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Only seeing the same few people on Facebook?
BillyCasper
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Hey folks, if this has already been mentioned I apologise.
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.
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.
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Another question then, I use Firefox for Facebook, when you click on a photo now, it's surrounded by a huge black screen, looks awful. Doesn't happen if I view in Internet Explorer. What's the deal with this, is there a fix, have I a problem, or have they changed that too?
I did notice a good few months ago that I was only getting updates from people I didn't really give a shit about. I went to investigate my options to see if I'd accidentally hidden all my friends or something daft like that, and back then there was an option to limit the number of people whose updates hit my newsfeed. This was set to "200" and I only have 100 friends, so I was a bit baffled as to why - when I set it to 1000 as an experiment - everyone suddenly appeared for me again.
Facebook eh. I love it, but at the same time it's more than a bit shite. Don't even get me started on Facebook chat.
It's the same on Chrome as well.
That's nothing to do with your browser, it's another of Facebook's "improvements".
Also, I wonder if this means more people will see and like my statuses now?
Fascinating to those who are playing the same game* but less so to those who aren't, and even downright annoying in some cases.
It would be better if game notifications went exclusively to a separate page by default, but I suppose there's a commercial imperative working here.
*And even then, not all the time.
Yeah, that's right. Just click on the "X" beside the post and select "Hide all posts from..." if you no longer want them clogging up your newsfeed
Problem is we're all so addicted to the damn thing we'll never vote with our feet.
A very powerful problem is Facebook.
You can also block the application, so you won't see posts relating to it on anyone's profile either and they can't send you invites. Usually you can click on the name of the application, which takes you to its fan page, and there's a "block application" option. Sometimes you have to do a bit of clicking about to get to it. Probably the best feature that Facebook has implemented in recent times!
I hate how facebook is dominating how we communicate with our friends online. The internet, rather than getting bigger.. is getting smaller.
To be honest after some "surveying" on my part over the last few months, it seems like the same 'handful' of people actually update their status regularly, a large proportion of my friends never bother, probably doing real things or something,
Changed it