Facebook’s recent update to their home page news feed seems to be confusing a lot of people. In a nutshell, here’s how the new news feed works.
“News Feed” is sort of like the old style feed from a year or two ago – basically a list of the most popular of news items. At least what Facebooks deems most popular, based on comments and click throughs. The “View Live Feed” link at the top will give you a true chronological, unfiltered news feed of status updates, new friend and Facebook page updates.
The old Facebook home page use to display items similar to this new New Feed option. Personally I kind of liked it, and was sorry when it disappeared in exchange for a complete real-time feed, a la Twitter. I think having both options is convenient, and after the initial round of inevitable grips, I’m sure most users will agree.
