The most awaiting and expected update from Facebook this year has finally came out today at an event at Facebook HQ in Menlo park. Facebook has released a new design to its users which they will be experiencing soon.The new designs features bigger photos and links with personalized streams focused on topics like music and posts by close friends.This news feed will let users to be more interactive with their circle of influence. They can have much better and vast ground to cover on their news feed rather then searching throughout the Facebook. According to Mark-Zukerberg this will be a Personalized newspaper. This new design was basically made keeping the phone version of Facebook in mind. When you will get the update you will notice that its same as you use Facebook on your phone with a menu bar on the left side.
Mark Zukerberg said “Facebook mission is to make the world more open and connected”. News feed is the very important part in Facebook. When a user log in to his account the first page he encounters is his News Feed. If the News Feed is made more interactive and informative (means all information of your friends activity in detail) then Facebook mission is accomplished.
The new design comprises of three features :
Rich Stories - Visual and Engaging news feed with more interactive stories.
Choice of Feed – Dig into any story which you want with high level personalization.
Mobile Consistency – Mobile inspired User interface. Same Facebook experience on Mobile and Desktop.
Facebook has not yet revealed the new design to all the users across the web. On Thursday, some of the users got the update but the rest will have this new look in a week. Investors are also very much excited this new look. Share prices of Facebook rose 4.1% on Tuesday to $28.58 but the stock remains lower than $38.
Lets see how this new design will be welcomed by the users. You can watch the complete event video above.
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