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1. I intend to ask this question from those who don’t like the redesign in October 2009: “Had you been using Facebook before March 2009?”

The reason is that I was fine with Facebook’s newsfeed prior March 2009. When they redesigned to move to content in March 2009, I backed out from the site. Then I love it again after the October 2009.

2. A note on usability: “Edit Options” of Live Feed should be put on top of the newsfeed, where “News Feed” and “Live Feed” are, not at the bottom

3. Things Facebook can improve:

• Categorize feed items. Some want to filter types of items. e.g. hide “my friend adds abc as friend” items
• “Show More” should also provide options for feed item type, besides friends

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Addendum

This is my explanation to my friends who are not familiar with the history and the story behind:

Before March 2009, the newsfeed had contained personal updates from your friends. e.g. photos, relationship, updates of profile, who makes friend with whom. I name this “Relationship”. Additionally, they had been experimenting a primitive Live Feed

In March 2009, FB redesigned the newsfeed and it was swarmed with games, quizzes and other application updates. I name this “Content”. A pseudo-live feed was provided, but you have to click “n updates” to see these updates - a pain.

In October 2009 which is the current, the newsfeed blends between Relationship and Content. The Live Feed is also smooth and automatically scrolling…. Read More

I personally love the October 2009 one.

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The story behind Relationship and Content relate to competitive & strategic moves between Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg and other services.