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Facebook News Feed Settings – How To Change

February 15, 2011 By Justin

Facebook Feed Settings Changed? Are you noticing a lack of activity from some of your friends on facebook?  Did someone send some sort of private message to all your friends asking them to block their news feed from your home page?  If you’ve noticed inactivity on your facebook news feed there’s a good reason why.

Recent updates on Facebook may have changed your default feed settings to show posts from, “Friends and pages you interactive with most“.  Basically if haven’t interacted with your friend or page recently, they won’t show up in your feed.

feed on facebook settings

From what I understand, in the last week or so, facebook updated profile default settings for the facebook news feed.  This is the news feed that is displayed when you visit the facebook home page.  Previously, when you clicked ‘Most Recent‘ at the top-right, the news feeds from all your friends and pages would display.  Now your default settings could be set to: “Friends and pages you interactive with most“, which would eliminate many of your feeds.

After making this quick change, all my friends status updates and page subscriptions show.  What I think facebook means by ‘interacting with most‘, is people you often like, share, or comment on their status updates,  pictures, pages, events, etc.  If there’s no interaction then there’s no news feed from that friend or page.

How to change your Facebook News Feed Settings

Step 1: When logged into your account visit the Facebook Homepage.  That’s http://www.facebook.com and can always be reached by clicking on their logo.

Step 2: On the top right of your feed page you’ll see “Top News” and “Most Recent“, click the drop-down beside Most Recent and click, “Edit Options“.

Step 3: The “Edit Your News Feed Settings” window will pop up and just click on:  ‘All of Your Friends and Pages‘

Hopefully this will be helpful to those of you who follow my blog.  Other information and resources:

  • News Feed Option Show Friends You Interact With Most – AllFacebook.com
  • Facebook Changes News Feed Settings – InsideFacebook.com
  • Facebook News Feed filtering can make friends vanish – WashingtonPost.com

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Comments

  1. Mary Beth says

    March 7, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    What I’d like to know is how to have only the updates from a specific friend list show up in the News feed… or conversely how to hide all updates from a specific list.

    The reason I ask is that I play a game on there and I have a lot of new “friends” who play too… but I don’t care to see all of their news items, posts and thoughts and I can’t see the posts by folks I want to see.

    Help please!

  2. Aaqib Khan says

    April 29, 2011 at 2:04 AM

    thank u very much,you helped me to solve my problem completly.again thanks.

  3. mike says

    July 12, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    Would like to know how to set my status updates auto populate my news/live feed such like redbull fan page.

  4. mica says

    September 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    I don’t have those options on my Facebook! It’s so frustrating!!!

  5. goonerlol says

    October 16, 2011 at 10:33 PM

    i got the new facebook for a while but then all of a sudden it changed back to the old one. do you know how to change it back to the new one? i liked it

  6. Nicki says

    February 6, 2012 at 6:47 AM

    This seems to have stopped working, can I not make those changes anymore?

  7. william ross says

    February 13, 2012 at 4:22 AM

    Gmail won’t let me login to facebook keep having server lose will not connect to server after l upgraded Facebook been three days now.

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