FaceBook made some changes to their interface yesterday.
NikNik posted 10 Very Useful Tips here for navigating the new FaceBook layout.
One of those changes is especially annoying for someone who uses FaceBook the way I use FaceBook.
It seems the ability to set a particular Friend List as my default newsfeed is gone.
The ability to create and edit lists is still there, look up in the upper right corner under Account -> Edit Friends.
And the ability to read the lists individually is still there, look in the left column, click on "Friends" and there are your Friend Lists, click on the one you want to read.
BUT I can't set any of those friend lists to display as my default newsfeed. Meaning whenever I log on to FaceBook, it is going to take two more clicks to get where I want to go, and read the people I want to read.
Why is this important to me? I have, for example, a friend list of local politicians. I read that list to know what is going on at L A City Hall.
BUT I don't want those people right up there in my face in my main newsfeed the first moment I log on to FaceBook. No offense intended, Mayor Antonio.
Some links from Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/04/facebook-redesign-4/
http://mashable.com/2010/02/05/facebook-birthday-video/
Oh, and for what it is worth, here is my old post on using Friend Lists back from when you could make a list your default newsfeed http://activerain.com/blogsview/1195274/organizing-your-facebook-friends-into-lists-will-save-your-sanity
Thanks! I wasn't aware - I'll have to go take a look now!
Good post!
Yes - the change is going to take some time to get used to. I had to search to find the "logout"!
Cheryl, I never learned the "old" Facebook very well....I expect the same with the new one :)
Cheryl - What did I do without you? You take all the new interesting tech material and make it readable and doable. Thanks.
I never did the old way either. Now I have to learn something new.
This is very helpful. I have bookmarked it for later.
It seems that 40% of my friends are addicted to Farmerville 1 I would love to learn how to keep these out of newsfeed !!!
Mike, Check out this post by Mariana Wagner
http://mykwblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/how-to-hide-farmville-mafia-wars-and-other-crp-from-your-facebook-wall/