If You Don’t Like the New Facebook Feed, Stop Whining and Fix It

26 Oct 2009

It seems the majority of Facebook users don’t like the new “News Feed” or “Live Feed” on their home page. If you’re one of them, don’t whine about it, change it back to the way it was. It’s really quite simple.

On your Facebook home page there’s a menu on the left side. Do this:

1. Click “more” at the bottom of that menu.

2. Drag “Status Updates” to the top of the list.

3. Refresh.

Badda bing, badda boom, your old Facebook is back. Kinda. You won’t see posted photos or links, so if that’s important to you, you’ll just have to live with the new feed.

Personally I like the “Live Feed” but unfortunately, every time a friend adds a friend or fans someone, it shows up in the feed and frankly, I don’t much care to know that information.

The solution to that problem is to open your settings and then select “News Feed and Wall” and uncheck the box for “Add a Friend”. The problem is there’s no telling how long it will be until everyone updates their settings, if they ever do, so hopefully Facebook will change that soon.

Dear Facebook; No, I do not want to know every time someone becomes friends with someone else!

SusieBlackmon

I don't think I made myself very clear. I better go to bed.

Handerson

No Susie.. you were very general and had no point.

Go get some beauty sleep.. you need it.

Thanks for the help Hugh.

SusieBlackmon

You can change the Add a Friend settings in the Privacy settings on FB. ;-)

Hugh Briss

Yes, you can, as I explained in my post. The problem right now is that most users don't know to do that so in the meantime we have their status updates in our streams.