Totally O/T but might be useful to facebook users

[Swing Band Heaven]

I am sorry that this is totally off topic but recently on facebook (which I use to keep in touch with other phono friends around the world) i've only been getting news feeds from people that I have interacted with recently. It seems FB have mucked about with settings again. I just posted this here in case others didn't realise the issue.

Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and everyone else seems to be ignoring you?

Don't worry, everyone still loves you and nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem is that a large chunk of your friend/fan list can't see anything you post and here's why

The "New Facebook" has a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people who you've recently interacted with or interacted the most with (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile). So in other words, for both business and personal pages, unless your friends/fans commented on one of your posts within those few weeks or vice versa - you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!!



HERE'S THE FIX: Scroll down to the bottom of the newsfeed on the homepage and click on "Edit Options", click on "Show Posts From" and change the setting to "All Of Your Friends and Pages" Note: This is the fix for personal pages but I am unsure of whether or not the business pages are set up the same way.

[Tinkerbell]

Thanks for posting that... I was wondering about it myself, but just haven't had the opportunity to investigate further. It's good to know that I'm not being shunned, (well, not overtly anyway...)

Thanks for posting the fix, too; that certainly saves me a bit of time.

[gramophoneshane]

Yes, thank you SBH. I though half my friends and relatives had died
Think I might try & work your nstructions into a status report to get the word out there.
Oh how I wish they're stop changing stuff constantly on FB.