Ninety-four percent of the nearly 800 000 Facebook users who have voted in a poll on the site said they do not like the changes rolled out in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n
Only six percent said they approve the redesign.<\/p>\n
Among those writing comments alongside the poll, user Nik McCarthy said the change "Pretty much sucks. Better before."<\/p>\n
"I was still figuring it out and it changed," said Melissa Reed, and user Mark Wysocki wrote that the design was too cluttered, with "way too much information."<\/p>\n
"Bring back the old style," he urged.<\/p>\n
"Hard to navigate," said Chanel Chartrand. "Really don’t like it."<\/p>\n
Mara Soriano was among the minority who liked the changes. "I think it’s fantastic," she wrote.<\/p>\n
As TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington wrote, Facebook maybe should have heeded the old saw: "Don’t ask a question you don’t want the answer to."<\/p>\n
Changes to the home page include making the status update question "What’s on your mind?" adding real-time Twitter-like chatter and tools that let people organise and filter messages or updates from those listed as "friends."<\/p>\n
The fast-growing Facebook boasts more than 175 million members and founder Mark Zuckerberg believes the number will reach 200 million by the end of this year.<\/p>\n
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