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Recently Facebook introduced a new sidebar that appears along side the social media website in your web browser. It provides links to recent updates posted to your friends walls and also to anyone online for Facebook Chat. This morning I sent out a quick tweet to ask what others thought about the new enhancement and the response was consistent.
…it’s horrible. Too obtrusive. @johnniemojo
…honestly Facebooks changes in design has driven my visits to it down. @smicael
I would agree with the assessment of it being too obtrusive. It sits on the right hand side of your browser window and takes up real estate on the screen that is unnecessary. It just looks like it is in the way.
So I went in search of and found the magic button to turn this thing off in my browser. If you go down to the bottom of this sidebar you will find a gear icon for the settings:
Click on it and then select Hide Sidebar. Yep, that easy. Not sure why I did not track that down earlier.
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It’s a joke.. everytime you disable it and hide sidebar it comes right back on after moving around facebook or loggin back on.. STUPID and OBTRUSIVE!
Tried everything, I even limited everyone, cleared cache etc… But it pops-up with available option checked everytime I enter facebook again.
Maybe I should return to email era again. It was less intrusive, despite the spams.
I really dislike new side bar & want to go back to the way it was , please can anyone help me do that , people should have the option of the way they want it , this new way is really driving me insane please please help .
Janette – I do not think that is possible without FB changing it from their end.
Seriously, I don’t care about who I’m interacting with most. I just wanna see who’s online when I am. I take it there’s no way to switch back to the old design? Terrible…just terrible.
You can only turn it off but the moment you click on teh chat box it returns.
Whoa – I have tried it in two diff browsers and it works everytime. As soon as you click the Hide menu item it should disappear. However, if you click the chat box then it will come back in full again.
it doesn’t work man!
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