A new Facebook layout has prompted screams of impotent outrage: people are bemoaning the inconvenience of a mildly amended website, groups springing up to demand a change back to the last controversial layout that, for all the world, looks very similar to what we have now.

It is probably one of the reasons why the world is headed to hell in handcart – people don’t notice the reprehensible state we’re in because they are too busy banging on about how it now takes two clicks rather than just one to logout of Facebook.

So let’s get some frickin’ perspective here, people. The extremely limited changes to Facebook are the very definition of a minor irritant – if you’ve even noticed them thus far. If the changes bother you, then just remember in a week’s time you’ll have forgotten what Facebook used to look like, so you may as well get over the changes now. If you really can’t stand the new Facebook, then don’t fucking use it. It’s a free service that no-one is obliged to use – getting worked up about minor changes to the design is utterly futile.