If you haven’t seen it already, the long awaited Facebook makeover can now be viewed live and in full color! At the moment, it’s an opt-in thing–use it if you want to get used to it, but if you’re not ready for the change you can still stick with the current layout.

In my opinion the new look provides a much needed layout to an already successful social network. It should attract even more people than before. Also, in listening to their users, the crew over there at Facebook has moved the profile pics back to the left-hand side of the page among a couple other minor tweaks.

My browsing wasn’t without difficulty though. Many times clicking a link or button resulted nothing happening. Either the browser would just act like it was working but never came back with a new page. Other times clicking a link just didn’t do anything–as if the link wasn’t programmed to go anywhere. My guess is that Facebook’s servers are getting hit fairly hard at the moment with everyone checking out the improvements and I’m sure the development team is actively working to make the transition as smooth as possible. I don’t foresee too many problems come mainstream launch day.

In a few weeks (my guess is sometime toward mid-August) the new Facebook site will go live for everyone and you won’t have a choice but to use the new UI. It’ll take a bit of getting used to at first, but all in all it’s for the better and I think you’ll like it a lot. Go take a look!