[We don’t always agree with each other at TechHive. In fact, sometimes we can’t believe that our colleagues are thinking and saying such ridiculous things. In our Nerd Fight series, two TechHive editors square off on opposite sides of a burning tech topic.]

To use Facebook is to become accustomed to change. What else would you expect from a company whose operating philosophy is “move fast and break things?” But is change necessarily a good thing?

TechHive’s Philip Michaels would argue no. Facebook revamped its news feed in September 2011, combining Top Stories and Most Recent Stories into a unified feed. The social networking service now highlights the stories it thinks you’ll find the most interesting, and Michaels finds himself using Facebook less frequently. Links to news articles and Internet memes now overwhelm the personal status updates that made the social networking worthwhile in the first place—at least, as far as Michaels is concerned. Armando Rodriguez thinks the problem isn’t with Facebook, it’s with Michaels—or at least, it’s with how he’s interacting with the social network.

Who’s right and who’s barking up the wrong tree? Let’s have these two editors duke it out.

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