One of my favourite features is the Facebook News Feed, where I can see a stream of regular updates from all my friends of what they have been doing recently.

While this feature has now been around for a few years, it was not always available. In the days prior to the Facebook News Feed, you had to visit the profile of each friend to see their latest updates. I doubt Facebook would be the success it is today without the News Feed.

It’s not all roses though. For example one of my pet hates on the Facebook News Feed is the fact that I constantly see updates from my friends about games they are playing. I don’t really have a lot of interest on playing games on Facebook, so to be honest I couldn’t care less what level of Farmville some of my friends are on, or who they’ve managed to order a hit against on Mafia Wars.

MANAGE YOUR FACEBOOK NEWS FEED

However, did you know that it is possible to manage your Facebook News Feed and hide these game updates from your stream, without removing the person from your friend list?

With this in mind, I’ve put together a short video in which I will show you how to get the most out of the Facebook News Feed.

Topics covered in the video include: 

• The difference between Recent News and Top News
• How to prevent certain content appearing on your Facebook News Feed
• How to increase the number of updates appearing in your Facebook News Feed from specific friends
• How to amend the Facebook News Feed settings
   

I hope you find these tips useful.

If you have any questions please let me know in the comments.