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One of the main usability problems on Facebook home page has been that users couldn’t easily re-order their bookmarks for applications. But the option has been on Facebook’s roadmap for months, and now it’s live.

If you click on “Edit” at the bottom of your left-hand navigation column on the home page, you’ll be able to drag and drop the bookmarks. From when Facebook introduced this new bookmarks interface in February, the company has only allowed deleting from the home page. Developers didn’t have an easy way to instruct users to make their apps more prominent.

We can expect social games and others to shortly include notices telling users exactly how to make the app the top on the list. However, at least with this implementation, the Applications Dashboard and the Games Dashboard cannot be re-ordered, and neither can the top items like the news feed.

Also, there are only 3 remaining spaces when the minimized view of the column is in place (which it is by default). As a result, the change could help some applications with lots of happy users to promote reordering to, and it could hurt smaller and less popular apps that luckily got one of the first three spots in February.

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