I went to check and see what’s happening in Facebook just a few minutes ago and was welcomed with a "new, simplified home page" presented to me in my browser. Basics are still the same, but lots of stuff has moved around.
As you can see from the screen shot above; new notifications, requests and messages are now all grouped together by the apps that generated them.
Messages, your applications and a list of your online and available friends have shifted from the bottom-right-hand portion of the screen over to the far left in a sidebar type of layout design. The expanding chat that we’ve been used to remains available on the bottom-right-hand side still.
Account settings, privacy and preferences options have remained largely the same in the top right-hand corner underneath the existing search box functionality.
It appears there’s significantly more space in the main center column for updates, wall posts, the ever popular quizzes and the real guts of the Facebook experience. Makes sense to provide more room for this area.
Suggestions, ads, events and similar items are still remaining on the right-hand sidebar area.
You can jump into a tour of the new site layout for Facebook by taking this tour.