
Facebook new features for seeking the users profile is crop. I won’t use it. I am waiting for Google Me to move over. digitalundivide.com
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Danek Greori
149 Fans
07:24 AM on 12/07/2010
What kind of person is so entrenched in any social networking website that they actually have strong opinions about changes made to the graphical layout of their profile page. It used to be based on 2 columns, now it's based on 3 columns. Is this what counts as news? Is this really what our public dialog has come to?

I have a FaceBook profile so I know when people die, disappear, or have some other unfortunate mishap, and to give advertisers and creditors misinformation so they can't contact me in real life. It's a website, it's not an "invention" (Believe it or not people, sites like FaceBook existed BEFORE FaceBook), it's not even innovative. People need to rediscover the other parts of the web, or more importantly rediscover their humanity and the world outside.
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arcanepsyche
60 Fans
01:16 PM on 12/07/2010
Just because we pay attention to things like this doesn't mean we DON'T pay attention to a multitude of other things in our lives as well. Your argument is shallow at best.
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Danek Greori
149 Fans
05:38 AM on 12/09/2010
"Shallow"? I think you need to reaffirm yourself with your vocabulary. I doubt that anyone who has the time or will power to sit around and have emotions as strong as "anger" or "discontent" with the visual layout of the FaceBook.com profile is paying attention to a "multitude of other things" in their life. If they were, they would care about the visual look of their profile because in comparison to the rest of the things in every day life, how your FaceBook profile looks is amazingly trivial at best.
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noob1
30 Fans
06:36 AM on 12/07/2010
Twitter, Facebook, never heard of em? eh?
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Amondale
1801 Fans
06:30 AM on 12/07/2010
This is an appropriat­e surprise for someone that just deleted their Facebook account. FB is a sterile communicat­ion channel that gives the false impression one is staying "in touch" with people. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Broadcasting your recent thought or activity is not staying in touch, it's a form of macro broadcasting in the Information Age, Amondale Headline News, if you will.

I get the whole communication channel aspect of FB and argued in favor of it over the years. However, the ability to know what family and friends are doing on vacation or what charity walk-a-thon they're attending is hardly worth the trade-off in the loss of one's personal online "space" and privacy concerns.
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arcanepsyche
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01:17 PM on 12/07/2010
If you understand how to use FB's privacy settings, there is NO issue! And the way you use Facebook has nothing to do with the value of the site itself.
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Amondale
1801 Fans
04:37 PM on 12/07/2010
LOL, mkay. Thanks for the insults, Abby.
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nigele8992
27 Fans
03:13 PM on 12/07/2010
lil too much whining
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Amondale
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04:37 PM on 12/07/2010
LOL, mkay. Thanks for the insults, Abby.
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sweetanny
7 Fans
01:26 AM on 12/07/2010
Anyone out there with any ideas for how to say "NO!" to the FB herd when they ask, demand that you create a profile? I have not come up with one they understand. And can anyone help me understand why I'd want to? To visit their pages? Seems sort of... creepy to me.
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Czarcasm
6 Fans
11:09 PM on 12/06/2010
Are these real Tweets? There are hardly any spelling errors.
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missmydog
8 Fans
11:07 PM on 12/06/2010
Well I'm not on Facebook and I'm still alive. What does that tell you?
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freedom4allau
419 Fans
11:38 PM on 12/06/2010
You and me both.
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sweetanny
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11:44 AM on 12/07/2010
I miss my dog too.
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JCCross
277 Fans
10:43 PM on 12/06/2010
I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that facebook's profile page has always been a non-starter for me. I have no interest in stating - or sharing - what my favorite picture, music, book, or anything else is... and so they can move all the pretty pictures around all they want. It won't make a difference to me. Frankly, I could care less if someone likes the same music I do. What I DO find offensive, is that the new profile page spotlights advertisements much more prominently (or so I've been told?)
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Natuska
290 Fans
07:49 PM on 12/06/2010
Yawn. I can't remember the last time I looked at anyone's profile on FB.
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freedom4allau
419 Fans
11:39 PM on 12/06/2010
I never have.
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deeppeace
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605 Fans
07:22 PM on 12/06/2010
Is that why I haven't been able to get onto FB all day?
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OC4Obama4Pres
360 Fans
06:18 PM on 12/06/2010
Meh
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RedDog79
303 Fans
05:12 PM on 12/06/2010
This guy reminds me of Steve Jobs. As we go through the years, assuming facebook is around, it will be interesting to see if he starts to look like Jobs (no accounting for Jobs health) I'm talking about how greed can change a person.
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