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Here’s how to get new Facebook’s look news feed.
Facebook said of the changes: ‘Today we’re announcing a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with a fresh new look.
‘We’ve completely rebuilt each story to be much more vibrant and colorful and highlight the content that your friends are sharing. Photos, news articles, maps and events all look brighter and more beautiful.’
Facebook users keen on converting their page to the new-style news feed can now sign up to be among the first users to experience the latest update to the world’s most popular social network.
The all-singing, all-dancing new-look Facebook – which boasts a cleaner, less cluttered news feed in the style of a ‘personalised newspaper’ – is being tested on a select number of users first in a bid to gauge reaction.
However there is a waiting list for the new format, which users can sign up to here.
This page offers a more detailed look at and explanation of how the social network’s new style news feed will work, together with video footage of Facebook staff explaining the thinking behind the revamp.
The Facebook changes were unveiled on Thursday in a presentation by SEO Mark Zuckerberg from the firm’s Palo Alto headquarters.
The bold new look will feature greater emphasis on photos and more visual info on mutual friends, businesses, bars and restaurants.
And the buzzword appeared to be ‘personalised newspaper’, with news feeds set to switch from one continuous feed to several specific lists that can be flicked between – like one would with newspaper supplements.
Photos will be bigger and more plentiful, mutual friends will come with more detailed information, check-ins will be more rich and trending stories shared by multiple friends will be more prominent – allowing users to instantly view viral videos in-feed.
Facebook will now divide your friends into ‘all’, ‘recent’ and ‘close’, while content can be distilled down to either ‘music’, ‘photos’ or ‘games’.
The redesign was launched alongside the words: ‘Goodbye clutter, hello bright, beautiful stories.’
The new look Facebook will be consistent across different devices, with changes being rolled out on desktop from today and mobile and tablet set to follow in the coming weeks.
Fear not: You WILL still be able to view every single update in once place if you so desire. Facebook was quick to point out that this sub-division of feeds does not mean the popular ‘ALL’ updates option will be sacrificed.
Facebook said of the changes: ‘Today we’re announcing a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with a fresh new look.
‘We’ve completely rebuilt each story to be much more vibrant and colorful and highlight the content that your friends are sharing. Photos, news articles, maps and events all look brighter and more beautiful.’
‘Facebook Graph Search coming to mobiles soon’
Voughan Smith, vice president of mobile partnerships at Facebook, refused to share any definitive date when the feature would be available on cellphones but said that the company's engineers were working to bringGraph Search to the mobile users. Launched with much fanfare, the feature allows users to search and filter information within Facebook in a more natural way compared to what search engines like Google and Bing offer.
Smith said that at Facebook mobile experience is a priority now. "A mobile phone is the most social device we have. And this is the reason why we see most of our growth coming from mobiles. For example, in India more and more people are accessing Facebook from mobiles," he said.
Recently the company said that out of its 1.1 billion users, around 750 million were actively using Facebook from mobile phones. In India, the company has 78 millions users and Smith said that a majority of them use Facebook on mobile phones.
"In 2008, only 20 million users were accessing Facebook from a mobile phone. Now in some countries like Japan, almost every Facebook user connects to the service through a mobile phone," said Smith.
The social-networking website recently introduced Facebook Home, a launcher-like app that takes over an Android phone and converts it into a kind of 'Facebook phone' by changing its homescreen with a widget and allowing people easy access to their Facebook timeline and friends. The company has also launched Facebook Messenger, an app that allows users to communicate with their Facebook contacts.
For now Facebook Home is only available on a handful of devices. Most of these devices are high-end phones. "We are working on bringing Facebook Home to more Android devices. More phones, including some of the phones sold by local brands, will be added to the list," said Smith.
Last week, Facebook announced partnership with Nokia and said that Facebook usage would be free on Asha 501 phone if the device was connected to Airtel or MTNL network. Smith said that the company was exploring similar partnership options with more cellphone makers in India.
"In the pre-launch testing of the service in Mexico we found that bundling Facebook with a phone is a win-win situation for all. Consumers love it because they can use Facebook for free and easily as we optimize the data use on the server-side to make the app work on even low-speed connection. Phone companies like it because it makes their phones more attractive. Telecom operator and Facebook like it because we get more users," said Smith.
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