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5 Easy Tips That Will Greatly Improve Your Facebook User Experience

Social media can go a lot smoother once you know how to set it up more to your liking

Andrew Martin
4 min readSep 12, 2024

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Love it or hate it, Facebook has become an integral part of life for many people around the world. The social media platform is a common way to get news and stay in touch with friends and family. It has many different components and is under constant change, so staying on top of your account and getting the most out of it can be difficult to say the least. Here are five easy but lesser known tips to greatly improve your Facebook user experience.

Customize Your News Feed

Most Facebookers don’t realize how much control they actually have over what appears in their News Feed. The platform’s algorithm strives to show users the content it thinks will be engaged with, but this is AI-driven and often depends on recent clicks or searches instead of actual strong interest. To combat this, users can take matters into their own hands with a few short steps:

Prioritize Favorite Friends and Pages- In settings, go to News Feed Preferences and select “Prioritize who to see first”. You can then choose up to 30 friends or Pages whose posts you wish to have appear at the top of your feed. This will help ensure that…

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Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin

Written by Andrew Martin

Dabbler in soccer, history, investing & writing. Master’s degree in baseball history. Passionate about history, diversity, culture, sports, film and investing .

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