Facebook Tests Real-Time 'Happening Now' Feed

I wish you failure! This is a worthless, annoying feature. You should provide the ability to remove yourself from it.

top news and most recent mode, are uless. news feed has too many "DUPLICATES"? Reappear when click Hide this Post?

bottomline: Headache:(

Shocking! At least make it possible to hide your own activity if you so desire. Seriously, it's not the coolest thing ever thought of. Since it appeared I've backed off facebook completely. I guess there is a positive.

It stinks big time ... makes me wanna log off

it just sucks!! if you want to be more like Twitter, we will just switch to Twitter.

I log in today to see this crap... What happened. Updates are cool and all but not all useless updates are acceptable... Facebook this is annoying!! Take this off!!

How is this a "worthwhile feature"? It's extremely stressful and distracting. I am very unhappy that this feature is being tested on my account, without my permission. I come to Facebook to relax and chat with friends and play games. Now, every time that I'm in a game, there is a scrolling feed that tells me what games my friends are playing and what ads they like and it is updating every SECOND because of my large friends list. If it stays, I won't be here playing games in the future and will not keep my Facebook account.

this is distracting and useless, please remove, are you people idiots?

I do not want to see every comment by my friends to other people I don't know.

Keep Facebook like it is.

We only have so much time on FB and don't want to waste it by being distracted by this.

A useless feature that not one user chosen as a Guinea Pig has any positive feedback to offer - 'Nuff said ( u tried and failed ) Now pls reset my newsfeed!!!

This new feature is NOT going over well in the 'test' group. Please review the comments on our Facebook group page. I'm not sure there's one positive piece of feedback. We're nearing 1000 members, all of whom want nothing more than to get rid of this. What we'd really like is for someone, ANYone to get our feedback directly to Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_219417451413093

I am one of the lab rats that has the misfortune to be "testing" this new format. Today by noon the most recent news feed I had was 15 hours old. Now I know that a least one person from my friends list has said something a little more recent that. This is a failure! Yet FB continues to push this on us. Sending them feed back only gets you a form auto email response. The voice of the people mean very little to the FB clowns. They will push this on us regardless what we want.

AMEN I totally agree

I am unfortunately one of those "testers". I didn't ask for it and I definitely don't like it! If you want to add this feature, have an option to choose what you want in the third column. I would definitely not choose this!

Don't like the new format. Wish facebook would give us a choice before changing it. Please put back the most recent activities at the top of the page!!!

And it also means you don't see birthdays, you don't see events, you don't see who is on chat. And, worst of all, there is no way to opt out. I was one of the test group that got this idiotic installation on my page - without my permission and no way to delete it. I had to slam FB with numerous complaints in order to have my page returned to "normal". For those of us that had to suffer through this stupidity, it is bad, bad news, Bad, very bad, news indeed!

How did you complain to them?? Can you direct me to the link (although how will i find it with fb's ridiculous new layout!)

I used the FB feedback section under report a bug. I titled it "F**ked up News Feed", told them something had infected my page and attached a picture of my home page with the annoying, useless, idiotic Happening Now crap. Then I sent it. And as soon as I was done, I sent it again, and again, and again, and again - all morning long. Hours worth of the same message. Then to liven things up I began attaching pictures of my cat, landscapes and just any picture at random. By early afternoon my page had started to go back to normal and by the time I signed back in that night it was just as it had been.
You can go to our haters page at http://www.facebook.com/groups/219417451413093?id=241118685909636¬if_t=group_activity#!/groups/219417451413093?ap=1 where you will find additional resources and support from other very angry users and new Google+ members.

This feature is very cluttered. It causes privacy concerns as I have my privacy settings rather tight, but I can see posts that my friends have made on stranger's statuses. I fear that some of my posts might be visible to someone that I do not know nor would want them to know my personal business. I did not give consent to being used like a guinea pig, and I would love to have my old "News Feed" back as opposed to this worthless, frustrating, inconvenient "Happening Now" layout.

For those needing help in removing this insanity from their page, go to Facebooks "Happening Now" Haters page. There are over 900 of us there to support you!

PLEASE CHANGE MY PAGE BACK, PLEASE!!!!!!!!

I was also a guinea pig for 2 weeks. The whole thing was distracting and repetitive. In order to see your friend's most recent posts you have to go 1/2 way down the page past the jumbled news feed or click on the happening now post so & wait for it to show there. You also get to see what your friends friends have posted, if your friend comments or likes it. Not very private. I have no desire to log on & find this feature on my page again. Made logging on stressful instead of enjoyable. Two thumbs down from me

NO 1 LIKES THIS NEW HAPPENING NOW THING NO1 WAS ASKED IF IT COULD B CHANGED ND NOW NO1 CAN CHANGE IT BACK! fb is starting to b a dont think i want it anymore

This "Happening Now" feature sucks bigtime....i dont need or want to know everytime one of my friends likes or comments on someones link...its invasive in the extreme.... I do want to know when its one of my friends birthday..a feature removed to provide space for this unwanted feature....i also want to be able to click on the chat button and see all of my friends who are online...not have to type in each name individually until i find someone on...It would be nice if the powers that be at Facebook would actually ask us what we want...i have a twitter and myspace account...i havent been on either in the 2 years since i joined facebook ...but i am hearing good things about Google+...just saying :)

I have it on my page and I hate it! I can't find a link to ask them to please remove it from my page. It is redundant and very annoying. I want my birthday reminders back too. Very unhappy user!

CHANGE IT BACK IT IS HARD TO FOLLOW AND SO ANNOYING

If i wanted Twitter i would have downloaded Twitter. this feature is annoying and an invasion of privacy ! have a look at comments from 1000 other people here http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/home.php?sk=group_219417451413093&ap=1

I have it`and absolutely HATE it. Please please put my page back to the old way right away or I am off FB for good.

Another "tester" that is subjected to this, eliminated all my sort features, and provides constant inane trivial jibberjabber on my page. I can not find my lists, I can not sort on recently updated, or new. Just random (Sue posted that she liked Bob's picture, Sue changed her profile picture, Sue tagged herself in Bobs album)

This is not exciting, this will be the nail in the coffin for Facebook.

I detest being used like a guinea pig and subjected to this horrible "Happening Now" layout. It feels like an invasion of privacy when I can read comments posted by my friends on a complete stranger's status. I have my privacy settings customized for a reason. I do not like being stalked nor do I like the feeling that I am a peeping Tom peering into the lives of individuals that I do not know.

I despise the lack of control over my "News Feed". I want to see the most recent posts, not what an algorithm has calculated as being relevant to me based on the popularity or most recent update to a friend's status, photo, or link. I hate wading half-way down my news stream just to read the most current posts only to find redundancies in the timeline that was listed at the top of the page.

The twitter-like stream is not user-friendly. My mouse will not scroll smoothly down that section of the page. Also, I fear that the constant streaming might trigger and increase of seizures for epileptic users.

I can not wait until Google + goes live as I would love to juxtapose the Facebook layout versus their layout. If I had been given a warning or at least an opt-out option I would not feel so outraged by the way I have been treated in my week long experience in the test group. I have complained, reported bugs, posted on the discussion boards, but feel as though the corporate entity does not care about the end user as I have been ignored. I know I am not the only one who feels this way.

What goes around comes around. It is my deepest desire that Facebook gets what they did to me with this experiment. They deserve all the bad publicity they're getting and then some.

happening now is horrible and annoying. and i dont need facebook telling me what is most relevant to me. i just want to see everything in chronological order. im ready to leave facebook because of this.

It is sooo annoying, I quit playing Farmville,and many other games..... It interferes with everything....If I'd wanted Twitter, I'd be there......I just may be...digusted ;(

I really don't like this feature. It is both annoying and strange that I can see my friends interacting with people I don't even know nor have on my friend list. Where's the integrity in all this? I would appreciate if the facebook team would remove this feature asap.

Regards Anna, Sweden.

the new features are highly annoying and not at all cool, I play games on facebook and am missing out on alot of things because of the twitter like feed I now have and have missed birthdays and event announcements because of it I want my old interface back not the new highly aggravating one

Very unnecessary feature! It gives me an extra stress!!! Why do i need to worry about things like that!!! I wish this * thing would dissappeas from my page ASAP!!!

awful, awful feature!!!!! Please stop!!

Real time feed SUUUUCKS. Do I really need to know that my friend Carol liked 20 of Jazzy J's pictures? Especially when I don't know who the heck Jazzy J is nor do I want to be able to see those 20 pictures. Wanting to be like Twitter is not a good thing as even their constant scroll is very annoying.

The other aspect that tweaked me was they didn't ask first, didn't notify any one they just DID it. How about requesting volunteers who wouldn't mind being their test pigs?

All in all my FB experience is no long the fun and chuckles that it used to be.

If FB wants to make a change how about adding a DISLIKE button...grrr

Join other suffers of this "test". Search for us on FB:

Facebooks "Happening Now" Haters

I think the dislike button is a great idea also!!!!

Invasions of privacy...distracting scrolling newsfeed...many many irritated 'guinea pigs'.... I hope FB realises quickly what a mammoth failure this 'innovation' is!

Ok. On to the next page. What is next from FB to become a member. FB pisses me really off. I´m tired of this B*llSH*T!

IT SUCKS!!!!! I HATE IT!!!!!IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH????

I am one of the TEST DUMMIES....Hate Hate Hate this new running commentary on the right side of the page.. can't find birthdays, invites or personal info. JUST a bunch of NOISE down the right side. Give us BACK our old HOMEPAGE and stop MESSING with us FACEBOOK USERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thumbs down for this! An invasion of privacy, and I don't even have Most Recent on the top to choose from anymore. Must be FB tweaking it after initial feedback of double postings... Dear FB, you seem to be doing ALL the wrong things on this feature! Change it back! :(

I am one of the FB users testing this new feature. I do not like it. If they want to have the "Happening Now" feature, it should NOT include the game posts. These game posts should be left in the news feed and we gamers should get our "Most Recent" and "Top News" buttons back. I realize FB is free and they can pretty much do what they want, but I don't think that losing FB users is their goal. However, they may be succeeding at it.
The game posts are the most important to the gamers and are the posts the gamers should be able to control how to see and use them.

im done with this. it is seriously making me dizzy. the page shifts constantly in two different directions. It should come w a warning for individuals prone to seizures. You cant see birthdays, and there are constant repetitious postings- a complete failure.

I'm among the unfortunate few to have this horrible feature foisted upon them. The constant updates on the right side of my screen are distracting and irritating. My main news feed is now a jumble of old and new information. About 1/3 of the way down the page, FB inserted a "Most Recent" heading, under which it repeats some of the stuff from the top part of my news feed, as well as other recent updates I was presumably supposed to see in the update feed on the right side. The removal of the "Most Recent" sort feature and the addition of the "twitter-style" feed are irritating features, and I will be refraining from checking FB with any frequency until the former style is restored.

ALSO.....I was dismayed to discover that I no longer see notifications with respect to birthdays and events since the "twitter-style" feed fills that area of my page.

hi i have to to say i hate it

The fraction of a percent being tested hates it! It has rendered FB unusable for the majority of us. All you have to do is search for the hate groups, the one I am in is nearing 1000 members.

This isn't your ordinary griping because a few people hate change. The testers are angry and hurt and feel as if they have been wronged by FB. They(FB) say depending on feedback, yet they have not given a single tester a feedback form. Every other beta I have tested actually gave us a way to share our thoughts. FB is ignoring and even blocking the testers from giving feedback.

You can also throw your privacy out the window. FB's new format ignores the current privacy settings we have set. I can see what Bobby said on Aunt Sally's photo even though Aunt Sally has her settings to friends only and she is not on my friends list. I can even look through all her photo albums and comment. Yeah sounds like a great feature to me, if I were a stalker.

I had the new "Happening Now" for three weeks. A jumbled, irritating, mess of a page. The streaming feed had friends of friends of friends' posts that I care nothing about. No "most recent", so nothing is chronological. There is no rhyme nor reason for this change. It's hard to understand unless it happens to you!

They did it to my account.

The so-called real time feed doesn't bother me, I just ignore it. What pisses me off is the wall posts are out of order and repeat multiple times, plus the most recent option is gone, and I know I'm not seeing every post. Why don't they leave well enough alone???

I can't think of any change they've made since I've been in FB that was a needed improvement.

just started seeing this today... itis annoying... i don't need everyone seeing everything i do or like on facebook! please get rid of this or atleast give us the option of not having it on our page... and not letting others see every little thing we are doing. thank you.

I too am a subject to the Happening now experiment, and it has totally ruined Facebook as a social media for me.

I have a lot of people as friends, which is not necessarily the same as that I want to follow every move they make on FB.

The loss of Most recent and the friend list filtering option is devastating to my FB experience.

I could follow certain people in various lists I made up from when I last logged in easily, now the only way I can follow anything is to go to each individuals profile to see what they have done or posted.

The news in the new News feed is not chronological, entries from five seconds ago are mixed with seventeen hour old ones, and the "popularity contest" method of showing news does not work for me.

In all honesty, there is no way you FB guys can determine which news are important to me based on "likes" or comments, we are not all the same or have the same interests.

The fact that news appear both in "happening now section" to the right (which updates about every second for me due to a large group of friends and is utterly pointless), in the news feed and then further down in the miniscule most recent part, and most often several times in the middle section, is annoying.

There's also a privacy concern with showing me "Likes" on peoples entries that are not my friends. I've tested this, and accounts with high privacy settings are still visible to me if one of my friends interact with them.

Since there's no way for me to contact you, or get anything but an automated respond at best, I and several others feel that our only way is to complain extensively through help center and places like this.

I understand that there might be reasons for every change you make, but please give me/us back the Most recent news feed at the top of our pages and restore the possibility to filter by friend lists.

I DO NOT WANT THIS ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE ANYMORE!!!! THERE IS NO POINT IN HAVING 2 PLACES FOR UPDATES!!!! HOW DO I GET THIS OFF MY PAGE????

I hate it! My Facebook is sluggish and slow! My games won't load and I don't care to see what games my friends are playing at every given second of the day!!!! This is ridiculous!!!

HATE THE NEW CHAT WHICH DOESNT ALLOW ME TO GO OFFLINE ! REALLY DONT WANT TO SEE WHAT MY 4600 FRIENDS ARE DOING !!!! GRGHHH SO ANNOYING - STOP IT NOW & LET US GET ON WITH OUR OWN FB & PRIVACY PLEASE !!!

I HATE IT! WHYYYY ME?!!!

i f543kin hate this new profile .i want my most recent back

If you don't fix it and soon, I will drop facebook

I hate this feature..I want it gone..the movement on the right side makes me feel sick , I have to take motion sickness pills..please remove it from my page..ty

I hate anything that I can't opt out of. It's on my husband's FB and he wants it off. The fact that there's no way to get rid of it makes me crazy. Ugh!!!

HATE HATE HATE

I want my Most Recent back.Facebook has been ruined for me.

I hate it i wished they woulda asked me if i wanted to be a victem of it .. Please put me back to the normal layout grrrrrrr

I am one of the UNlucky ones saddled with this new feature...I do NOT like it. Not only am I no longer able to see who is having a birthday it also seems to effect my ability to comment on photos most of the time as it blocks me from being able to scroll down. Since I am on facebook I am seeing what is going on & able to check notifications why would I need this stream constantly running?? Is there a way to remove it or hide it, if not at least make it compatible with the birthday alerts & ability to scroll down to post on a photo. Totally agree with all the others who find it very irritating.

Quite simply: thumbs way down.

Shouldn't the purpose of being a "tester" be to provide feedback (never mind that I wasn't even asked to be a tester). The gall of FB to change my profile and include me in a test group without absolutely any method of providing feedback. What's the purpose? And in case they're reading this I HATE IT!!! I

Shouldn't the purpose of being a "tester" be to provide feedback (never mind that I wasn't even asked to be a tester). The gall of FB to change my profile and include me in a test group without absolutely any method of providing feedback. What's the purpose? And in case they're reading this I HATE IT!!! I

i freakin hate it because you cant view ALL of your friends that are available to chat with!! Only the ones that FB chooses for you to see!!

Invasion of privacy is the one comment that came into my mind when I saw this first.

FB is not only watching every single click you make but is publishing it now real time through this useless feature.

I CANNOT STAND this feature. Hopefully it will not be inflicted on everyone.

I agree. Its so annoying..I just dont want to get on the site! Please remove it or at least give ME the option to remove it!!

Whenever Facebook redesigns its site, I feel like I am always one of the unwilling "volunteers," dragged kicking and screaming (not that Facebook cares) into its trials without a choice to opt out.

The Happening Now feed is a violation of my privacy, a hindrance to finding pokes, birthdays, and game requests, and an obvious attempt to emulate Twitter and even the new Google+. I can see what my friends have posted on walls, photos, and statuses of people that I'm not even friends with, making me nervous about what others that aren't friends with me with this feature can see. Furthermore, my friends' birthdays and pokes are no longer on my homepage. To access birthdays, I must now go to events, and to get to pokes, I have to follow a link from my email.

I feel, as do my other 1,943 fellow members of this "Facebook 'Happening Now' Haters" group (https://www.facebook.com/group..., that this feed is obnoxious and a needless invasion of privacy and re-iteration of the "Recent News" setting on the Home Page.

it should be removed - what is the point of going offline when people can see you are not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and there is no where to report you want it removed - it is the same with the new chatbox NO ONE i know wants either!!!!!
why do they test things and not allow us the choice of comment or indeed if we want it or not.
Leave things alone unless you want to invite our comments first.

it is irritating to me. i'm not one to complain much, but i'm really not interested in what others are doing on facebook. i request that it be removed (like my vote would count!) :)

It's NOT worthwhile. I hate it. It's no one's business WHAT I am doing. Period.

It is really hard to use. The Most Recent portion of the page has vanished and no post are in time chronological order. In fact it is just awful to use. It gets a big " GIVE ME BACK MY OLD FACEBOOK PAGE NOW" vote.

Now facebook has become ridiculous and cluttered, i really don't need a second by second play of everything everyone of my friends do on facebook. Totally stupid feature !!! It also makes a total joke of facebooks privacy setting as the feed cannot be disabled !!!.
Every one of my friends and even some friends that are only acquaintances can now see everything i do on facebook.
Privacy really facebook!! yea right !! I believe Wikipedia has a good definition of PRIVACY.. maybe you guys should go check it again, here is the link just in case !!!

Annoying, distracting, unnecessary, and if I wanted a twitter feature I would have joined twitter. I do not like in-your-face stuff and that is what this is. In general I'm not fond of the new format because you cannot choose to see only status updates, or only links if you want. I don't want FB choosing what they think is important for me to see. And...the hide only works if you do it several times. The new stuff is too filled with gadgets. This defeats the main purpose of hearing from your friends and posting articles you like. BAD! BAD! BAD!

GET RID OF IT

I recently joined 2 groups..one open and one closed. They are both related to a rare medical condition that I have. I just found out that my posts to these groups (which are private) appear in my friends "Happening Now" feed. This is very embarassing. How do I keep this from happening?