Inevitably the interfaces for social media sites change as designers and developers think of news ideas to improve the technology and occasionally confound the end user. Recently Facebook and Linkedin changed their interfaces and in the case of Facebook, as always, there was an outcry against the change.Eventually people will get used to it and not think about it, until the next time the interface changes and they have to relearn how to do everything.
Instead of complaining about the changes, it’s better to spend a few minutes learning the new interface and then get back to your regular social media activities. So what do you do, when the interface changes and you login and you don’t know what to do?
First, spend some time exploring the site. Look at each tab, or icon and see where it takes you and what it does. Don’t be afraid to test something new.
Second, determine what changes you need to make to your processes for using that site and document them accordingly. Once you know how to do what you usually do, in the new interface, then its easy to ignore anything, which isn’t relevant to your social media activity.
Those two easy steps will make it very easy for you to learn the new interface and get back to what you usually are doing on those social media sites. And best of all, you don’t need to complain anymore when Facebook or some other site changes its functionality.
