Whether you're a fan of change or not, it's coming quickly to the social media giant, Facebook.
At their annual developer conference, F8, held Thursday, founder Mark Zuckerburg discussed the new features Facebook intends to roll out.
The conference lasted two hours detailing crucial changes that will affect users.
The first new change that has already been implemented is the new profile design that includes a new version of the news feed and a new Twitter-like ticker.
The news feed aggregates your "friend's" activities like it did in the past, only now it focuses primarily on events and photo sharing.
Also, it aggregates friend activity that it thinks you would be interested in viewing, followed by a section detailing recent friend activity.
In discussing this particular change, many Facebook users are not too happy with this change.
"I feel like it's a good idea, but it's also a bit chaotic," Amanda Cox, SMU junior, said. "It will just take some time to get used to the new features."
Another change Facebook plans to introduce is the allowance of websites and app-makers to contribute content that can be viewed and shared on their platform.
This may be one of the most controversial new changes Facebook plans to include.
They are working with Netflix and Hulu to work to stream video content that you can share and watch movies or shows with your friends.
As if they were getting too carried away, Facebook plans to launch their own version of Internet radio as they are partnering with Spotify and Rhapsody, among others, to allow users to listen and share music.
Facebook plans to commence these changes in a progressive fashion that they have not yet released.
The release of the official timeline of these new changes is sometime next week.
So for now, users should start acquainting themselves with the new layout and stay tuned for more changes to come.
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