Creatures of habit

Humans like habits, that’s for sure. For example, I have a habit of pointing out how ridiculous constant whining about website changes is.

Why? Because things change, usually for the better. Whenever Facebook implements a new feature or moves some button a couple inches to the right, all hell breaks loose. Whine whine whine. Whining does stack, unlike poison damage in some games. AND IT’S IRRITATING. SO STOP IT.

Maybe you have a legit pesonal reason for hating a design or new features, but you have to realize that not everyone hates them. What do you think - where would the Internet be today if everything somebody complained about got scrapped? Remember the times when you couldn’t tag people in Facebook comments? Or when notifications popped out in the bottom right part of the screen, next to chat options (and it didn’t have any sense since other requests popped up in the top left)? Every single of these got pissed on and got people pissed off. For no reason except your own, selfish habits.

Shockingly, your personal preferences aren’t that important to the big picture. Designers put a lot of hard work in designing these features and designs and (in most cases) know what they are doing better than you. It’s their job.

And then, at the end of the complaining cycle, you realize that this indeed IS BETTER, but you will probably say something like “I got used to it.” Yeah you did, because it’s better. Maybe you’d realize it much sooner if you hadn’t cried like a little girl because your favorite option is now left instead of right. BIG DEAL. Apologies to little girls out there, you have every right to cry about layouts. Go ahead, CRY.