Stories Related to Facebook's New News Feed: A Big Shot Fired In War Against Information Overload

Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 1:05pm

Facebook just made one of the biggest changes to the site's user experience since the introduction of the News Feed three years ago. News Feed was the place in the very center of the site where all the activities of a user's friends were displayed in reverse chronological order. That feature is now called the Live Feed and the News Feed has become a filtered display of activity highlights instead. In September 2006 the News Feed was a radical idea; thousands of Facebook users revolted against the idea that all their friends would be shown every photo they uploaded, when their relationship status changed and other information as soon as it was available.

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