Facebook is undergoing a major overhaul this week, rolling out a new user experience for profiles and pages. While the changes to personal profiles fall directly within aesthetics, brand pages are taking on another level of functionality with Facebook’s location-based service, Places (read Mashable’s post about the Places integration here.)

While it’s exciting to read through the extensive list of new features these new profiles are serving up, I can’t help but dwell on how similar the new layout is to the OLD Facebook profile. Check it out:

The New Facebook Page/Profile

The Super-Old (Original) Facebook Profile:

What do you think of the changes? If you don’t have the new profile yet, go here to get it.

This article first appeared on the Isobar blog, my nifty company writer’s co-op, on December 6th.