One of the changes that most users are upset about is the new ticker feature that takes stalking to a new level.  The ticker allows you to be nosy on your friends without them knowing. You can actively see what your friends do on Facebook right at this exact moment. Yeah that’s not creepy at all. So you’ll know when your friend adds Justin Bieber and  Britney Spears on their favorites, or when your ex is single again. Some website have advice to ways you can “kill” the ticker. By that they mean to make it disappear but that doesn’t always work out.

Another change you may or may not have noticed is your news feed, which is now called ” Top news “, is a mix of the old “Top-News” and “Most Recent.” If you don’t check your page frequently, it keeps you up to date with what Facebook “guesses” you would be interested in, from the last time you were on. When asked about the new changes, Junior Bradley Moody replied ” I wasn’t upset, but I don’t like it.”  Some users are more willing to move on than others. Senior Tate Conrad said, ” I don’t like the new changes but I’m going to stick with Facebook unless they  start charging.”  The same users that are complaining now are probably the same ones that were complaining about the past changes and the changes before that. Just like the past Facebook changes, users will either move on and forget about in two weeks or delete their account.

Well, the new changes are for their benefit. Now users don’t have  to do much unnecessary clicking because there are less places to click and most of everything is in the same place. Facebook is trying to make things easier for its users and steal back its users lost to Google+ and other social media websites.

Along with the classy new facelift comes rumors and chain letters.  People are making the assumption that if Facebook is changing then they will start charging users for their service.  Another thing that you may have noticed (if you have more than 50 friends) is that Facebook will be charging its users the next morning according to what people said on your news feed- hat’definitely not the most reliable source to believe. Yet another urban legend parents tell their kids to scare them into not getting on Facebook? I think so.  Even though it clearly says it on the homepage ” Free and always will be “,  some people still fell for the ” IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOU WALL BEFORE MIDNIGHT YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. ”  or even the more famous  threat ” PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED.”

Even though it is obvious that Facebook is the king of the social media at the moment, it still has to compete with Twitter and Google+ for respect.  They are trying to maintain their top-tier status by constantly changing but is that pushing more users away or back to MySpace? Sophomore Ryan Baileay replied ” If they left it alone no one would be upset.” With all the changes Facebook is doing, it may be in danger to losing some of its users to Google+ and other social media websites.