Facebook Makeover Coming Soon?

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Whether you like it or not, everyone is on Facebook right now. Your college sweetheart, your mom and your grandma and even your dog might have a Facebook ID and their own pages. They poke you, browse through pictures, play games and update their status continuously. Well maybe the dog doesn’t care that much but everyone else is using Facebook more and more.

Facebook, like Twitter for that matter, is available to any computer with an active Internet connection. And with the introduction of smarter and smarter smartphones, Facebook is available on the go to anyone interested in checking it out. So, do we really need Facebook or does Facebook needs us?

Social networking is becoming more and more important in our lives but does it really help us communicate better with our friends and family? Or does it build a transparent wall between us and our loved ones. With new feature after new feature we get the impression that we interact better with our friends but we do so from a computer instead of doing it live.

So if I’m not about to actually chat with my friends in person every day, I might enjoy Facebook for what it is or what it could be. And it looks like Facebook wants a complete makeover. Although not official it looks like a redesign is coming soon and we’ve found the leaked shots (see below) to prove it.

It seems that the Facebook homepage will go through some small but important modifications. The menu at the bottom of the screen is apparently going to the sidebar. The new navbar will come with new icons that display invitations, inbox and notifications while the whole search bar has been significantly increased.

Don’t be alarmed by the changes as what we’ve seen so far might not even be the final design version of Facebook. The company is probably experimenting with various elements before it’s ready to go public with the changes.

What do you want to see changed in Facebook?