how come i have friends on facebook and their status updates dont show on my news feed? i was thinking i hadnt heard people for a while and theyre my friends still but i cant see their updates?! x

have you maybe hidden them? can you get onto their page ok? you can set it so people dont see your status updates but I dont know if that means you can see them if you go onto their page to see them?
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yeah i can get on their pages fine. was just curious as was browsing some profiles and notices a few people had updated their status and i hadnt see them! x

theres an option somewhere where you can choose who you see more or less off on your news feed, but im not sure where as im on my phone atm, try the account options, i havent used that for ages so as they have changed fb the option might not be there anymore xxx

I dont get how the news feed works, cos there is top news, I think thats what it defaults to - but also recent

I often click on recent and there are hundreds of things on there that I wouldn't have seen otherwise

Have you checked that?

at the bottom of the news feed page it says "edit options" click that and you can choose to see everyone's updates or the people you interact with the most. I had to alter mine the other day x

oh Leah - i never knew that!

Mine is set to people I interact with - that suits me!

yup just seen this..


Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately? Have yo......u also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and every...one 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.

Simply posting an update about it won't do any good because lots of your friends/fans already can't see your posts by default. You'll either have to send out a message to everyone on your list (which I'm not even sure business pages can do and is a rather tedious method) or post an event explaining the situation like this one and invite your entire fan base and/or friend list. You can also tweet about it hoping that most of your fellow facebookers are also on twitter.

I've alerted some of the big facebook security sites that I know of and they are working on finding an easier solution for companies to let their customers know about the situation.

Shame on facebook for altering the default setting and not telling people and business pages about it! Just think about how many companies posted Christmas sales and discounts without having any idea that their customers couldn't see the updates.