Last week, my friend Susan Murphy (@suzemuse) tweeted a blog post by V3 called “How not to be invisible on the new Facebook newsfeed.” The title was a bit misleading, but the post was very helpful.
Apparently, our friends at Facebook have automatically changed our permissions. Now the only people and organizations we see in our newsfeed are those we’ve recently interacted with.
So those updates you so enjoy seeing from your good friends from college? Invisible if you haven’t interacted with them on Facebook.
And those organizations you enjoy hearing from every once in a while, when they put something interesting in your newsfeed? You’ll have to remember to get to there page, or else you won’t see them. Ever.
Fortunately, you can change that. Go down to the bottom of the newsfeed, and find “Edit Options”:
The newsfeed keeps extending itself as you get to the bottom of the screen, so getting to the “edit options” link can be a bit tricky!
Then choose “All of your friends and pages” from the drop down menu:
Then you are set.
You haven’t made it so that you aren’t invisible on Facebook. But you have made it so you’ll see the updates from people and organizations you are interested in…whether or not you’ve interacted with them recently.
Surprised that you found the original post title misleading – we all thought it was really clear, especially based on the tremendous amount of feedback on it that we got.
In any event, glad you discovered it and have now shared the info with your friends.
Shelly
@shellykramer
Thanks Shelly! I thought it was just a clever title.
As I read your helpful post, it doesn’t stop YOU from being invisible on Facebook. It stops YOUR FRIENDS from being invisible to you.
Did I miss something? I’d be glad to be wrong.
Marc,
Thanks for the helpful post. I’d heard alot about this but didn’t know the steps to actually doing anything about it. I appreciate it!
Betsy Baker
Thanks for sounding the alert! Why don’t they tell us when they make changes?
You are welcome!
I have NO idea why they don’t tell us. But apparently they don’t feel the need. 🙂
Not that I’d read it if they did tell me…
Thanks, Marc! I’ll go change my settings right now.
It was nice to see my friends again! 🙂
Marc,
THANK YOU. I totally missed this and wondered where everyone went. Just fixed it today.
Gayle
Great how to advice, Marc. And you are right, finding the end of the news feed was tricky.
PS your fans grew by at least one today. I will be seeing you in my feed even if I don’t interact with you!