To those of us who are members of Facebook (which is likely the vast majority these days), we are used to one day logging into Facebook as we normally would and seeing that once again Mr. Zuckerberg has made some changes to the website that we have all finally become familiar with after the last time he's changed things around.
When this happens, my newsfeed usually blows up with a billion complaints. And now, on Tumblr, it has just happened. There's posts all around my dashboard full of "WTF's" and "what is this, make it go away."
The funny thing is, people will do this for a few days or so, and eventually get over it. Once the novelty of the new/different features wears off, it doesn't matter anymore. We all become victims of habit and just kind of go with whatever is presented to us. As long as it still works and serves its purpose without any problems, the changes that you posted and complained about are meaningless.
The novelty wearing off on this kind of reminds me of the way that we hear the news. Something huge will happen, and then slowly, the hype will die down, and it will just eventually become a footnote or an in-between story to update. The disasters in Haiti and Japan for example; how often do we hear about these anymore? Once something happens, and it is not in our daily lives, we seem to forget about it and simply move on, sometimes without even noticing that it happened. It's an almost unkind and strange way to live, if you think about it, but that's the way that it seems to be.
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