(via Andrea Glorioso) I received an interesting Facebook invitation, and it answered an important question that I have had about my FB timeline. I reproduce the message here:
“Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from t…he 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: On the homepage click the “Most Recent” title on the right of the Newsfeed, then click on the drop down arrow beside it and select “Edit Options”, click on “Show Posts From” and change the setting to “All Of Your Friends and Pages” (you can also access the “Edit Options” link at the very bottom of the facebook homepage on the right) Note: Business pages do not have a newsfeed however page owners should adjust the settings on their personal accounts.
The good news is: now you can now view all of your friends and fans again. The bad news is: YOU ARE STILL INVISIBLE to a large portion of your list. You must get the word out to ALL of your friends and fans by inviting them to this event or creating one of your own so they can read the post and adjust their settings. To invite your friends: Click on “Attending” at the top and then you will see an option to invite your friends at the top left. It’s public so everyone who logs onto facebook can view it and even the friends who can’t see your posts WILL see the event invitation. You can also tweet about it, create a blog post or send out an email to your subscribers in hopes of reaching them all.”
Regulation by Code, or should I say, friendship by Code.
4 Comments
Johnny in Lisbon · April 8, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Want to know the best bit? I did notice this and googled how to fix it, thought I had – I specified whom I do not wish to hear from – and I still only have the same old people show up in my news feed. I sometimes forget that FB wasn't created by adults (and by that I mean 19 is old teenagey, as it were…) and is not geared for adults. The recent addition of having my own comments appear on my wall is even more aggravating, is anyone really that self-enamoured? Drives me mental to have to delete every single one individually. I have made my peace with the fact that I have quietly come to loathe how FB works even if I bang my head against the wall every time a new updated version comes out and we're all forced to adopt it. I can't live without it though, am FB-dependent even professionally. So here we are.
Andres · April 9, 2011 at 3:26 am
I quit FB for a long time, I just couldn't take the endless display of narcissism. However, I decided to come back this year: https://www.technollama.co.uk/negotiable-privacy-o… . I still hate FB, but have decided that it has become too pervasive for me to continue ignoring it.
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