Get out of the Facebook mess quickly and easily

OK, so the Facebook monkeys got out of the cage and messed up your feed, my feed and the feed of most of the planet it seems. Tickertape boxes, recent stories, total mess, right? Your screen may look something like this:

We've got that damn annoying tickertape box (1) which is one of THE most irritating things I've seen on Facebook - this is a reminder of those marquee scrolling bars from the bad old design days of the late 90s. Then you've got some damn stupid recent stories thing (2)that's about 3 days old and which aren't stories you're interested in at all. Then you have, hiding in plain view, a solution - your lists at (3).

Click on the lists option - it should break open on the screen to give you a listing. Yours will be different to mine, but don't fret.

 
Now, you can either click on one of the list options, in which case skip on an image or two, or you can click to Create a list.

  
Give your list a name of some sort.

Then click on 'Manage list' and 'Add/Remove Friends'.

This'll pop you up a list of your friends. Simply click on the ones that you want to add to the group. If you don't have a lot, and want to get back towards the 'old style' Facebook page, click on all of them. If you have thousands of friends - well... sorry. That's a lotta clicking, but you shouldn't be so damn popular should you? When you've populated your list, save it. Then go back to your Facebook page and click on the list. This is what you'll get:

We now have a nice little news stream (1) for what everyone in the list (ie. all your friends or subset thereof) are up to, no recent stories rubbish and just a list of members (2) where the tickertape was previously. Keep clicking no to the list suggestions and get rid of those and it'll be even neater.

In future, just click on the list you created, or any others that you have put together. You'll feel happier.

And so, that's the end of the story except... while we'll all running around doing stuff like this, and getting all annoyed and excited about it, I wonder what exactly Facebook is REALLY doing in that backroom of theirs? Cos y'know.. call me paranoid if you like, but this just looks like diversionary stuff to me. I don't know if it's the new Timeline thing they're threatening, or something else, but keep out  an open eye!

Comments

[Vicky Ayech]

I made the list and clicked and can see the posts but did not see the list suggestions you say I should say no to