People taking to the streets and standing up for their right to vote, now that's a sign.

It's a sign of a country that has seen it's fair share of oppression, while claiming to have fair elections, that is ready for change. Now it's time to put words into action and let the people have their say.

Of course, even if the reformist Mousavi would get into office, no one has any illusions that there would be a new dawn with a country freed from the clutches of a supreme leader. But it might be a first step in the right direction. At least the recount of the disputed votes gives a glimmer of hope that something might change.

Another four years of Ahmadinejad certainly won't make the country or the world any better off.

Generally people don't like change.

A sweeping statement, I know, but I fall into that category too (more often than I'd like to admit).

Humans, just like animals, are creatures of habit. We get used to something we like (sometimes even something we don't like) and when a change of that habit looms, we curl up in despair, crying "But why?".

I should be used to change. Or rather I am used to it.

I travel for work a lot, change projects every couple of months and I've live in a few countries and cities. So change does come quite naturally to me, but I do have to admit that once I get into certain habits I sometimes find it hard to let go of them. Whether that's restaurants, shops, clothes etc.

One place that is constantly changing and should be is the internet. Websites change their look and feel every couple of years, they introduce new features and generally users scream that the old was better.

Facebook is a particularly good example of that. The social networking site has evolved significantly from its first form of simple connected profile pages to the lets-share-and-document-our-entire-lives site it has become now.

So when it introduced the latest changes to its functionality, which turned its newsfeed into something more of a twitter-esque "who's doing what RIGHT NOW" source of information, users cried again that they wanted the old version back.

But they've done that before. Users have always come out in hordes saying how much they hate the new layout, but in the end they got on with and used to it and in the end quite like it. The introduction of the newsfeed in 2006 is probably the best example of that.

What they learned from that backlash is informing users of the upcoming changes and soliciting their feedback might actually be a good idea.

They did that for the last change when there was a significant front end overhaul, but not this time, which is strange.

Again, with all the people protesting right now, sooner or later people will just get on with it.

But it is interesting to note that if change is managed gradually, the transition is still bumpy, but a lot less rocky than if you go for the big bang approach.