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  • How To Go Back To The Previous Facebook Interface (While You Still Can)

    Robin Wauters

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
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    If you’re not happy with the changes Facebook made with regards to the News Feed, and the addition of the ‘Ticker’, there’s an easy way to revert back to the ‘old’ Facebook user interface.

    Simply go to your Account Settings and change your language to anything but ‘English (US)’. If you only speak English, you can simply pick ‘English (UK)’ and it will change back to the previous lay-out.

    Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere already (I didn’t find any reports on the usual suspect news sites and blogs straight away) but this is currently making the rounds on Twitter.

    Obviously, it’s just a matter of time before Facebook rolls out the new UI across all territories / languages covered by the social networking service provider, so this is merely a temporary ‘fix’ for those who have trouble accepting and embracing changes. And you are in abundance.

    Update: some people tell me this no longer works, but it does for me, and, from the looks of it, for most people. If it doesn’t work for you, apologies and remember, after rain comes sunshine.

    Here’s a video of some cute puppies kissing each other to brighten your day:

    (Thanks to Anand Choudhary for the heads up)


    Company: Facebook
    Website: facebook.com
    Launch Date: February 1, 2004
    IPO: NASDAQ:FB

    Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...

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