Newsroom

People can go to their activity log to review all their posts and activity, from today back to when they first joined Facebook. They can see and adjust the privacy of any of their posts, decide what shows on their timelines and hide or delete any of their posts.

Introduced: September 2011

News feed is a regularly updating list of stories from friends, pages, and other connections, like groups and events. People can like or comment on what they see. Each person’s news feed is personalized based on their interests and the sharing activity of their friends.

Introduced: September 2006

Interesting News, Any Time You Visit

With more than 250 million photos uploaded each day, Facebook is the most popular photo uploading service on the web. People can upload an unlimited number of videos and high-resolution photos, create albums, and share with their friends or any audience they choose. It’s easy to add details like captions, locations and tags. Tagging lets people identify a friend in a photo or video, easily sharing that content with them.

Introduced: October 2005

Improving the Photos Experience
Bigger, Faster Photos

Facebook Messages weaves messages, emails, chats, and text messages together in one ongoing conversation. This makes it easy for people to communicate from whichever device they’re using to access Facebook – whether they’re chatting on the web or texting on the go. Messages are organized by conversations with friends or groups of friends. Thanks to smart filtering, people always see messages from their friends and friends of friends first.

Introduced: February 2004

More About Messages
See the Messages That Matter

Groups are private spaces within Facebook for people to discuss common interests. People create groups to share with small sets of people, like family, teammates or best friends. People within a group can post updates, photos and chat with everyone at once. People can customize the privacy settings for each group they create.

Introduced: September 2004

Update to Facebook Groups
Introducing Groups for Schools
New Groups: Stay Closer to Groups of People in Your Life

With lists, people can organize their friends so it’s easy to share or exclude posts from specific sets of people. They can also filter the their news feed to see stories from people in a list. For example, people can announce a garage sale to a list of friends who live nearby, or they can see news feed posts from just their close friends list. Privacy settings for each list can be customized

Introduced: December 2007, updated September 2011

Improved Friend Lists

With events, people can organize gatherings, manage invitations and send notifications and reminders to their friends. People can use events to invite their friends to anything from a dinner party or a community fundraiser. There are currently more than 16 million events created on Facebook each month.

With subscribe, people can sign up to see public posts in their news feeds from people on Facebook who aren’t their friends, like celebrities, thought leaders and other public figures.

Introduced: September 2011

More About Subscribe
Introducing the Subscribe Button

Ticker is a faster version of news feed. It includes posts and activity from your friends and other connections, like pages, groups and events. This live stream of activity appears in real-time.

Introduced: September 2011