If you're not happy with the changes Facebook made with regards to the News Feed, and the addition of the 'Ticker', there's an easy way to revert back to the 'old' Facebook user interface.

Simply go to your Account Settings and change your language to anything but 'English (US)'. If you only speak English, you can simply pick 'English (UK)' and it will change back to the previous lay-out.

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere already (I didn't find any reports on the usual suspect news [...]

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