For the modern new media professional it can be a full time job maintaining their profiles on the variety of social media platforms. I personally have found it a pain in the backside chore to keep my myspace, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr pages e.t.c e.t.c up to date. Wouldn’t it be plain simpler if some of these sites became integrated, thus saving me precious lunch time to actually have lunch?

Well looks like Facebook has read my mind, they no longer want to know “What you are doing right now?” but instead would like to know “What’s on your mind?”….

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is clearly on the ball, with the sudden rise in fame of Twitter, it is clear that Facebook is feeling the pinch of the Twitterati. It looks like Facebook and Zuckberg have decided to go with the old adage “If you havent thought of it first, borrow the thought and make it yours!”

“The need for people to easily discover the most recent and relevant content has grown.” says Zuckberg

Facebook is having another revamp (they cant really make it any worse than the last revamp, can they?) with what looks like a clear war cry against Twitter. The new Facebook homepage will lets users receive continuous updates from their friends instead of every 10 or 15 minutes. There will also be optional filters in place, so you can choose which of your friends to follow and to silence the noisier annoying ones.

Celebs, organizations and causes will have their own profile pages so users can track their comments and updates along with their friends. The 5000 friend limit has also been lifted to encourage users to follow more people which means my excuse for having only 100 friends in my profile page will have to be re-thought.

So what will facebook look like you ask? Well……

What facebook will look like after the revamp