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So if you use Facebook you can safely avoid Facebook for ~3 days after it's launched as every complains about it changing and then gets over it. I don't think

So if you use Facebook you can safely avoid Facebook for ~3 days after it's launched as every complains about it changing and then gets over it. I don't think I've ever seen a service that gets as much grief for making (usually positive) UX changes. It's easy to joke about, but even tiny things get spotted and people seem pretty hostile to the change.

mschuster91 13y ago
Because there's no try-out or restore available. On a computer or a cellphone I mostly can stick with (or downgrade to) "old versions" of the software if I do not like the UI - just as happened with MS Vista and now with Win8, or the Office 2003-2007 UI remodeling. On a website, the only hope users have is massive outcries and shitstorming, even though its known that Facebook never listens to its users.
miahi 13y ago
That's just because the way to complain is built-in. Google can do whatever stupid thing they want to Gmail's UX with way less complaints - because what will you do, write an e-mail about it? :) Also because the average Facebook user is not really computer literate, and such an user develops UI eidetic memory rather than functionality thinking - so moving a button leaves them clueless.