Facebook changes

If you haven’t visited Facebook for a while, the first things you’ll see are top photos and statuses. They’re marked with an blue corner.

If you check Facebook more frequently, you’ll see the most recent stories first. Photos will also be bigger so you can view them more easily.

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. You set it by visiting the person’t profile and hovering ove the Subscribe button.

Instead of Profile, you now have a small thumbnail and name of the user you’re logged in as – that should make things clearer when you are using Facebook as a Page. Also, the “Account” has been replaced by a simple down arrow so you can access all your account, privacy and logout settings.

The ticker is a live-feed area that sticks to the upper right corner of the screen and gives you a running play-by-play of what is happening literally right now

When you hover over a Friend Button on somebody's profile – you have a few options you didn’t before. At the top of the list, you can easily set someone to “Close Friend” or only an “Acquaintance.”

Also, Facebook has anticipated that the hardest part of Friends List (or Google+ Circles for that matter) is that you have to curate the lists.

So now, you’ll see smart lists that create themselves and stay up-to-date based on profile info your friends have in common with you–like your work, school, family and city.

You no longer need 25 likes on a business page in order to grab a custom URL

There is now a “Friend Activity” feed on business pages so that people can see how their friends interact with your page.

Facebook will try to not choke your inbox by emailing you a daily summary of the “less important” notifications instead of individual ones.

Posts or comments in another language prompt the appearance of a “translate” button.

Posts that have been shared will now include a link you can follow to see who has shared them.

You can now post birthday wishes to peoples’ walls without ever leaving your home page. Just click the birthday’s link in the upper right, and watch the magic