I recently did a terrible thing. A crime that can not be put on trial by a federal court, but possibly by some of my readers. On April 8, 2012 I did the unthinkable– I reactivated my Facebook.

I had a good reason to do so, though. I recently went on a trip to East Troy, Wisconsin for a leadership conference. The people I met there were amazing, and they got me to reactivate my account. I must admit that I am quite happy to have the social networking site back for my pleasure. I may be coming off as a hypocrite, but most of the time I do. Facebook is a useful thing, and a beautiful part of the cyber revolution.

In the time since I last had a Facebook there have been some monumental changes. The site has edited their API Graph layout almost at a severe level. The “theater” viewing setting for pictures has changed yet again. It now shows all the photo information on the right side of the famous “black-box” that shows up upon clicking on a photograph. I think that the developers of Facebook mean well with all of their updates, but to be honest this doesn’t help site users as much as they may think. The constant changes make it difficult for users to get the full experience out of Facebook. As a returning member, I especially had trouble with this.

The new cover photo feature on the new timeline is really hard to change. The timeline gives you the option to hover over your current image and change it through your albums. The problem is that the albums that it shows are not as complete as they are through your photo page. I spent fifteen minutes that I will never get back trying to figure it out, and never got to it. I became very disappointed.

The creators of Facebook, and the web developers that are currently working to improve the site are clearly mistaken in a few aspects. The first and most important being that change can be good, but too much change may be upsetting to some. I am a person who sees the internet as being a vast sea of infinite opportunities. The developers of Facebook, and many other websites surely see this as well as they continuously make changes to their platform to seemingly improve the users experience. Most users of these sites don’t see that. They see it as the man trying to ruin their fun. They constantly complain in their statuses about how Facebook is ruining itself, but can’t seem to log off the site to tell actual people that.

In lingo that these users will understand: That’s “awk”.