What's old is new again with Facebook's latest News Feed update

Facebook launches News Feed filters — first look.

That was a headline on Inside Facebook in 2008, when the social network first enabled users to sort their feed by content type.

Facebook rolling out more prominent design of News Feed filters.

That was in 2010 when Facebook offered filters for status updates, photos, links, pages, games and friend lists in a drop-down menu in the top right of their feed. The following year, filters took a backseat. Some were removed entirely, others buried in the bookmarks bar.

Now,

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