I always hate it when an application that I use on a regular basis suddenly adopts a new redesign.  Even if it’s just slight, at first glance I’ll always dislike it.  But then… I’ll grow to adore the new design and wonder how I ever used to the old format.

Facebook has come a long way from the lonely wall it used to be.  Now it incorporates so many different avenues of content and information.  A new redesign is coming in the next few weeks and I’m sure to hear plenty of my friends complaining just like they complained when the NewsFeed made its debut.

Here’s a look at the changes in the upcoming facelift.

• Expanded and interactive “Wall,” where users can generate their own content, friends can write Wall posts, and applications can publish Feed stories
• Additional tabs on the profile, where users can feature their favorite applications
• Profile boxes, which appear in the narrow column, separate from the tabs
• Profile action links

I like it.  It now seems like an enhanced version of Twitter!  I like how Facebook is vying to become a huge conglomerate of smaller independent ideas.  Rock on Zuckerberg, you are a god.

Remember the good ol’ days when you had quotes like, “too close for missles, i’m switching to guns” (from Top Gun, 1986) on the bottom of every Facebook page?  Ahh, here’s a screenshot of one of the first formal redesigns.  How far we’ve come…