Facebook has just revealed a major redesign of its social networking site, having reorganized and simplified many of its features.

The site’s new interface is much cleaner and the users will now have more control over their profiles.

The new version is currently in limited use, but company officials said the new Facebook will gradually be available to the site’s more than 70 million users in the following days. Facebook advised its users to not be disappointed if they did not immediately see the changes, but come back in the next few days and check out the new features.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement that the recent changes were supposed to give users “even more control and ownership over their profiles and simplify the user experience.”

Some of the applications that have been until now shown on the left-hand bar, such as links to photos, groups or events, will be moved to the right-hand bar, where the notifications and friend’s status updates are placed as well.

An important change will be the addition of tabs, which will make it simpler to access a friend’s wall, personal information, photos and applications. Instead of being spread around on the user’s profile, these features will, from now on, be accessed easily, by using tabs located at the top of the page. More tabs may be added for certain applications, if the user wishes.

The new design does not affect Facebook’s privacy policy, company officials said. Users are still able to “choose what information they put in their profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups they join.”

The most popular social networking site recently sued the German site StudiVZ, claiming that it was an illegal clone of Facebook. StudiVZ said it had not received any legal complaint from Facebook and denied to have illegally copied the more famous site’s design.