Trying to convince myself

"Look, it is not as if I haven't tried."

"Give it time," I told myself, "Just give it time.  Soon you will no longer remember that change has taken place.."

Then I reminisced "Don't you remember how everyone was up in arms over previous changes, announcing their imminent departure from the social media scene? 

"After a few weeks everyone stops huffing and puffing and got on with it. Life moves on, we adapt. We have other concerns that are of greater importance and soon we could not describe the previous layout if we tried."

I bit the bullet. 

Accepted the change. 

After a week I thought I would have got used to it. 

But I had not.

I looked at the page and tried to analyse why. 

The new Facebook is incredibly boring. 

Absence of the blue banner means attention is not drawn to the page. 

Page structure is not visible - that which enabled the eye to move easily from section to section, appears to be absent. Where is the framework to enable the user to quickly navigate the page? Instead it feels as if you are blundering through a vast white desert, devoid of guides or landmarks.

Meanwhile Facebook content appears to have got incredibly boring. Have all my interesting friends gone into hiding, dulled into stupefaction by the new triter, brighter, lighter, whiter, Facebook?

Presumably the changes have been brought about to make Facebook easier to use on mobile devices.

I WILL persevere.

In time I WILL forget the way it used to be.

Then I got a new computer. 

No longer was I plugged into an old TV. I had a proper screen again. 

Woohoo!

Suddenly subtle shading was revealed. There WAS a structure, just the low resolution on my makeshift screen made it impossible to discern. 

Sometimes part of the problem is us... (Just don't quote me on that... ;) )

"Maybe I WILL get used to this after all! The change may not be as bad as I thought." 

Blogger has also been subjected to a makeover / upgrade. 

I no longer seem to have the ability to start a new line without an irritating double spacing! 

It is rather reminiscent of using waste-of-space Word, when you are used to the more precise Publisher, where every pixel counts... Meanwhile, Publisher has faded away and they have tried to make Word more like Publisher, but it isn't. Mind you, as a Mac user I have to use Pages.

Can I get used to this new Blogger? It feels clunky, chunky, restrictive...

Time to research alternatives I feel. 

Watch this space...or another, as yet unknown, located somewhere on the internet.

Life is a journey :)