{"id":2676,"date":"2015-09-22T16:53:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:53:25","slug":"show-only-most-recent-facebook-news-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"show only most recent facebook news feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: I did this in Chrome &#8211; it&#8217;ll be a little different in other browsers)<\/p>\n<p>I have several complaints about the book of the face &#8211; not least of which is that it likes to reset your News Feed from &#8220;Most Recent&#8221; (aka most useful) to &#8220;Top Stories&#8221; (aka whatever Facebook wants you to see).<\/p>\n<p>I also like to avoid the fluff off the other columns (ads, games, groups, pages, chat, etc) when all I want is the most recent stream. So, after some searching, fiddling, and tweaking, I now have my news feed (and only my news feed) appear on the side of my screen in chronological order.<\/p>\n<h3>How to do what I did:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>install the <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/auto-refresh\/ifooldnmmcmlbdennkpdnlnbgbmfalko?hl=en-US\">Auto Refresh<\/a> extension for Chrome (only if you want the news feed to automatically update)<\/li>\n<li>go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/home.php?sk=h_chr\">https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/home.php?sk=h_chr<\/a> (this is the <em>mobile<\/em> Facebook view sorted by chronological order)\u00a0in a new\u00a0<em>window<\/em> (not new tab)<\/li>\n<li>right-click on the tab holding the mobile Facebook feed, and select Pin Tab<\/li>\n<li>click the Auto Refresh extension button and select how often you want your feed to refresh, and click Start<\/li>\n<li>resize the window to a comfortable reading width (mine is about 15% of my screen, or about 3&#8243;)<\/li>\n<li>slide it all the way to one side of your screen or another<\/li>\n<li>enjoy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are some other ways to accomplish more-or-less the same thing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bookmark the mobile news feed URL<\/li>\n<li>set the mobile news feed URL as your home page<\/li>\n<li>sign-in to your\u00a0Facebook account in more than one browser (instead of having two windows in one browser), and load the mobile edition therein<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope this helps you like it&#8217;s helped me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: I did this in Chrome &#8211; it&#8217;ll be a little different in other browsers) I have several complaints about the book of the face &#8211; not least of which is that it likes to reset your News Feed from &#8220;Most Recent&#8221; (aka most useful) to &#8220;Top Stories&#8221; (aka whatever Facebook wants you to see). &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2676\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">show only most recent facebook news feed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[302,390],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical","tag-facebook","tag-how-to"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}