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Facebook is testing a News Feed for loners
Facebook had a little to say to Business insider: "This is a test we're running to a small percentage of users who have very few friends on Facebook. This is simply to help them discover interesting content and create an instantly valuable experience for them."
We can see from the picture (helpfully annotated by 'hotlou') that these friendless Facebookers no longer have the option of 'Top news' or 'Most recent' -- instead, they will be presented with a News Feed showing the most-liked and most-commented items on Facebook. It's a bit like Twitter's trending topics even...
What I want to know is where the 'cut off' for this new feature lies. I have 150 friends (which I've always thought as quite low!), but I don't have the option of seeing this new feed. Is there anyone else out there that can see the new feed -- and if so, how many friends do you have?
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Subscribe to commentsJayenkaiJun 23rd 2010 11:43AM
So.. If I try to make my newspage a little less "FARMVILLE!!! I WANT A COW!!!!" by removing all the idiots, it'll fill itself back up again.
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*sigh*
MedlirJun 23rd 2010 11:51AM
I have 48, and it's not available. But I wouldn't consider 150 or 48 to be low. I would think single digits at least. With 48 and Applications blocked, and several friends content hidden as well, there's still more content in my feeds than I care to keep up to date with unless I really wanted to spend 10 minutes of every hour on Facebook.
OzHuckJun 23rd 2010 12:05PM
I only have 20 friends and I don't see this special feed
Sebastian AnthonyJun 23rd 2010 12:06PM
Dang... it must be VERY low then, or a geolocated beta test or something :)
hotlouJun 23rd 2010 12:05PM
Hi Sebastian -
The account has 13 friends -- but they are some of the best test-friends that a test-account could ever ask for. :)
hotlou
Sebastian AnthonyJun 23rd 2010 12:07PM
Haha -- I wondered if I would draw you out :P
Thank you for the info -- and for being a good sport!
VrinskJun 24th 2010 10:52AM
I have 69 friends in my personal account which is more than 50 so I guess it wouldn't be available for me anyway.