Facebook posts from friends, pages, groups will live in Feeds. Home will become a discovery engine, fueled by engagement and context.
What’s new: Users will start seeing these changes starting today:
- The Home tab will include more personalized content recommendations, with a greater emphasis on Reels and Stories.
- A new Feeds tab that will allow users to see posts from friends, groups and Pages in reverse chronological order.
The rollout is expected to take about a week. These changes will come to the desktop later this year.
How Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the change. “One of the most requested features for Facebook is to make sure people don’t miss friends’ posts. So today we’re launching a Feeds tab where you can see posts from your friends, groups, Pages and more separately in chronological order. The app will still open to a personalized feed on the Home tab, where our discovery engine will recommend the content we think you’ll care most about. But the Feeds tab will give you a way to customize and control your experience further.”
What it looks like. Here’s a screenshot Facebook shared:
Official announcement. Facebook has published the official news announcement here.
Why we care. This has the potential to be a big “meh” or it could end up being a significant opportunity for marketers. This change shouldn’t impact advertising, as Facebook Ads will continue to appear in the Feed. But there is potential that video content could go viral if it gets enough engagement and sends the right signals (e.g., related engagement, related topics, locations) to Facebook’s machine-learning algorithms.
The future is now. In 2016, Zuckerberg said: “We see a world that is video-first with video at the heart of all of our apps and services.” It took six years, and the explosive growth of TikTok, but we continue to watch this major shift for Facebook from being a social network to becoming more of a TikTok-like content discovery engine.