There is no more news feed, they've eliminated it! What you now see on the homepage is basically a "status update feed". While they've enhanced status updates so that they now combine the former share/post functionality, every other kind of action that used to go in the news feed is no longer there.
That's not true at all. Apps still publish to the feed. That's how I found out about this Facebook poll: it published an update to my feed.
Furthermore, the Highlights on the side is the exact same as the old feed. You get app updates there as well.
... the same is true for other things: For example, when someone tags a photo of one of your friends, you'll no longer see that on your homepage. You'll only be notified of the new photos if the person who posted the photos is your friend.
Again not true. I get tagged photo updates on my main feed.
I understand the Facebook change dislike, because people hate big changes, but people are just blindly making things up now.
That's not true at all. Apps still publish to the feed. That's how I found out about this Facebook poll: it published an update to my feed.
Furthermore, the Highlights on the side is the exact same as the old feed. You get app updates there as well.
... the same is true for other things: For example, when someone tags a photo of one of your friends, you'll no longer see that on your homepage. You'll only be notified of the new photos if the person who posted the photos is your friend.
Again not true. I get tagged photo updates on my main feed.
I understand the Facebook change dislike, because people hate big changes, but people are just blindly making things up now.