Why does Facebook change?

I remember joining Facebook in October 2006, a few months after it was opened for all public. A friend of mine from England told me about it. Where I came from no one had heard of Facebook yet, so for the first month or so I had very few friends. But after around three months, more and more people had joined, and I had many friends. I also got in touch with people I had not seen or spoken to in a really long time. People I used to have on Myspace or other social networks, and people I used to go to school with. 

I really liked the one feature Facebook had in the beginning. The one where you put in information on where you first met your friends, how long you had known them for, and so on. I remember how furious I got when they took it away, I still miss it. But it seems like I am the only one. I don’t think that changing things on social networks is a good idea. If you first have made something, that is really good. I think you should be careful before changing it. Asking the “people” what they think is would be a better idea. Facebook have done a lot of changes in the almost six years I have been on there. The most resent one was the “Timeline”. I still do not have that. It was said that if you did not change it yourself, that your Facebook would be automatically changed to the timeline feature on a specific date. That did not happen. I still have the old Facebook, although it is not really the old Facebook. The very first facebook I was introduced to. 

I think some of the changes they do are good. Other hanges they did, before the Timeline was introduced they had some features where you could see your status from a year before, and one where it just said “previous updates”. This came and went away before you knew it. Maybe they should make it in a way where the people could decide on what their Facebook page would be like. What features to have, and how their page would look like. 

I have been told that if you first change your profile to the Timeline, you can never go back. Everyone else has the Timeline, and asks me why I do not have it. I will probably follow the rest of the people at some point, but I am a person who does not like things to be decided for me. And I am not that found of changes, at least not if I enjoy things like they are. Changes can be good, and changes can be for the worse, but I guess Facebook is evolving so that people will not lose interest. Maybe they felt like they had to do some changes so that Google Plus would not come and take over. Google Plus did not take over. Not yet at least, and at least not for me. I have very few friends there, and as the looks of it, they will not join any time soon. So Facebook is still the only social network I check every day. After getting my iPhone I was very fond of the feature where you could “check in” places. I use that quite often. 

So in one way I do like some of the changes they do, but I still wish that you as a user could have more say in it.