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Starting today (October 23) you should be seeing some important changes to your FB home page. You can now select between News Feed and Live Feed. Live Feed is what you've been used to seeing for the past year: Everything your friends are posting as it happens. New Feed is now a "best of" your feed, the posted items from your friends that Facebook thinks you are most likely to be interested in or want to interact with.

By popular request, some of the notifications that used to appear in your feed but had been moved to a sidebar are now back in the Live Feed.

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Way too subtle, facebook. I had to search online to figure out what the difference between these two were.

by you over 2 years ago
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agreed, had no idea what it was. very confusing

by you over 2 years ago
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This is just plain stupid. Why change what worked just fine before??

by you over 2 years ago
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me too. i had an idea but I wasn't sure. they could've just told us that

by you over 2 years ago
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Was there an announcement about this change I missed? I noticed the live feed, clicked it, went back, wondered if I'd been missing posts since news feed is selective somehow. I had to google to find out what's going on.

by you over 2 years ago
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What do you all think of the new Facebook feeds? Vote for what's your preferred view, News Feed or Live Feed: http://www.dipoll.com/index.php?poll_id=577

by you over 2 years ago
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I also had to search to figure out what the difference was. I say, put it back the way it was.

by you over 2 years ago
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how about no feed at all? i miss those days

by you over 2 years ago
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Is this strike 1 against FaceBook? Gawd I hate a lack of communication. Where was a request for my feedback cuz I would've said NO!

by you over 2 years ago
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for those who don't like it... just use the live feed... is what you've always used

by you over 2 years ago
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comeon, its much better less cluttered than with "highlights" on the side everyone hated this new format when it came out also you'll get over it in no time

by you over 2 years ago
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Love it or hate it, I do agree that the worst thing about Facebook changes like this is their lack of communication to users about it.

by you over 2 years ago
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It's stupid and after all this time I still hear avid users not understanding the concept. Way to go facebook, piss off your users a bit more why don't ya!

by you over 2 years ago
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Well, Facebook has decided that none of my posts are either the "best of" or "something my friends would want to interact with." As a result, I am really offended when I take a look at News Feed and see postings from things like Farmsville, or a one word comment by a thread starter. Does not seem to matter whether someone "liked" it or posted on my thread, still there in Live Feed and usually forgotten and missed. How stupid and offensive.

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