Press Release: Facebook Introduces The Subscribe Button A New Way to Fine Tune Your News Feed
Awesome. I unfriended people in the past which posted too much.
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From: Kyla Keefe <kkeefe@theoutcastagency.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Subject: Facebook Introduces The Subscribe Button A New Way to Fine Tune Your News Feed
To: Kyla Keefe <kkeefe@theoutcastagency.com>
Hi,
Today Facebook announced the Subscribe button, a feature that lets you control what types of stories you get from your friends and non-friends in your News Feed. The feature will begin rolling out to everyone on Facebook today, with full roll out in the coming days.
Subscribe will help you decide:
· How much you want to see: Decide if you want to see everything, the top stories or nothing at all
· What kinds of stuff you do and don’t want to see: Filter on Photos, Game stories etc.
It is important to note, this is is an optional feature. Unless you choose to change what type of content you want to see from your friends, your experience will not change and you will continue to see what you already see from your friends.
With the Subscribe button you can hear from interesting people you’re not friends with—like journalists, artists and political figures. If you see a Subscribe button on your favorite blogger’s profile, this means you can subscribe. Just click the button to get their public updates right in your News Feed.If you’d like to share your public updates with more than just friends, you too can add a Subscribe button to your profile.
I’ve included the blog below, as well as screenshots attached. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions at press@fb.com
Thanks,
Kyla
Introducing the Subscribe Button
By Blake Ross
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150280039742131
Until now, it hasn’t been easy to choose exactly what you see in your News Feed. Maybe you don’t want to see every time your brother plays a game on Facebook, for example. Or maybe you’d like to see more stories from your best friends, and fewer from your coworkers.
You also couldn’t hear directly from people you’re interested in but don’t know personally—like journalists, artists and political figures.
With the Subscribe button, we’re making it easier to do both. In the next few days, you’ll start seeing this button on friends’ and others’ profiles. You can use it to:
1. Choose what you see from people in News Feed
2. Hear from people, even if you’re not friends
3. Let people hear from you, even if you’re not friends
Choose What You See in News Feed
You’re already getting your friends’ posts in News Feed. With the Subscribed button, you can choose how much you see from them:
• All updates: Everything your friend posts
• Most updates: The amount you’d normally see
• Important updates only: Just highlights, like a new job or move
You can also decide what types of updates you see. For example, you could see just photos from one friend, no stories about games from another, and nothing at all from someone else.
Choosing what you see is optional. If don’t want to change what you see from someone, just ignore the button.
Subscribe to Interesting People
The Subscribe button also lets you hear from interesting people you’re not friends with—like journalists, artists and political figures.
If you see a Subscribe button on your favorite blogger’s profile, this means you can subscribe. Just click the button to get their public updates right in your News Feed.
Just like with friends, you can choose how many and what types of updates you see after you’ve subscribed.
Get Your Own Subscribers
If you’d like to share your public updates with more than just friends, you can get a Subscribe button on your profile, too. People who subscribe to you will get posts you set as “Public” in their News Feeds. This is an entirely optional feature – you need to opt in.
To let people subscribe, go to the Subscriptions page http://www.facebook.com/about/subscriptions and click Allow Subscribers.
Once you allow subscribers, you can decide who can comment and what notifications you get. You’ll also see a Subscribers tab on your profile, where you can find out who subscribes to you.
Let Us Know What You Think
We’d love to know how you feel about the Subscribe button. <Contact us><https://www.facebook.com/help/contact_us.php?id=17282865946062> to give feedback!
Learn More
To learn more about the Subscribe button or allow subscribers, visit the <Help Center><http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=246210718757459
