Facebook; Arranging Feeds To Get More Than Your 250 Friends Worth

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Facebook feeds show you updates for 250 of your closest friends. Facebook "friends" that is. And what happens if you have more than 250 friends? Well, Facebook somewhat randomly determines which feeds to show you.

While Facebook cannot read your mind, this is still no way to treat your friends. So, I submit that using "lists" is the answer to the problem. Using lists, you can quickly stroll through different segments of your friends and see what's up.

To change the "250" for your Status and news feeds, click on "News Feed", then click "Live Feed". Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Edit Options". Now you will see two boxes. One, to show more friends, and essentially add them to the live stream. No matter how Facebook determines the top 250, they will be there if they have updates. You can enter them by name, or scroll through your list of friends to add them to the max. 250. The other box is to purposely remove certain people pages or applications from the stream. By tweaking your live feed stream, you can make sure that you do not miss news from the friends you care about most.

Use "Add List" to further tweak lists of friends by what ever criteria you wish.

Happy Facebooking.

~ Andy

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Facebook, Creating New Lists and Rearranging Feeds

Many people state that they do not like the "New" Facebook layout. As an interface designer, I can appreciate the hard work, the Fb programmers are putting into it, and like the results as a whole.
One of the biggest changes and complaints, concerns the use of "feeds". Most people have not grasped the versatility at their disposal for better feeds integration. The new feeds options are actually better, because you can create a feed for any list or any one and are not limited to the last 250 random updates made (TBD tomorrow).

You can create lists of friends by clicking on the "Friends" button, and choosing a person to add to the group. Click "Add To List" on the right side of the screen and create a new list name if needed. Then when you click to add to list for the rest of the group, scroll down to the list name you created. *You can also create a new list from the "Feeds" list, by clicking "More" and then clicking "Add List"

Use your new lists as additional Status/News feeds. On your home page, at the bottom of the list of feeds, click "More". Now you can rearrange your news feeds in any order, including moving "News Feed" or "Status Update" to the top of the list to make it the default. 

Now you can check the overall news, or the feed for your favorite list(s), all you want, by clicking on their name in the left hand column.

Happier Facebooking.

~ Andy

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