Changing your Facebook Network year

My sister just signed up for Facebook, and she's been confused by the complicated interface and huge number of links and options.

I didn't realize, until I considered it from a new user's perspective, just how complicated Facebook has become.

I was there in the early days-- some three years ago now-- and Facebook was much simpler back then.

I wonder if that aided it in its rise to popularity and fame?

For new users, many of them have difficulty using Facebook's plethora of features now. And it's poised to get worse in the future. In particular, the mini feed makes things look really complicated-- but I actually like the news feed feature.

When my sister signed up for Facebook, the wrong network year was chosen-- UCLA '07 instead of UCLA '11. But there was no obvious way to change this, even after changing the Education info (so that was correct) and consulting the Help pages.

We decided we would try leaving the network and rejoining it. It was at this point that we actually stumbled upon the trick to change the network year from '07 to '11.


Go to account and then Networks. Click Edit Info next to the network whose year you want to modify.

That was hard, especially for a new user!