Location

• Your Facebook news feed runs down the middle of the screen on your homepage. The homepage, or wall, is the first screen that opens when you log in to Facebook. The most recent stories in the news feed appear at the top of the screen, and the older stories are listed chronologically beneath them.
  
  

Updates

• The news feed updates in real time. As a friend posts a new status update or other content, the content appears in your news feed. Look just beneath the post to see when it was created -- a light gray message that says "[x] minutes ago" just under a post tells you exactly when it appeared in the news feed. Posts from a previous day will also include the exact date the content was created.
  
  

Types of Content

• Anything a friend posts in the "What's on your mind?" field at the top of her homepage or personal profile appears in your news feed. This includes status updates, links and videos. The news feed also shows photo albums created by a friend, changes in relationship status and friends' new profile pictures. Leave a comment or hit the "Like" link beneath a post in the news feed to give feedback to your friends.
  
  

Hiding Content

• If a particular friend or application is posting too many updates and monopolizing your news feed, hide the content. Hover your mouse over a post by the friend and click on the gray "x" that appears in the top right corner of the post. Select "Hide all by [Friend's Name]" from the list to hide future posts from that friend. To hide a single post, select "Hide this post" from the list.