Comments on: Facebook Removing ‘Boxes’ This Week, Offering A New Solution In Their Place

By: Rob Singleton

Rob Singleton — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:58:11 +0000

As an online marketer, this is a disastrous move.

This means that items I have places as boxes on the Wall page will all be deleted. The amount of time invested in creating these will all be for nothing, and I will have to recreate them as tabs – which will clutter the page. As you can only have around 5 tabs visible, most of them will not even be seen.

Utterly useless move Facebook, and one which will cause my business great inconvenience.

By: Vim

Vim — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:16:45 +0000

I think that this is a good move by Facebook, i found that boxes made the pages look to cluttered and unpleasant to look at, if anything i would say most people avoid the boxes, tabs would be a good idea to make it look discreet. James i think they will reconstruct the whole site, but they’ll do it in small chunks.

By: James Johnson

James Johnson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:09:38 +0000

I do agree Kyle that it’s a smart move on the part of Facebook, for the simple fact that they need to streamline their processes to avoid confusion. They made privacy concerns go away by streamlining them for users who wanted better control, so why not do the same for overall site structuring.

By: Kyle Lacy

Kyle Lacy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:26:50 +0000

I’m not sure it will affect me either. It does seem like a smart move for Facebook though.