Facebook’s new Friends-only feed ditches all the algorithmic junk

Facebook is trying to spell backmost to its roots with a caller “Friends” tab that filters retired the algorithmic recommendations that person taken implicit its main feed. The caller tab is rolling retired successful the US and Canada, and volition amusement your friends’ stories, reels, posts, and birthdays.

In a blog station announcing the feature, the institution says, “Over the years, Facebook evolved to conscionable changing needs and created best-in-class experiences crossed Groups, Video, Marketplace and more, but the magic of friends has fallen away.”

Facebook antecedently housed person requests and person suggestions wrong the Friends tab, but present it’s been replaced by a dedicated friends-only feed. I’m not definite I’ll find galore caller posts there, but it mightiness beryllium a reprieve from the sponsored contented and random radical posts that person drowned retired each different contented connected my location feed. Last year, Facebook announced that it’s adding new “Local” and “Explore” tabs with adjacent much contented recommendations.

You tin entree the Friends tab from the navigation barroom successful the Facebook app. You tin besides pin it to your navigation barroom by selecting the app’s three-bar icon and past selecting the settings icon. 

From there, take Settings > Tab bar, and take the tabs you privation to pin.

The level says it volition adhd “several ‘OG’ Facebook experiences passim the year” arsenic portion of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s program to make the level much similar it was “back successful the day.”