Since Facebook launched its new home page design they’ve been battered by community comments objecting to the redesign and the new ‘Twitter’ like updates.
In a blog comment from Facebook Product Director Chris Cox, he states:

“Whenever we build something new or tweak something old, our motivation is the same: to help you share with the people you care about and find out what’s happening with them. Before we launch any new product, it first must pass a process of design, development and testing with a more limited user audience. If those results are satisfactory, we then release it for all of you to use. We know that no amount of testing is as valuable as what you have to say. For this reason, we will always look to you, our users, to tell us what is working and what isn’t so we can continually make improvements.”

So what are those improvements and when should we expect to see them?

Over the next couple of weeks, Facebook are pledging to add more control and relevance in the stream – which specifically means

• Live updating: so no need to refresh
• Photo tags: adding photos tagged of your friends to the stream
• More choices for applications: the chance for you to stop seeing how many of your friends have ‘taken a quiz’

The facebook chaps are also planning to help us find things more easily by.

• Moving requests to the top of the right column
• Easier way to create a Friends List filter

This is the second time in as many months that Facebook users have pushed the social network to modify changes – and this, more than anything is likely to be the reason that the ‘book continues to do thrive in the ever more competitive social environment – they remember why they’re in business and respond to what there customers tell them.