Facebook Rolls Out New Left Hand Navigation

Face­book has begun rolling out a restruc­tured left-hand nav­i­ga­tion that includes revamped book­marks and noti­fi­ca­tions for Pages, Groups and Apps. The changes, orig­i­nally announced last week, are part of the company’s efforts to make Face­book Apps more engag­ing. The new ver­sion of the nav­i­ga­tion is divided into four groups: Favorites, Pages, Groups and Apps. Favorites includes direct links to pop­u­lar Face­book fea­tures such as News Feed or Events. The Pages and Groups sec­tions each list the two most pop­u­lar Pages and Groups you use, along with a noti­fi­ca­tions num­ber to the right-hand side. Game Requests and App Requests look almost iden­ti­cal to the pre­vi­ous ver­sion of the nav­i­ga­tion menu. The “More” menu item has also moved. Orig­i­nally you could see a full list of your Groups by click­ing the “More” but­ton at the bot­tom of each menu set. The new ver­sion hides the “More” but­ton until you hover over the left-hand nav­i­ga­tion. Click­ing it takes you to a new page where you can add dif­fer­ent Pages and Groups to your “Favorites” sec­tion for quick and easy access. The pre­vi­ous nav­i­ga­tion design was imple­mented dur­ing a major Face­book redesign in Feb­ru­ary 2010. Game and App requests got an addi­tional over­haul a few months later. What do you think of the restruc­tured Face­book nav­i­ga­tion menu? Let us know in the com­ments. Arti­cle Writ­ten By: Ben Parr

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