Facebook Updates News Feed To Display Top Stories Since You Last Visited

Facebook has announced a number of changes to the News Feed this week, designed to keep you informed of important updates and interesting events in your friends’ lives. It is becoming more like a personal newspaper, and content is adjusted depending on how frequently you visit the site.

If you haven’t logged onto Facebook in a while, you’ll see a summary of the top stories and photos, like the front page news, which will be marked with a blue corner. If you checked your feed only yesterday, then it will display recent news updates first and the photos will be bigger for you to enjoy while you’re scrolling through.

To combat the time lag of the News Feed, Facebook is adding the “ticker” that was indicated last month. This will provide an easy way for you to see comments and photos that are posted in real-time, and chat to your friends about them. Updates are displayed instantaneously, letting you join a conversation straight away. You can click on anything in the ticker to bring up a hover window with the full story and add your comment.

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