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'Did Facebook just throw their design into a blender?'

You may not like, or even understand, the changes Facebook has made in recent days and announced today. Be reassured: You are so not alone.

YouTube user MsYanniMagic compiled this assortment of comments in a video, set to the theme from "Star Wars," of upset Facebook users. (Warning: It includes bleeped-out NSFW words.) It seems to sum up the sentiments out there:

Dammit Facebook!!!! i got my own life ... i don't need an up to the minute ticker giving me frivolous updates. if i wanna be extra nosey, i'll just go to a person's page and snoop around for myself.

Okay, did Facebook just thrown their design into a blender?

Oh ... yea ... that's real user friendly & self splanitory now ain't it!!!

They must have new engineers.

And there's more. There's a "We Hate Facebook Changes" page on Facebook where you can commiserate with others. And there are some sharing their thoughts through cartoons:

Perhaps this comment, shared on the YouTube video above, sums it up the best:

It's like a Christmas tree with an overcontrolling mother in law fixing ornament placement — That's why she lives 1,200 miles away!!!!

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