Another Facebook update hit us yesterday and you would have thought that it took away everyone’s birthdays. Calamity! They changed the feed so that top stories are at the top. Oh. My. Gosh! Better quit; we can’t have Facebook be more useful or intuitive!

Yes, I like change and I’m hoping by this time that you do too. But another view came out yesterday, that old chestnut:

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

This presupposes that change is only about “fixing” something “broke” or that your current mild satisfaction demands that the status quo be locked into stasis, unchanged by the elements or the simple progress of time. Things don’t need to be unusable before they are improved. In fact, it is much more difficult to make improvements on a ship as it is sinking. You change it between voyages.

What Facebook is doing is adapting, like evolution. It is changing to meet our needs in the present. Facebook, like all technology, is only as good as it is useful in the present and adaptable toward the future.

How adaptable are you? How have you changed in the months since the last update? And how could you update your own life to better deal with the present?