Facebook's New Profile Design

Come on, you know you have those Facebook friends whose profile pages look like their MySpace exploded: their profile takes forever to load, their page is six “page downs” long (well, longer, but you’ve never actually made it to the bottom) and they never met an app they didn’t like. Well, Facebook is trying to do something about that.

Facebook has announced that they’ll be redesigning the layout and functionality of their profile pages. The new profile pages, to be unveiled in the coming weeks, will feature information divided into tabs for Feed, Info, Photos and Applications:
previews of the new design as well as a used as a browser toolbar as well, I think it currently looks like site-specific, internal navigation.

The design is supposed to be more useful to users and developers. At a meeting today with Facebook, Beacon). (Though Facebook Platform didn’t seem too unpopular.) Perhaps the bigger question here is how this will integrate with Business Week pointed out, this doesn’t push Facebook as an advertising medium. But, on the other hand, isn’t the lesson we learned with Beacon that Facebook should be about the users, first and foremost?