Welcome to your full guide to the brand new Facebook design. This isn't designed to tell you everything you need to know and to read, I've made it easier by providing links. So get started by choosing what you need help with:

Or you can read on to see a full tour.

NOTIFICATIONS, REQUESTS, AND MESSAGES
All three of these now appear as icons next to the Facebook logo. When you have a new notification, it will light up with the familiar red icon you are used to. Messages can now be previewed from the home page from the icon. You can view your full inbox by clicking Messages, which is now in the sidebar. Also, friend requests now appear next to the logo as well.








NEW SIDEBAR
The sidebar is now much more organized. It includes mainly the News Feed, inbox messages, Events, Photos, and Friends. Under some of these, you have submenus for more specific tasks under those five categories.




Under that are your applications. Apps and games are now split into two. Clicking those will bring up new dashboards that show your applications, your friends' applications, their recent activity, and more. Same applies for Games. Underneath those links are links for your bookmarked apps, which you can expand by clicking More. You can rearrange these by clicking Account in the top right, then clicking Applications settings and choosing Bookmarks. Then drag and drop.

Finally, your online friends are displayed in the sidebar as well, not all of them, though. You can see all by clicking "See All". More information on the new Chat style in the Facebook Chat section of this guide.












FACEBOOK CHAT
Friends now appear in the sidebar, and when clicked you can chat with them. To see all, click See All or click the Chat button in the bottom right hand corner. The full bar at the bottom of the page has been removed. Instead, it builds up depending on how many chat sessions you have going with friends.










ACCOUNT
The Account menu now combines quite a few things. You can edit friends, account settings, privacy settings, application settings, view your credits balance (for sending gifts), see a full Help Center, and also Logout. Logout is no longer its own separate button.








Certainly, hope that this helps in your new Facebook ventures. Some of you may not have the new design yet, but it is slowly being rolled out across Facebook's now 400 million users, so you'll get it very soon.

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