This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Viewing the News Feed
The status updates in your Facebook news feed are displayed more or less in reverse chronological order. This means that the most recent updates are at the top and the older ones are at the bottom—with the notable exception that Top Stories appear before Recent Stories. To view even older updates, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Older Posts button.
Click News Feed in the navigation column on the left to display the news feed.
By default, Facebook displays your Top Stories first. To instead display the Most Recent stories first, click the Sort link at the top of the news feed and select Most Recent from the pop-up menu.
NOTE: Top Stories and Recent Stories
Facebook divides the news feed into Top Stories and Recent Stories. Top Stories are those updates that Facebook thinks are most important; Recent Stories are everything else.
NOTE: Posting Rules—Not
Your friends are likely to post about what they’re doing and what they’re thinking. Some people post once a day, some post once a week, some post several times a day, and some don’t post much at all. There are no rules or guidelines as to how often someone should post or what they should post about, so you never know what your friends will post.
If the post contains a photograph, click the photo to display it in a larger viewing window (called the lightbox).
Click the X (or press the Esc key on your keyboard) to close the lightbox and return to your news feed.
NOTE: Non-PC Posts
If a friend posts from somewhere other than the Facebook page on his personal computer, you see this underneath the post, in the form of an icon for that particular device or service. Posts can also be made from cell phones using text messaging or via third-party applications, such as TweetDeck and Foursquare, which automate posting to Facebook and other social networking sites.
If the post contains a video, click the video thumbnail to begin playback within the news feed.
If the post contains a link to another web page, click the link to open that page in a new tab in your web browser.
NOTE: Web Page Images
Most web links in Facebook status updates are accompanied by an image from the linked-to web page.
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