Return Your Facebook Timeline to Normal

September 22, 2011 All Posts, Facebook, Social Media

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I just saw this on a friend’s wall on Facebook and wanted to share it here with everyone since it seems the overwhelming response to Facebook’s new timeline feature is pretty much yuck!

HOW TO GET YOUR FEED BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN. if you want your feed to go back to normal go to your account and go to notifications. At the top right is a box that says email frequency. Uncheck that box and your feed will show all the posts again. Then go to your home page and anything in the "Top Stories" click on the down arrow in the upper right and "unmark as top story" – now your newsfeed will be setup by timestamp rather than randomly picking "top stories."

I did have to unchoose a couple of top stories that were highlighted in my timeline but I had more than one at the time I made these changes.  Let us know how it works for you.

Thanks Tarun!

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  • vicky singh

    I Want Narmal Facebook.Plz Send ME how I can Do This.

    • http://www.windowsobserver.com Richard Hay

      Unfortunately the new timeline is the permanent setup now on Facebook.

  • Rica Joy Daban

    i cant get i already click the sort and click the recent stories but i cannot find the unmark as top stories

  • http://abc.com ellimac

    hmm.. :) i don’t see the email frequency

    • http://www.windowsobserver.com Richard Hay

      I see it as a small box in the upper right hand corner on the notifications page after entering the Account Settings page.

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  • jaki

    jebemti facebook mater !

  • http://facebook.com Miguel

    Then go to your home page and anything in the “Top Stories” click on the down arrow in the upper right and “unmark as top story” – now your newsfeed will be setup by timestamp rather than randomly picking “top stories.” i dont get this sir

    • http://www.windowsobserver.com Richard Hay

      They have changed the option recently it seems – check out this screen shot – http://twitpic.com/7vtap3 – and select the Recent Stories First to get a normal newsfeed on Facebook.

      You click on the title Sort on the right side of the news feed to get that option.

      Hope this helps clarify things.

  • Imtesaal Sufi

    where is this email frequency?

    • http://www.windowsobserver.com Richard Hay

      Email settings are in Account Settings – Notifications.

  • Brian

    well it works but you have to uncheck the “top stories” each time. It doesn’t remember that you just want them according to posting time EVERY time.

  • Azalie

    yes, it worked for me :)

    • parul

      hw to do dis…
      i want to remove timeline n make my profile norma…. plz temme

    • Parul

      plz temme hw to do…