Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

I am wondering what will those creative Facebook users go through when they learn that the social network is about to slice and dice your profile pictures. I know its nerve wrecking. Not for people like me who just add their own photo taken randomly, but the artistic people whose photos won them a lot of praise would be cursing this.

The social network plans to reduce the size of the profile pictures in the coming week and at the same time enable you to upload larger file sizes. While this does sound bad, I personally think there are some useful updates planned to be made in its photo application. To me it isn’t anything surprising, given that the social network is doing some redesign of the entire site, we have seen some changes in the homepage, well that’s not the only place on Facebook where it’s happening. The redesign would most definitely include profile and fan pages as well as those for groups. The idea is to make the platform appear cleaner and more effective. The tabs themselves have been reduced from 720 to 520 pixels, meaning that the developers out there want the content more condensed.

When I mentions redesign, I usually include the policies and how the things work around on the social network. We have reported already how Facebook is going more independent, from Removing Microsoft banner ads on the site to having its very own data centers. Which I personally find quite positive. As for the shrinking of images, well it might not create problems for any. I mean someone who can have a custom photo for the current size can also alter it to fit the current size.

What is your take on the whole redesign thing? Do you like Facebook making all these changes every now and then?