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Filters Make Facebook News More Appealing

By Scott Gilbertson August 13, 2008 Categories: Web Basics

FacebooklogoYour Facebook News Feed will soon offer some additional filtering tools to help you focus on the news you care about, but unfortunately there’s still no sign of the much-needed RSS feed.

The new features haven’t gone live for everyone yet, but when they do you should see a new drop-down menu that allows you to filter your news feed by friend or by specific kinds of news from any of the applications you have installed.

Previously, the news feed feature was somewhat limited, only allowing you to sort the list by status updates, photo updates, and “posted items.”

Of course there’s still no way to read your news feed items anywhere other than Facebook. As Michael Arrington writes over at TechCrunch, “if we could just get a RSS feed of all those streams out of Facebook, they’d cement themselves as the permanent hub of all that data.”

In the mean time, while the new filters can help narrow your focus to only the news you care about, you’re still stuck logging into the site to get your updates.

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