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    How to Fine Tune Your Facebook News Feed Like a Boss

    Don't like what you see in your Facebook's news feed? Do the company's algorithms that determine what you see drive you nuts? Are you missing out on important content from friends? Are you fed up with seeing what people are pinning on Pinterest?

    There are ways to kick your Facebook news feed into shape. By customizing what your news feed delivers, you can tailor content to your liking. The result: Every time you fire up Facebook, you're only going to see stuff that interests you.

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    SEE ALSO: How to Get Old Facebook Back

    Take a look through our simple gallery, which offers a quick how-to on great native solutions for customizing your news feed. Let us know in the comments what kind of updates you'd banish forever.

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    1. Top Stories or Most Recent

    The quickest and easiest edit to your news feed is to be found at the top of your home page.

    Click on "Sort" and you get the option to see just "Top stories" or "Most recent."

    "Top stories" means you're letting Facebook's algorithms decide what's most important.

    Facebook says this is decided by "lots of factors," including your relationship to the person who posted the story, how many comments and likes it got, what type of story it is, etc.

    The "Most Recent" option will return to your news feed to a more chronological order.

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    This story originally published on Mashable here.

     

    11 comments

    • Bob  •  Santa Fe, New Mexico  •  3 mths ago
      Don't fall prey to Facebook. You will never have privacy again.
      • Rogue74 3 mths ago
        Don't be silly...I have facebook, and have all of the privacy i want...People GIVE UP thier privacy by putting Private information on a public website...if you dont want someone to know something...Don't past it on a global forum...and by the way, I don't think it says anywhere in the bill of rights of the United States of America, that you have a right to privacy..if so..please share it.
      • Bob 3 mths ago
        So, you're a communist then?
    • Joe 6Pack  •  3 mths ago
      1. Fluff Busting Purity
      2. AdBlock

      Those two restore FB to a usable website.
    • Yahoo User  •  3 mths ago
      the title should be changed to: "how to become a more attractive product for facebook to sell your information to advertisers" or something like that i guess
    • William S  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      I fine tuned my Facebook account right off the web!
      Terminated!
    • Mark  •  3 mths ago
      Facebook is like sticking your head in a bee hive -- so much #$%$ buzzing. . . .
    • Rickie  •  3 mths ago
      What do I think? I think FB is the biggest timesuck on the planet next to midget porn.
      • Torrell 3 mths ago
        Midget porn is much better then facebook.
      • MattG 3 mths ago
        Are you implying that midget porn is a waste of time?
    • Peeping Tom  •  3 mths ago
      Add me on FB! I'm disguised as a bodybuilder named Max!!
      • Ken 3 mths ago
        You look more like the nutty drama teacher Sikowitz from my kids' favorite show, Victorious.
    • Paul  •  Wichita, Kansas  •  3 mths ago
      Now, if we just had a liberal bias filter for Yahoo, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and almost every newspaper in the US.......oh wait, can't have THAT much dead air space....
    • Ken  •  3 mths ago
      So the whole point of this article is "Switch between Top Stories and Most Recent"? Gee, good waste of space, people! Besides, it doesn't work; every god_damned day it resets to Top Stories, and I have to switch it back to Most Recent!
    • Anna  •  3 mths ago
      that's it? switch to most recent? wow, only one way to "fine-tune" it, facebook blows nowadays.
    • Jerry  •  Sunnyvale, California  •  3 mths ago
      #$%$ is FACEBOOK?
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