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Facebook Updates How You Control Your News Feed

While this helps you to prioritise your News Feed, people who use Facebook as a marketing tool may suffer.

 

We have been witnessing lately that Facebook is concentrating more on bringing out a balance as to how the stories are being offered to its users.

Recently, Facebook also confirmed that it is reconfiguring the way News Feed works.

However, now, the social media giant has announced that they have come up with some updated controls to help prioritise stories and make sure that you would not be missing out posts from particular friends and Pages.

Going on the terms that News Feed is there for you to know what matters most to you, it seems that Facebook has expanded the News Feed Preferences.

Now, you can select which friends and Pages you would like to see at the top of your News Feed.

Facebook has also come up with this video to understand more as to how these updated controls for News Feed work.

Until now, Facebook has been using algorithms and rank the stories by believing how interesting they might be to you.

With this latest update, you can add Facebook pages of some newspapers and blogs and your News Feed will turn into a news reader, while at the same time, adding some fashion brands and e-commerce platforms will make it a shopping discovery site.

Adding more on to this, we can say that while the new controls come in, users start adding only a few of their favourite pages to the list which means that, only those stories that belong to premier brands and public figures come up first in the News Feed at the cost of other Pages which eventually show up further down the feed.

However, we can sense how useful the new controls could be for regular users, while it may turn out to be disastrous for those people who use News Feed as a marketing tool.

Speaking about the availability of the new ways to control your News Feed, it is said to be available now on iOS while it will be rolling out on Android and desktop over the coming weeks.

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