Customize What You See in News Feed

The Facebook News Feed can get overwhelming at times, and you often see trivial updates from acquaintances, while missing important posts from people you care about. To avoid this, Facebook has finally introduced News Feed Preferences to prioritize what you see in the news feed. With the new preferences, you can:

• Prioritize your friends so the important people show up first. Just tap to star your favorites, Facebook will make sure their posts pop up first.
• Unfollow acquaintances in bulk, so that you still appear as friends without seeing their posts in your timeline. It’s on the best ways to clean up your news feed.
• Reconnect with people you unfollowed, just in case you made a mistake.
• Follow brands and pages in bulk.

This option is already available in the iOS app and has rolled out to a few Android users, but will be available across Android and Web in the coming weeks, so be patient if you don’t already see it.

Add a Legacy Contact to Handle Your Account After You Die

Once you die, what happens to your Facebook account, with all your messages and photos and data? Much like you’d make a will to give your physical assets to a loved one, Facebook lets you give control of your account to someone.
It’s called a Legacy Contact, and it’s pretty easy to add one. Just choose someone from your Facebook friends, and choose whether you want them to be able to download an archive of all your photos, posts and profile information.

• Your Legacy Contact will be given the ability to write a post at the top of your timeline, respond to friend requests, and change the profile and cover photos.
• Your Legacy Contact cannot impersonate you. They can talk on your account, but only as themselves, not as you.
• You can also choose to not add a Legacy Contact and instead delete your account on your death.

For a more comprehensive handover of all your digital accounts, one simple trick can protect your online legacy.

Look Through Your FB History with On This Day

You can check your history any time by visiting Facebook.com/OnThisDay, but you won’t always get a hit. Instead, switch on the notifications for OnThisDay, so that whenever there’s a historical event, it will either show up in your News Feed or Facebook will alert you about that event.
And just like any post, you can share that memory with your friends. Cool, right?

Create a Private, Controlled Scrapbook of Your Child’s Photos

If you’re on Facebook, you can’t escape photos of children posted by proud parents. But parents also want to protect their child’s online persona and make sure all the photos are in one place, and that they have control over who sees them. Facebook’s new Scrapbook is the best way to handle your kid’s pictures.

• Any adult and their partner can set up a digital scrapbook for their child by going to About > Family and Relationships > Create a Scrapbook.
• Only the two partners can control the scrapbook, and only the two partners can tag the child in a photo.
• Choose a tag for your child, like his/her name, or “kiddo”, or whatever. Any photo where either partner uses that tag will automatically be added to the scrapbook.
• The partners can customize the privacy settings for each photo, and will get a notification if a picture has been set to “Public” or not.

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