The moment New, Scary, Weird Facebook replaced Old, Pretty, Comfortable Facebook as the website’s prototype, the collegiate world erupted into chaos. Literally, chaos: people were freaking out, trying to find secret codes that would get the old format back, and holding personal strikes against the website.

However, now that we are a few weeks removed from the 8.9-level catastrophe on the Cyber-Richter Scale, I think everyone would admit that they’re holding up just fine. If the format switch is not a legitimate psychological experiment testing how much people hate change, I don’t know what is (sorry, psych is on the mind – see previous post).

Now that we’ve accepted New Facebook into our homes and hearts, it’s not as horrific as we first thought. Sure, the two pages are fundamentally, visually, and morally different, but is one truly superior to another?

This may be hard to comprehend if you’re not a Facebook junkie, but try to stay with me here: for one, New Facebook uses tab to separate the Wall, Info, Photo, and Box (such a vague subtitle, by the way) parts of your profile, whereas Old Facebook categorized Mini-Feed and Wall as separate boxes on the same page. Old Facebook only featured the friends in your primary network on the left side of your page, whereas New Facebook clumps all your friends together (a plus when you want to stalk people outside your network). Old Facebook scrolled through pictures vertically, while New Facebook does so horizontally – that one was a real kicker.

So, what does everyone think? Are you all managing to survive with New Facebook, or does Old Facebook still haunt your dreams? Do you even remember what the old format looked like?