Keeping up with the Zuckerbergs

Facebook are always making changes and improvements to the service. Things change; as a developer you must deal with this.

More importantly, you must accept this. Every time Facebook announces a new feature, the removal of an old feature, or a change to an existing feature, developers rise up and complain that this is going to cripple their application, push them way back on schedule, and make them lose huge amounts of revenue and users.

It's fine to be vocal, but at some point it becomes denial. If you've been using the Facebook website for any length of time, you'll know that they will happily make big, sweeping changes – like the introduction of the News Feed, and the removal of Tabs and Boxes on user profiles ...

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