Facebook Brings Back Chronological Feed

Facebook has finally restored the ability to view your news feed in simple chronological order, with the newest posts first. However, this option is slowly rolling out and isn’t available to everyone yet.

Recently, Facebook introduced the idea of “Top Posts” and defaulted to showing users the posts they thought would most interest them at the top of the feed. Apparently the back-lash was strong enough that Facebook listened and restores users’ ability to view their feed in the more reasonable order.

If you don’t already, you will soon see the Sort dropdown at the top of your news feed:

This is a new option from Facebook itself, not something added by Social Fixer. Simply selecting “Recent Stories First” will restore your chronological news feed. And possibly your sanity.

When you choose this option, you should also change the Social Fixer preferences to turn off its option to put the news feed in chronological order:

This change should make lots of users happy. It seems that I often “fix” problems like this that Facebook forces on its users, only to have them change code later and make my fix unnecessary. This is fine by me – I’d like to think that Social Fixer gives Facebook a little window into the options that its users would like to have, and if they build them into the site itself, then that’s even better for everyone!