Mashable: Facebook Cleans Up Birthday Wall Posting

Aug 09

Mashable: Facebook Cleans Up Birthday Wall Posting

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This is a repost of an article that originally appeared at Mashable | The Social Media Guide

You’ve got a few reasons to dread and/or loathe birthdays. But at least now you can cross that hot mess of a Facebook News Feed off your list of things to worry about on your or your friends’ birthdays.

Facebook is now testing a new design that organizes birthday-related messages in a much cleaner, simpler way that’s consistent with other recent UI changes.

If this change is rolled out to all users, your News Feed will no longer be hijacked by an endless string of largely homogeneous “Happy birthday!” notes every time someone celebrates another year above ground. Instead, all the related messages will collapse under a single common link, similar to the interface you might see if several of your friends comment on an update or photo or RSVP to an event.

While we’ve only seen screenshots for birthday-related posts in newsfeeds, we also hope this collapsible feature will appear on users’ profiles; a glut of birthday messages can quickly drown out any other, perhaps more important notes on your own Wall.

Here’s what the test feature looks like right now:

What do you think so far: Is this something you’d prefer over a slew of related but unorganized birthday messages in your newsfeed? How about on your own profile Wall? Let us know your opinions in the comments.

[hat tip and img credit: Inside Facebook]

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