Facebook's News Feed Change: Love It or Hate It? [POLL]

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Sarah Kessler
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Facebook's News Feed Change: Love It or Hate It? [POLL]
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Instead of asking users to choose between "Top Stories" and "Most Recent" links, the new News Feed adjusts content based on the last time they checked it. Users who rarely log in, for instance, see top stories from their networks. More frequent users see recent content in chronological order. Facebook also changed the way photos are displayed in the News Feed, making them larger and more prominent.

The most drastic change to the News Feed concept is the addition of a news ticker. Above the chat column, users now see real-time updates from their networks. When they click items from the ticker, the content is brought up in a hover window and the user does not need to leave the page in order to interact with their updates.

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Mashable readers shared varied opinions. "I don't need everyone to know what photos or comments I 'Like' and I don't want to know that depth of other people's communications, either," reader Adam O'Connor commented on, somewhat ironically, Facebook.

"I’ve been asking for a long time for a way to make sure I don’t miss the most important things in friend’s lives, especially those who don’t post often, while a long string of inanities from talkative friends scroll by," wrote Dale Larson.

We'd like to hear from more of you. Are you enjoying the latest changes or are you annoyed by them?

What Do You Think of Facebook's Revamped News Feed?

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