Patrick Simpson

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How to Change the Facebook App to ‘Most Recent'

Hate the ‘Top Stories’ view on Facebook? Accidentally upgrade to the new version and can’t figure out how to change it? Figure no more!

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For over a year now, my Facebook app looked different than most users, it looks like the above. I believe Facebook has rolled out this design out to everyone at this point, and it’s just in time for me to discover this tid bit.

Facebook likes controlling what you see. They want you to see content that they think you’ll like. If you’re a liberal, and you use the ‘Top Stories’ view, and you have a significant amount of friends, you will see left-leaning stories, and hear from the friends you interact with the most. Visa versa for the other side. I’ve noticed that for me, Facebook has chosen five or six friends that they think I love hearing from, and a few pages that I like, with articles that it thinks would be compelling to me.

For me personally...

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I’m Back!

After deciding that I didn’t have enough time/too lazy to manage grapeshield.com, I’ve finally decided I’d start maybe blogging again.

For now I will be using svbtle, and not using any domain names, in order to keep things cheap and super easy for me. If I decide to dedicate more time to this, I might haul up a wordpress blog and try monetizing again.

Expect some more of the same quality (low) as you did in the past. I plan on resurrecting Beverage Reviews, but some things I’ve tried in the past, like Crazy Cha-Cha/Retail customers won’t be a thing anymore, mostly because I no longer have interesting stories… I also might try some longer opinion pieces, but we’ll see how I feel on that.

I might some day undertake the project of importing the old content back into a blog of some sort, but no one should hold their breath.

See you around!
-Patrick (Grapeshield.com)

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