In the last few weeks Facebook has really frustrated me. Just when I thought I had my page the way I wanted it, they go and change things up on me. Facebook now has what they call "live feeds" and "news feeds." Live feeds has constant updates and News feeds highlights some of your friends activities. The problem is that if you have a lot of "friends" you aren't necessarily getting the updates on the friends that you really want to know about because Facebook choses what to feed you.
One thing that you can do to sort of switch back to the old Facebook is to change the default on your Homepage from live feed to status updates. To do this go to your homepage, in the very left hand margin there is a column listing the various feeds and applications that are available in the order they are available to you. Below the top 5 there is a little word called "more. " Click on MORE and then you are able to select and drag whatever feeds or applications you want to appear first on your homepage to the top. For example if you want to go back to the way the old Facebook was, you can drag STATUS UPDATES up to the top replacing live feed. Problem solved.
Next... I love all the different Facebook applications that are out there but I am sooooo tired of getting a feed everything someone obtains a Farmville, Mafia Wars, Bejeweled accomplishment, etc... The fix is this. Choose someone's post from one of these applications that you don't want to see anymore. Next to the post is a label called HIDE. Choose HIDE and voila, you won't see that application posts from anyone-anymore. YIPEEE! If you change your mind and you do want to see the posts again just go to the very bottom of your homepage. At the bottom right there is a label called EDIT OPTIONS. Click on that and you will be able to unhide any applications that you have blocked from your news feed.
As far as not getting all the feeds you want from your most important friends and getting feeds from people you barely know - here is the solution for that. Click on your News Feed option, then go to Live Feeds. At the very bottom of that page there is a label EDIT OPTIONS. Click on EDIT OPTIONS and you will be able to manually add friends that you really want to keep up with and you can hide feeds from friends that you don't want to know about anymore.
I really hope that this will help make your Facebook life more bearable with all the changes they have made. I know that I feel better :) Have a great day!
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