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title: "Facebook: Adding more Filters to News Feed"
description: Techcrunch is reporting that sometime tonight Facebook will be offering users more filters for their newsfeed. It remains to be seen how this will affect viral channels. Currently there are only a few filters available so this will open it up some. It may also make it more difficult for applications.
---

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# [Facebook: Adding more Filters to News Feed](https://blog.thoughtlabs.com/blog/facebook-adding-more-filters-to-news-feed)

 Written by [Cappy Popp](https://blog.thoughtlabs.com/blog/author/cappy-popp) | Aug 13, 2008

[Techcrunch is reporting](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/facebook-users-get-more-control-over-feeds/) that sometime tonight [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com) will be offering users more filters for their newsfeed. It remains to be seen how this will affect viral channels. Currently there are only a few filters available so this will open it up some. It may also make it more difficult for applications.

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