I don't see this new Facebook layout, it's the same as usual.
I kinda hop on Facebook now and then but not so much anymore. Anyone I need to talk to I can either contact through Skype, text message/phone call, or on this very site. Although I really don't get the hate, it's still the big social networking site. It's an entire site based around fluff (do I really care what you ate for breakfast or what you like?), why do we care when more fluff is added?
Also MySpace was shit because it became dominated by the dread emotards who populate such festering breeding grounds of sterile teenager sperm as MyYearbook and such. Facebook at least became more general so you could be almost any age and use it well. My friends (who range from like 16-18) use it, my dad (whose 45 or so) uses it, hell, my grandparents use it. Can't say the same for MySpace.