Recently Facebook users found themselves staring at another dramatic change in Facebooks layout, igniting yet another round of “change it back” protests from a vocal segment of the userbase. While it would be foolish to think Facebook will never change things again, Facebook has made it clear they intend to do a lot more in the near future. Just take a look at the Developers’ Roadmap on the official Facebook Developer Wiki.
I understand if you don’t want to scratch your head over the details of the Roadmap, so here’s a rundown of my interpretation of the Roadmap.
Instead of having a simple page where you can quickly knock down requests for applications (whether accept or reject), application requests will be pushed to your inbox. These requests will be divided between the sort of messages you can currently receive from apps and a filtered “invites” section of the inbox. “Notifications” will be compressed into your homepage, as a number next to the source application on the left sidebar. Additionally, the boxes tab is going to eventually say goodbye and applications will be forced to work with profile tabs if they want to have “permanent” content on your profile.
Now that you’ve been warned, don’t be surprised when the changes come. Though please refrain from sending me a bunch of “change it back” group and page requests.
