web interfaces: the new facebook

Web interfaces can shape user experiences. They can, for example, influence the nature of debate that takes place - say in an online forum (see Wright and Street in New Media and Society). When a familiar website changes its web page design it can have a big impact - and confuse people. What do you think to the new facebook design? A lot of people have joined a group to say they hate it and they want to be able to choose whether they use the old or the new design. When I set this blog up I chose blogger. In hindsight, Word press is IMO a better software tool: it is aesthetically nicer and have more functionality built in (e.g. stats tracker). I don't change because, for now, the negatives outweight the positives. And that's the danger for Facebook. Will it stay the dominant social networking tool or is becoming too annoying?