At the end of last week, Facebook debuted their latest redesign. You can now access a live feed or a news feed to learn about the latest information from your friends.

You will be able to catch up on what you may have missed while you were away from Facebook and then easily switch to the real-time stream when you want to see posts as soon as they’re shared. Here’s how it works:

News Feed
When you log into Facebook, you’ll see the most interesting things that happened in the last day in the “News Feed” view. News Feed picks stories that we think you’ll enjoy based on a variety of factors including how many friends have liked and commented on it and how likely you are to interact with that story.

Live Feed
Once you’ve caught up on what you missed, you can click through to “Live Feed” to see what’s happening right now. As long as you remain logged into Facebook, you’ll continue to see posts and activity from your friends in real-time. You can edit what appears in this view by clicking “Edit Options” at the bottom of the home page.

In addition to changing the feeds, your right column have changed a bit as well. The information that used to be in the right-side Highlights is now in the News feed. The News feed now includes when your friends become Page fans, RSVP for events, join groups, make news friends, or are tagged in photos. Birthdays and events are now more visible in the right column.

I’m not sure how well it’s going over. Of course, a lot of Facebook changes bring about some amount of ire.

One thing I’ve seen popping up in news and live feeds (as well as on Twitter) is how to view more of your friends’ updates in your live feed. Facebook has decided that 250 is  a manageable amount. If you want more, you can change the number of updates in the Edit Options portion of the Live Feed (still at the bottom of the screen).
What are your feelings on the new look and feel of Facebook?

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