Facebook Launches New Controls To Make Unfollowing Easier In News Feed

Facebook has made changes in users control over their News Feed, according to the social media network newsroom on Friday. The latest addition in the Facebook News Feed settings is an option to unfollow any friend.
“News Feed settings will now show a list of the top people, Pages and Groups that you’ve seen in your News Feed over the past week. You can choose to sort by people, Pages or Groups posts, or see an overall summary. Unfollow any friend, Page or Group if you don’t want to see their stories in your News Feed. You can also see who you’ve unfollowed in the past and can choose to re-follow them at anytime.” The new setting will also able to allow users to sort out what news feeds they want to receive from Facebook friends or see less of that person depending on the users interest. News Feed settings became available starting Friday on desktop and mobile. The new options for giving feedback about your News Feed was also made available on desktop, and coming to mobile in the coming weeks. Facebook has also earlier announced that it would start slowly taking down exaggerated headlines in News Feed links. “The goal of News Feed is to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time so they don’t miss the stories that are important and relevant to them,” the FB newsroom said in April. Facebook aim is to give readers relevant stories in their Newsfeed. “Today we are announcing a series of improvements to News Feed to reduce stories that people frequently tell us are spammy and that they don’t want to see. Many of these stories are published by Pages that deliberately try and game News Feed to get more distribution than they normally would. Our update targets three broad categories of this type of feed spam behavior,” it added.