Tumblr 101: Tips And Tricks To Get Started
Sebastian Thrun: Google's Driverless Car
How to Get the 'Old' Facebook Back, Kinda
Last week, Facebook made some changes to its homepage news feed, and the Internet masses are up in arms (as they always are when anything changes). The new homepage moved the focus from live status updates, which can get overwhelming if you have a lot of Facebook-addicted friends, to a top "News Feed" that puts together a highlight reel of recent Facebook activity -- including new photos, birthday reminders, and relationship status changes.
Some people are clamoring to bring back the straight-up status updates, and while there is no way to revert back to the old(ish)-school Facebook home screen, you can at least get a decent approximation.
Simply click on the "more" link in the left-hand column, just underneath where it says, "News Feed," "Status Updates," "Photos," etc. When the list expands, drag the "Status Updates" entry to the top of the list, above "News Feed." Then, simply refresh your home page by either clicking your browser's reload button or by hitting F5. Just like that, the live status updates will be returned to their place of prominence. It's not perfect, but it should appease some of the cry-babies out there moaning about Facebook's new look.
16 Grammys Looks That Weren't Working
Whitney Houston Autopsy: Cause of Death Determined?
Worst Movie Mistakes: Date Night Edition (PHOTOS)
Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina: Late Singer's Daughter Hospitalized
Adele Five-Year Break? Singer Plans to Focus on Relationship, Write 'Happy Record'
PHOTOS: President Obama's Kissing Technique
Whitney Houston Dead: Stars React to Legend's Sudden Death
Jennifer Hudson Whitney Tribute: Grammy President Reveals Why Singer Was Chosen for Musical Memorial
How Hattie Lost 300 Pounds: 'I Was Ready To Do Whatever It Took To Survive'
Grammy 2012 Winners' List: Adele Sweeps Music's Biggest Night
Whitney Houston Dead: Singer Dies at 48, Body Found in Beverly Hilton Hotel
Matt Bomer Comes Out As Gay
3 Economic Misconceptions That Need to Die
5-Hour Energy: A Success Equal Parts Caffeine, Chemistry and Meditation
Grammy Awards 2012: The Best & Worst Of The Red Carpet!
People With Easy-To-Pronounce Names More Likely To Succeed, Study Says
Photos Of Dead Lacrosse Player's Injured Body Shown To Jury
12 Grammys Stars Who Gave Good Style
The Top 10 Slacker Colleges
15 Funny Valentine's Day Cards
Mystery Disease Kills Thousands
WATCH: 25 Million Tons Of Japan Tsunami Debris Headed Directly Our Way
Oprah Under Fire For Controversial Tweet
PHOTOS: Thank God For Grown-Up Glamour
JUNGLE SURVIVAL: Marines Drink Snake Blood, Eat Insects
Remembering The People's Ballerina
Scuba-Diving Murder Trial: Prosecutors Drop One Charge Against Husband
PHOTOS: Kate Spends Valentine's Day Solo!
Taylor Swift Does Great Depression Chic
PHOTO: Kate Upton Scores 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue Cover!
PHOTOS: Beautiful Scars
15 Funny Valentine's Day Quotes
Comments
30
Subscribe to commentsWendyOct 26th 2009 2:28PM
cry-babies??? Kiss my @## . There was nothing wrong with the old facebook. No one's crying, everyone is just frustrated as h***. They need to stop messing with it.
David94HOct 26th 2009 3:09PM
ditto
shaynababy13Jan 30th 2010 7:43PM
I assume your talking about your layout changing? and wanting it back to the original layout? if so, im right there with you, im getting so frustrated with this new layout, i want the old one back and no one knows how to change it back! grrr.
jdc8Oct 26th 2009 2:42PM
Wendy is right, there's no freekin crybabies here, just FB users who didn't want something fixed that wasn't broke.
If FB IT people needed to change for their own systems reasons, they should have given some notice before just changing and assuming that everyone would understand how the new format works. I'm a PC power user but I don't like having to change something that I think works well without knowing the whys of it. I think the biggest gripe is the lack of notice and the lack of explanations.
jaydeelouiseFeb 10th 2010 11:41AM
Thiss iss pathetic!!
My facebook is a mess, i dont know what to do or nuttin nmurr,
Ya need tuu get ye act together tbh! :/
Its propper annoyinn!
I went on it one day and it was changed i had noo ideaa how to use the fing, i'm only just gettin the hang of it now!
change itt backk, FFS ye supposed tu be having to pay for facebook soon if ye on sky aswell. PUREE PISSTAKEE!!!
mattOct 26th 2009 2:48PM
AMEN Wendy
BethanyOct 26th 2009 3:03PM
I agree with Wendy... if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
DeniseOct 26th 2009 3:08PM
I am really getting p**sed with trying to sign on to Facebook. Last week two days in a row and again today I can't sign on due to "maintenance". What a load of crap. Leave Facebook alone, it was fine the way it was. Why fix something that isn't broke.
SandynSoCalOct 26th 2009 3:25PM
The problem is, if you do the update that they describe above, you won't see any pics or videos that your friends post. It's not worth it.
MFinnOct 26th 2009 3:39PM
Ummm, yes you can. Simply click on "News Feed" in the left hand column and it shows the latest slobbering baby pictures, link of Michael Jackson's ghost and whoever bought a chicken in Farmville. Making the status updates your DEFAULT only means you won't get barraged with all that other extraneous stuff as soon as you log on. For me, it's nice because sometimes the people posting tons of links & photos push away other people's status updates.
KimOct 26th 2009 3:28PM
@Denise I am so having that problem for 2 weeks now! cant log in at all even the new FB application for blackberry is messed up! and what is so annoying is that you just cant get a hold of anyone from FB to ask questions! dont know if my account is being hacked or what!
CATANDY6469Oct 26th 2009 3:33PM
I wish that each page could be seperate, I have my lists set up, and yes it is easy for people to hide you, but I'd like seperate pages.
VjOct 26th 2009 3:36PM
No crybabies.... who's crying are the FB creators, they keep complaining it's a free service. Then they spend their time changing things. Leave it as is. BTW that 'help suggestion' above doesn't work. If your friends post pics, post status updates from an iphone, post videos, they don't show up in the Status Updates. I don't need all the pics and who's friended who in my news feed! They should have kept the videos and pics on the right hand side and let you CHOOSE if you wanted to look at them instead of being force fed. They do these changes every so often and it screws up things for a few days. I know a LARGE group of us are ready to leave FB and go back to Myspace. At least they don't keep changing things, which disrupts the service provided.
KimOct 26th 2009 5:47PM
ditto!! good thing I never deleted my Myspace account!
oncegain1011Oct 26th 2009 4:11PM
MFinn... if you have any friends that use an iPhone or such, to update their status, you WILL NOT see it on the "Status Update" section. "Switched" needs to check things out completely before printing a 'fix'. You're right, having all of the other things on the Live Feed takes up too much space. They need to put it back to the right so we have a CHOICE if we what to see it.
Another fix circulating is clicking on "edit options" at bottom of page and changing the number of friends to 5000 (even if you don't have that many) will set it back to the way it was.... that doesn't work either.
HeatherOct 26th 2009 4:23PM
Call people crybabies all you want but when changes are made that don't IMPROVE the site, what is the point? Faceboook is borderline obnoxious at this point and hopefully someone will come up with something better and Facebook becomes a thing of the past. Who gives a crap who is now friends with who? Most retarded change I have ever seen.
passionaterage63Oct 26th 2009 4:58PM
It's SOOOOO funny seeing all the facebook people get upset about the comments.....lol. Get with it people, there's a real world out here, you don't have to use facebook. It's ridiculous to me that people write down every minute thought, or every single boring thing they're doing at the time,or what they're thinking about doing later, and the other facebook addicts eat it up, and even post responses about what THEY think about the boring thought that someone else just had. What a sad life you people have!......lololol
ChadOct 26th 2009 5:06PM
What I want to know is what did they do with my friends? When I click on friends now it very prominently says "You have no friends. Let us help you find some now." So I only see things I post on my wall and people's replies.
techydudeOct 26th 2009 6:02PM
go forth & multiply with your cry-baby judgement. i'm NOT one who has 2749 "friends", so the way it was was just fine thanks. i dont mind features to help those who do have heaps of "friends", but for Facebook to foist it as the default was just rude - again. thanks for the tip though!
g35bruceOct 26th 2009 6:00PM
LEAVE IT ALONE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?????