Tag archive: Facebook News Feed

According to a report from Reuters published on Tuesday, the social network company Facebook has launched an update that allows users to report any content posted on the site and categorize the post as “suicidal content” in the options. Facebook then sends an email to the suicidal user which contains methods of contact to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline which include a URL link for a direct online chat or the phone number.… Read More

Twitter recently rolled out its new Activity stream, a feature that annotates your activity as well as the activity of accounts you interact with often. It scoops up the favorites, follows, and retweets of people you follow. Sound familiar? It’s basically a Twitterized rip-off of the Facebook News Feed—but worse-looking. The Activity stream is a glorified avenue for getting you to follow new accounts, but it’s replacing the categories users… Read More

After changes during September 2011 altered how stories and updates appear within the Facebook news feed, the company is now offering a sorting method to bring back the previous organization of content. Announced on the official Facebook blog today, a new “Sort” link will start appearing on Facebook accounts over the new few weeks. After clicking the sort button in the top right hand corner of the screen, users will be able to… Read More

In case you haven’t noticed, a veritable slew of new features and updates to old features have hit Facebook this week. First, a quick recap before we get into the context of what it all means: Subscribe: Now regardless of whether you’re  friends with a person on Facebook, you can subscribe to their status updates. It’s similar to Twitter, where you can follow whoever you want and it doesn’t necessitate a two-way relationship. Lists: In an… Read More

More than a few changes are slated to hit Facebook this Thursday when its f8 developers conference begins, but the site is revealing some much-anticipated updates before the event kicks off. And it’s just as well: Turns out that a ticker is hitting the site, as are a few adjustments to the News Feed. Facebook has said time and time again (and most recently with its new Subscribe and Lists features) that its News Feed needs tinkering with. The… Read More

Facebook has been busy lately, yesterday they announced new ways to sort your friends lists and today they announced the new Subscribe button. Facebook users will now be able to subscribe to people who are not their friends,and see their updates in their news feed. This all sounds very similar to Twitter and following people, but there are a few very important differences. The subscribe button allows you to receive updates from someone you… Read More

Earlier this week we heard that Facebook was going to make a big push encouraging users to utilize its Lists application. So intent is Facebook on promoting these privacy-enabling features that it’s also introducing auto lists to segment your contacts into pre-set groups to help you share more discreetly. Facebook hits one thing on the head with this reveal: Up until now, its Lists tool has been anything but simple to use. Scrolling through the… Read More

Called the 'Ticker' by internal Facebook employees, the social networking company is slowly allowing more users to view a real-time feed of friend actions to the right of the main Facebook News Feed. This unfiltered flow of news shows actions such as comments, like clicks, new friend connections, photo uploads and status updates that friends are creating on mutual friend pages as well as non-friend pages. It's basically a feed… Read More

Facebook users are spending 27 percent of their time on their Newsfeeds, and only 10 percent on applications, a new study by ComScore reports. Other activities like viewing photos (17 percent) and other people’s profiles (21 percent) accounted for significant amounts of time as well. With over 160 million members in the United States, these figures reveal interesting trends about roughly half the country’s population. The implications have a… Read More

Facebook may be looking to take Twitter head-on with a new feature of its News Feed called “Happening Now.” The real-time update feature, which has similarities to a Twitter friend feed, is still very much in its testing phase, though a small percentage of users have access to the feature now. From what we can tell from our limited vantage point, “Happening Now” provides Facebook users with automatic updates about what… Read More

Facebook announced a series of updates Monday that largely try to help users more easily share information. The new Questions feature introduced last month will now be integrated into Groups so that you can easily poll a specific set of people. Users will now be able to share entire albums with a group instead of painstakingly upload single photo about single photo. Of course, if you’re stuck using Facebook’s original Group feature, you won’t be… Read More

OnStar is due for a feature upgrade to match services offered by rival Ford’s Sync music and information system. According to Bloomberg, General Motors will be adding free services hooking into Facebook to its OnStar subscription service later this month. The service currently provides accident alerts, directions, vehicle diagnostics and roadside assistance in case of an emergency. With the upgrade, OnStar will enable the always-cool… Read More

Worried about missing a birth announcement, or details on what your portly uncle had for lunch? Facebook is tweaking its home page yet again in hopes of making it easier to find information. Among the latest changes is a list of items you might have missed during those rare moments spent away from the online hangout. The changes are being rolled out Friday. When you log in to Facebook you will see what the site deems the most interesting things… Read More