Customizing your Facebook news feed

Pt. 3 of 10 | 2:04 |

The Finer Points of Facebook

Wednesday July 1, 2009

Many

Facebook users

accept the

default Facebook settings

. However, you can

customize your Facebook news feed

to show what you want to see by default. Just drag and drop to re-order. You can choose to see photos first, see notes, status updates and more. This is

web 2.0

, after all. You can also

create your own Facebook filters

to see updates from, for example, family or colleagues.

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Show Notes

- To change the order of items in your News Feed, just drag and drop.

- Next time you

log in to Facebook

, you'll see your top feed item first. For example, photos.

- Click More to see

Facebook applications

you've added.

- You can drag and drop applications to add them to your regular News Feed so you can see the latest updates.

- Click on Create to

make your own friends filter

.

- In our example, we call this new group filter "Family." Adding members to this list, we can filter to see just what our family has been up to since we last logged in.

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