hi everyone in this video I'm going to be showing you how to customize your
facebook news feed yes you can actually customize your newsfeed you can
prioritize what friends what pages you'd like to see first in your newsfeed
in addition to that I'm going to be showing you some features that Facebook
has that you might not be aware of and how it can help your experience in your
news feet first and foremost I just want to put this out front
is that what i'm going to be showing you is done in the desktop version and will
also work on the laptop version and the tablet version of Facebook you will not
see these settings in your mobile app however once you've created these or
edited these settings your mobile viewing should be a lot better and
you'll be seeing what you want to see so with that let's get started first off
want to go over to the newsfeed and we're going to hover over that and then
we're going to click on the down arrow and we'll see two options top stories
and most reason top stories by default is checked but you can also select most
recent top stories as you can see is things that are liked commented on and
engaged with and if it's a page like advertising age I am a fan of that page
I've like the page so I'm going to see that first on my newsfeed when I first
come to the page because it's the probably the most commented on and I'm
interested in what advertising age has to offer
however if i click on most recent it's going to show me something from a friend
in this case and it was two minutes ago now i would probably have to scroll down
a long way or a little way anyway to see what happened two minutes ago and that's
how Facebook prioritizes or organizes the algorithm it's very complex and but
in any case if you don't see something that someone posted right away
click on most recent you can always go back and forth if you log out or go to
another
browser page or open up something up in a new tab chances are facebook will say
hey let's go back to top stories
so a frequent this often and go back and forth to see what you like on the
settings I do this all the time i go back to top stories back the most recent
because it's always changing
alright so let's move on the little cog next news feed you can edit your news
feed link this is very important so we're going to click on that and when
you click on edit preferences when you have preferences you'll see take control
and customize your newsfeed I was so happy to see this
all right first we have prioritized if I can see it right prioritize who did you
see first and this is very important because it will take into account all
the pages that you follow your brands that you like and all that and all of
your friends and it puts it all into this all categories so you can scroll
down and click the ones that you want to prioritize that you want to see first
news feed
so you go through it and then pick them all and then if you are overwhelmed by
the amount of friends and pages that you follow you can separate it here by
friends only and pages only alright once you're done with that click done then
you go to unfollow people to hide their posts so you can go through your friends
pages and groups so you can unfollow groups so that they won't show up in
your newsfeed you can unfollow friends and pages and I like it here says only
you will know so that's pretty good
a good feature that you should know that you have that ability to now before I
saw this what i was doing is what i was going to the page physically going to
the page and clicking on follow or physically going to the friend and I'm
following them even though you're still friends
you can still unfollow them and remain friends if that makes sense and so that
is unfollow people to hide their posts
and that's a another great feature and then you can reconnect with people you
unfollowed and you can do the same thing here you can do on reconnect with
friends pages and groups just like you can unfollow you can reconnect all right
number that then you can go here and click on discover pages that match your
interest
so instead of using the search facebook facebook says hey you might be
interested in these pages want you to take a look
so you can scroll through here and you can click on one that you like and so
yeah here we go
7news I like that there you go and then when you're done with that
there we go we're done with that click done and anytime you want to change this
if you want to add people to your prioritized list if you want to remove
them if you want to unfollow people reconnect with unfollow people you do it
through that little cog facebook has made it the smallest thing on facebook
so i guess you won't edit it but now you know
alright so and that is the big piece i wanted to show you today in addition i
want to show you a few other things there is a saved link over here and so I
have saved a couple of things over the last couple years it looks like and and
say that you come across something that you really want to keep you can keep
photos products videos music a whole bunch of things and it will always be
stored there
so what you do is you go over a post whatever it is video product whatever
and click on save post and then when you save it it goes over to that saved
archive and will always be stored there and lastly real quickly I want to show
you how you can add pages and groups to your favorites so let's say you come
across a page that you really like and you want it added to the very top of
your section on facebook on the desktop laptop and tablet specifically at you
can go over to more on any page or group and you can add to favorites
ok this is your bookmarks have been added then we go back to the Facebook
homepage back your newsfeed and on the left hand side under the favorites
heading we will need now see that page we can also rearrange your favorite so
let's say you want to have the pages or groups that you most interact with at
the very top which is what I've done here you can click on rearrange so let's
say we want to drag that page up here we can do that and then at the very bottom
here we click done and there you go
so that's it so we looked at very important how to control your newsfeed
at least a little bit because you know Facebook has to make money so they'll
still be thrown ads that you and all that but you can go in and you can hide
those ads if you want you can even find out why you're being shown that maybe
that'll be in a different video I also showed you how to save a post and that
includes videos images and like you can always go refer back to it later doesn't
matter when and I've also showed you how to favorite a page or group and then how
to rearrange your favorite so you can see the most of the pages and in groups
that you boast interact with at the very top and so you don't have to hunt and
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