Facebook answers users' layout concerns with new features

In our reader poll, most of you thought Facebook should pay attention to the user backlash against its new design. Well, it turns out that they've done just that, with an in-depth blog post that acknowledges some of the main concerns people have expressed, and announces several new features due to roll out soon. One thing that's happening right away is an update to the new "highlights" sidebar that should make it more like the old Live Feed that people seem to be missing.

The upcoming features are centered around giving you more control over what you see in your activity stream. For example, autoupdating is coming back (as an optional feature) and the ability to filter out noisy apps is being introduced. Facebook is also considering decreasing the amount of one-to-one messages -- like people's wall posts to one another -- that show up in your stream, in favor of things that are more generally relevant. My personal favorite feature on Facebook's to-do list is adding tagged photos of your friends to the stream.

Since we got so much great feedback last time, let's open this up to the readers. Take this poll and let us know which of Facebook's announced improvements is your favorite, or whether they're all just hopeless.

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