Not that I like all the changes Facebook made. I liked the old layout that let you choose whether to view the most recent updates or the most popular updates. The new layout requires you to click "Update Status" just to access the box in which you can type your status, adding a step that should not be necessary. There are other improvements that can be made, and probably will be made in time.
But every time I read complaints about new Facebook layouts and features, I can't help but think about:
- people who don't have much food to eat or clean water to drink
- people who just live with the pain of migraine headaches and abscess teeth because they don't have access to medical care or even basic medicines
- people who have never had a refrigerator, or a microwave, or an air conditioner
- people who are suffering from incurable diseases.
Isn't it great that so many things are going well in our lives that we find it worthwhile to complain about new layouts on a website that isn't even essential to life?
Life is change. Sure, sometimes someone moves our cheese. Sometimes, Facebook moves our cheese. Those who shrug off the changes and go along with the day will accomplish more than those who constantly complain about Facebook.
And if Facebook's changes lived up to their potential and caused us, in droves, to spend less time with the social network, and more time with our families, with our neighbors, or in exercise, we all would end up happier people, too.
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