For those who haven’t already heard, Facebook implemented some new features yesterday, and they suck. There’s just no other way to put it. Campus Progress wrote a good overview of the whole thing.

But I think Fred Stutzman said it best:

When social software is adopted by the community, that software begins to have a responsibility in (and to) the community. That software must play by the rules of the community, and it must not deviate too strongly from the norms of the community. A generation of college students are socialized on the Facebook, and today Facebook went and changed everything. Imagine going in to your favorite local coffeeshop and finding out they no longer serve lattes, because it is user friendly and efficient to only serve brewed coffee. If you’re a fan of lattes, wouldn’t you have wished they’d asked your opinion first? Facebook’s users feel like that today, except we’re not talking about lattes, we’re talking about their identity.

Way to ruin a good thing, Facebook.