Several Tweaks Giving Users More Control Over the New Home Page Now Live
Yesterday, Facebook announced that it would be making several updates to the new home page based on user feedback. Tonight, some of those updates are now live:
1. Hiding all updates from any application. Before the update, users could only hide particular friends from the home page stream. Now, users can hide all shared content from any particular application. This means users are now able to hide updates from apps that they feel are “clogging” their home page too much.
2. Creating friend lists from the home page. Now, users can create friend lists (and thus stream filters) directly from the home page.
3. Invitations and requests are back on the top right. This should increase conversion of both application invitations and friend requests.
Facebook announced several additional updates yesterday, including live stream updates without refreshing the page, improving the quality and recency of Highlights, and adding friends tagged in photos to the stream. However, those updates were not part of today’s push.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
PLEASE…Consider bringing back “BOLD-FACED” Stauts Updates on each Users Profile Page. These are soooooo missed. Bold-Faced Status Updates high-lighted the page…made it flow better, it was easier to follow Status/Comments, etc. Now each Profile Page looks the same…
-Thank You-
March 26th, 2009 at 10:42 am
grr, the attempt 2 news feed is so stupid (if this will be the new real time whenever auto refresh is added it absolute junk to be called a in real time service
personally they should of kept attempt 1 (whatever to the minority vocal ‘i want as i want’ brigade wants) and just added the create friend list improvement and the hide application option to hide news feed as the news feed has become a turn off as i was a fan of the real time although did want hide stories by application filtering!
March 26th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Thanks for moving the events and invites back over to the right! So much easier to find now!
March 26th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Great article, but… Where are these “Hide” buttons? I can’t see them.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Yeah, I can’t see the Hide menu that you mentioned. I do see the requests being moved back to the right column and new friend creation option on the left.