Hidden NewsFeed Option in Facebook

Have you noticed that you’re see­ing updates in your news-feed 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 you’re not hear­ing from any­one else?

The prob­lem is that your friends can’t see any­thing you post and you can’t see any­thing they post either.

Why is this happening?

When Face­book redesigned the way our pro­files look in Decem­ber 2010, they also imple­mented a secret news­feed set­ting that’s auto­mat­i­cally set to show posts ONLY from peo­ple you inter­acted with in the past few weeks.

So in other words, for both busi­ness pages and per­sonal pro­files, unless you or your friends and fans have com­mented on each oth­ers posts, you are now invis­i­ble to them and they are invis­i­ble to you!  This is quite strange since I’ve always expected the “Most Recent” fil­ter to just give me the raw feed, but instead, it mim­ics the func­tion­al­ity of the “Top News” which fil­ters by inter­ac­tiv­ity as well.

Unfor­tu­nately this isn’t the first time this has hap­pened.  Face­book seems to have a knack for mak­ing changes with­out even let­ting us know, let alone ask­ing us if we even want to opt-in or out of this fea­ture at all.

Fol­low these 3 easy steps to fix this:
Step 1
Click on the Most Recent Facebook Link

On your home­page, click “Most Recent.”

Step 2
edit options in facebook newsfeed setting

Click the drop-down-arrow and then select “Edit Options…”

Step 3
click on "show all of your friends and pages" in facebook settings

Select to show posts from “All of your friends and pages” and click “Save”

 

You can now view all of your friends and fans updates.  Unfor­tu­nately, your posts are still invis­i­ble to a lot of your friends!

The rea­son for this is because many of your friends are unaware of this set­ting and are still view­ing Face­book with the default set­ting. Your friends will see your posts if you leave a com­ment, “Like” a post, or invite them to an event.

The best way to make ALL your friends aware of this issue is to invite them to an event all at once.

You can use this this event page I cre­ated specif­i­cally for invit­ing them.  It has the same infor­ma­tion as this blog page.  Do it so that many more will become aware of this option!

Here is the secret way to invite ALL your friends at once to any Face­book event, group, page, etc.

http://antranik.org/secret-code-to-invite-all-your-friends-on-fb/

I hope that helps!  If you have any com­ments or ques­tions.. let me know! :)

–Antranik