{"id":24851,"date":"2025-03-27T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2025-03-27T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:24:08","slug":"facebook-returns-to-its-roots-showing-posts-from-friends-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24851","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts From Friends and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user\u2019s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Meta\u2019s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking.<\/p>\n

Mr. Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm room project to a $1.5 trillion company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of the original rationale for the social network, or what he called \u201cOG Facebook\u201d vibes, Mr. Alison said in an interview. After years of adding features, the executives felt that some of Facebook\u2019s key functions were being drowned out.<\/p>\n

So they asked themselves: Why not try building some features that resembled the Facebook of yore a bit more?<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Meta did just that with a simple tweak. The company said the Facebook app would now include a separate news feed for users that featured posts shared exclusively by people\u2019s friends and family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The feature, called the Friends Tab, will replace a tab in the app that showed new friend requests or suggested friends. Friends Tab will instead show a scrolling feed of posts, such as photos, video stories, text, birthday notifications and friend requests. For now, it will be available to Facebook users only in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis idea of having a central place of what\u2019s going on with your friends, that was like the magic of the early days of social media,\u201d said Mr. Alison, who is head of the Facebook app. \u201cWe\u2019re making sure that there\u2019s still a place for this stuff on Facebook. It is something that shouldn\u2019t get lost in the modern social media mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user\u2019s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking.Mr. Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm room project to a $1.5 trillion company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of the original rationale for the social network, or what he called \u201cOG Facebook\u201d vibes, Mr. Alison said in an interview. After years of adding features, the executives felt that some of Facebook\u2019s key functions were being drowned out.So they asked themselves: Why not try building some features that resembled the Facebook of yore a bit more?On Thursday, Meta did just that with a simple tweak. The company said the Facebook app would now include a separate news feed for users that featured posts shared exclusively by people\u2019s friends and family.The feature, called the Friends Tab, will replace a tab in the app that showed new friend requests or suggested friends. Friends Tab will instead show a scrolling feed of posts, such as photos, video stories, text, birthday notifications and friend requests. For now, it will be available to Facebook users only in the United States and Canada.\u201cThis idea of having a central place of what\u2019s going on with your friends, that was like the magic of the early days of social media,\u201d said Mr. Alison, who is head of the Facebook app. \u201cWe\u2019re making sure that there\u2019s still a place for this stuff on Facebook. It is something that shouldn\u2019t get lost in the modern social media mix.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24853,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24854,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions\/24854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}