‘OG Facebook’ is back with big change to Facebook’s iPhone app

Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said one of his biggest priorities for the year was “to get back to some OG Facebook.” Starting today, we’re seeing the fruits of that thanks to a new Friends tab rolling out inside the Facebook app. New Friends tab works the way Facebook used to, before it went downhill Mike Isaac writes for The New York Times: The company said the Facebook app would now include a separate news feed for users that featured posts shared exclusively by people’s friends and family. The feature, called the Friends Tab, will replace a tab in the app that showed new friend requests or suggested friends. Friends Tab will instead show a scrolling feed of posts, such as photos, video stories, text, birthday notifications and friend requests. For now, it will be available to Facebook users only in the United States and Canada. “This idea of having a central place of what’s going on with your friends, that was like the magic of the early days of social media,” said ... Read full article.