Facebook News Feed is clean, but will users 'Like' it? [Video chat]

By Salvador Rodriguez

March 7, 2013, 1:43 p.m.

In a video posted Thursday, Facebook explains that its renovated News Feed is intended to clean up the site's design.

The new version of the feature has bigger picture thumbnails, shows larger maps when friends check in and shows larger previews for articles users share.

Facebook has also introduced a feed switch, so users can toggle between the type of content that they want to look at. This includes photo feeds, music feeds, all friends feeds and others.

LIVE DISCUSSION: Join us at 2:30 p.m.

"By providing these different feeds, that really empowers people to see the things they care about most," a Facebook employee says in the YouTube video.

In pictures and on video, the new design looks clean, but will users embrace it? We'll discuss this at 2:30 p.m.

If you want the new version of News Feed, you can sign up at facebook.com/newsfeed.

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JimWangsness at 7:55 AM March 08, 2013

The changes they've made are fine, I suppose. The problem is there is information overload with all these snippets of text and graphics flashing at us from all directions on the internet; and Facebook is just more source of this saturation. Maybe I'm resisting the ADHD causing overload of information that some must enjoy, because all I want to do is shut it out and simplify what I'm seeing on my screen. But this is becoming increasingly difficult to do. Facebook used to be sorta fun and simple, but now it's become more invasive. It wants to weave our friends personal lives into ours--along with lots of advertising that's based on our specific interests. I feel hounded.

mtang65 at 4:15 PM March 07, 2013

I, for one, dont' give a flying bleep about Facebook............

ProfKnowItAll at 2:43 PM March 07, 2013

Great. Because everyone always loves it so much when Facebook does redesigns. Can they just frigging settle on something and not change it for like 2 or 3 years?

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