Facebook update downgrades text updates for Pages

Facebook wants Page owners to share other types of updates aside from text updates with a new tweak. Facebook’s News Feed Ranking Product Manager Chris Turitzin said in a blog post the social network changed the algorithm of the News Feed to downgrade text updates from Pages because they don’t do as well as text updates from friends.

The company encourages a more visual approach and wants Page owners to post links as they “get more engagement (more likes, comments, shares and clicks) and they provide a more visual and compelling experience for people seeing them in their feeds.”

Find out if someone ‘unfriends’ you on Facebook with Unfriend Notify

If you’re looking for a simple tool to discover who took you off their Facebook friends list, then the Unfriend Notify for Facebook extension is what you need. A pop-up notification will show up on your browser when someone unfriends you on the social network. You can even see which friends you’ve lost with a new Lost Friends tab. The extension works for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Facebook updates Windows Phone app to add start screen notifications

Facebook has updated its beta app for Windows Phone to add a few new features. The social network added a second Live Tile to let you pin events, groups, chats, and the like on your home screen. Meanwhile, the primary tile can display updates from your friends directly on the start screen. If you use messaging feature on the app, you also now get stickers and emoticons to bug or amuse your friends with.

Facebook adds new features to Home launcher for Android

Facebook has introduced its Home launcher for Android to include notifications, time, and weather to the lock screen. What the social network also did was move the Facebook content back into the app more as you’re going to have to swipe to view the photos and posts that were previously displayed on the lock screen. Facebook Home also added new categories of wallpaper images, Cover Feed shortcut, and swipe down to unlock.