Social Updates

My answer is NO, I don’t want it!

I just received a request from a Facebook Friend, to join this group of people asking Facebook to implement colored profiles. Their aim is to get 500,000 members that agree to let Facebook users choose the color they want their profiles appear to others. And then they will submit their petition to Facebook.com staff. They have suggested color schemes too and uploaded photos of colored profiles so everybody can see how they would look.

Anyways, on its first week, Feb 22-29, they got around 42,000 people joining their group, and of course they are still inviting. But I certainly don’t agree with this kind of request, although changing the color theme seemed cool because it reflects our personality.

The reason I love browsing profiles in facebook is because of the uniformity of color. When I do this on other social networking sites, like Friendster.com , or Myspace.com the different styles and designs of each profile irritate my eyes. Even if the user has retained the default style, a profile with a different color irritates me.

I really hope Facebook would just maintain its simple and professional look. They can make smoother edges or rounded buttons but just keep the profile’s color the same for everybody. Maybe you can just add the option to change the color of the whole Facebook account? Browsing profiles wouldn’t be that irritating, but at least we still have expressed our personalities every time we log in to our account, just like changing the color of yahoo email address.