Facebook is revamping the home page’s news feed to combine the Top News and Most Recent feeds. Top News content would be available first if highly relevant updates have been published since they last checked would be available first and Most Recent content first if they’ve been visiting frequently.
The users will get to see both relevancies filtered and a raw stream of updates at the same time ensuring, there is always something compelling waiting on the home page. This could help Facebook turn quick whether to check for new messages or notifications into longer sessions. There will be no missing of important updates or getting bored with duplicate feeds.
Users now will see Top News segment at the top of the feed showing important stories by close friends or those with lots of Likes and comments that they haven’t seen yet, followed by Most Recent-style content. Facebook’s EdgeRank helps with users preferences, Clicking ‘X’ next to a story brings up options to mark or unmark an update as top news.
Along with the recently added Subscribe options for managing the frequency and types of posts in the feed, these controls will allow power users to refine their news feed. With the Subscribe button:
Users can use it to see what they want to in a News feed
· Hear from people even if you’re not friends
· Let people from you, even if you’re not friend
· You get the power of choice to see updates from one friend, game updates from another and nothing from another friend
· The subscribe button makes it possible for you to hear from famous people you’re not friends with like journalists, actors, sportspersons
The photos posted now will seem larger than before; new photos being added to an album will show the most popular photo from the album at roughly four times the standard news feed photo size
Real time ticker
A real time Ticker in the right sidebar will display updates that users can click to expand and engage with.
the Ticker shows activity stories in plain text such as “Kate O’Neill added a new photo to the album Mobile Uploads”, rather than actually showing the photo. Users can hover over a Ticker update to view a popover of the full story it describes, and click to add Likes or comments.
It will take some getting used to, and Facebook will need strike the right balance between Top News and Recent Stories in the primary feed, but the redesign could make Facebook a more relaxing experience.
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