Facebook has rolled out a new “Subscribe “feature to users in the most popular social network which enables you to control exactly what you want to see from friends and others in your News Feed, read updates from people and let people hear from you, both without the need to befriend them or they befriend you. Isn’t it cool? Definitely! =D
The “Subscribe” feature has went live and appears in the form of a button, at the top right menu of your friends’ and others’ (non-friends) profiles.
1. Choose What You See in News Feed
With the Subscribe button, you can now enable/disable certain type of updates from your Facebook friends. This should reminds you of the Facebook Application Blocker (Chrome extension) and the Facebook Purity Greasemonkey script (for Firefox). Both extensions allows you to block all the notification messages on News Feed that are published by applications. It’s just that the Subscribe feature can do more than that. 🙂
By default, you are automatically subscribed to all your friends’ posts in News Feed. With the button, you can choose how many updates you want from friends : All updates, Most Updates or Only important.
Talking about complete control, you also can choose the types of updates to receive including life events, status updates, photos and videos, games, comments and likes, and other activity. If there is any update that you don’t want to see in your News Feed, that’s must be the game updates! Moreover, there is an option to unsubscribe a particular friend.
2. Subscribe to Interesting People
The Subscribe button also lets you read public updates from interesting people you’re not friends with—like journalists, artists and political figures. But keep in mind that only people who allow subscribers will have a Subscribe button on their profile. Just click the button to get their public updates right in your News Feed. If you don’t see the button, you can’t subscribe.
Just like with friends, you can choose how many and what types of updates you see after you’ve subscribed.
3. Get Your Own Subscribers
If you’d like to share your public updates with other people (besides your friends), you can get a Subscribe button on your profile, too.
But first, you need to enable subscription (Go to the Subscriptions page, click Allow Subscribers), then only the button will appear on your profile.
Once you allow subscribers, you can decide who can comment and what notifications you get. You’ll also see a Subscribers tab on your profile, where you can see who subscribes to you.
To write a public post, make sure you set the status update as “Public” before publish.
For more information on the Subscribe feature, hop over to the Facebook blog.
