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Facebook’s new ‘Feeds’ tab chronologically displays posts from your friends and groups

Facebook is revamping its main news feed and launching a new “Feeds” tab where users can see posts from their friends, groups, pages and more in chronological order, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The Feeds tab won’t show any “Suggested For You” posts. Zuckerberg also announced that “Home” is the new name of the tab you first see when you open Facebook. The Home feed is where you will see TikTok-like personalized recommendations for Reels and Stories. The two tabs will be accessible from both the iOS and Android versions of the Facebook app.

“One of the most requested features for Facebook is to make sure people don’t miss friends’ posts,” Zuckerberg said in an announcement post. “So today we’re launching a Feeds tab where you can see posts from your friends, groups, Pages and more separately in chronological order. The app will still open to a personalized feed on the Home tab, where our discovery engine will recommend the content we think you’ll care most about. But the Feeds tab will give you a way to customize and control your experience further.”

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Facebook differentiates between the two feeds by noting that Home is a discovery engine for you to find new content and creators through algorithmic recommendations, whereas the Feeds tab provides an easy way to access content from the people and communities you’re already connected with on Facebook.

It’s worth noting that there may be some overlap between the two feeds, as Facebook says some of your friends’ posts may still appear in the Home tab, and that the Feeds tab will feature some ads as well.

The new Feeds tab is a return to Facebook’s basic social media experience where your feed is mainly focused on activity and posts from your friends and groups. However, the revamped Home feed shows Meta’s continued desire to chase TikTok, which is its current biggest threat. Given the fact that the algorithmic Home feed is what users will see when they first open the Facebook app, it’s easy to see where Meta’s priorities lie.

After years of people complaining, Facebook has finally added a way to view your posts in chronological order. Soon, you will be able to toggle into a “Feeds” button on the top of the Facebook app so you can view posts in chronological order from either Friends, Groups, and Pages.

Twitter and Instagram have also recently caved to the roaring cacophony of their users chanting, “we hate the algorithm WE HATE THE ALGORITHM.” In 2018, Twitter rolled out a little twinkle button that allows you to switch to a chronological feed. And just this spring, Instagram added a tool so that you can sort a select group of favorite accounts in reverse-chronological order. All three methods involve a little work on your end to make it happen; it’s not by default, you have to tap into it. For Instagram, the non-algorithmic feed won’t show up on your main feed once you close and reopen the app, and neither will the Facebook one.

Although users HATE the feeling that they’re being served algorithmic content, Facebook and Instagram have claimed for years that in testing, users prefer it over seeing less desirable (yet timely) posts. For Instagram, having new content each time you open the app — rather than just what’s been posted since you last opened it 30 minutes ago — has helped keep people glued to the app.

If you hate getting random algorithmic stuff on Facebook, don't celebrate just yet. There's a suggestion that the Home feed (which you'll see first when you open the app) will focus more heavily than before on Reels and suggested content.

Facebook's official announcement says, "As Home becomes more of a discovery engine for you to find and follow new content and creators through recommendations, the Feeds tab provides an easy way to access the content from the people and communities you’re already connected with on Facebook." [emphasis mine]. Basically, expect that the Home feed is going to be more TikTok-ified with Reels than ever before.

Facebook’s News Feed has gone through constant overhauls over the years. At one point, people were seeing tons of content from pages and publishers like BuzzFeed, but not that much from their friends. Around 2015, the platform tried to correct this by prioritizing friends’ posts in your feed, which led to a different and new folly: the overnight oats problem (when a friend posted something banal like “anyone tried overnight oats,” Facebook treated it like the most important thing and would constantly “stick” it to the top of people’s feeds). A few years later, a shift to prioritizing "engagement" meant that posts with a lot of comments would stick to the top of your feed — if your friends kept commenting on one bad video, it would appear each time you opened Facebook for days.

Offering a reverse-chronological feed that requires a few taps to access is unlikely to solve all of Facebook’s problems. It’s a crumb of bread to toss out to the hungry masses, a weak olive branch. It’s offering up what people have asked for, but Facebook knows this is what really truly people want and that this won’t address deeper systemic issues within the News Feed. But maybe, just maybe, this will cut the company a short reprieve from the heat of lawmakers threatening regulation.

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