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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 15 May 2011 15:05

Thanks Sylvia, I have changed mine now, thought it was strangely quiet lately. I only visit FB when I get an e mail from 'friends'.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 15 May 2011 11:09

THANKS SYLVIA
THIS IS TO NUDGE BACK UP

Researching:
FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 May 2011 04:00

I have taken the following from a friend's posting on FB.

True enough, I did what is suggested, found it said "friends with whom you have interacted", changed it to "All of Your Friends and Pages" ... and got several more posts than I'd had


Are you getting ALL your friends Newsfeeds? Read this.

Have you noticed that you are only 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 cir...cle 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 friendlist 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 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: Click on Home at the top right corner of your Facebook screen to get to your News Feed page. Click on the arrow next Top News - Most Recent. Scroll down to the bottom and click on Edit Options, click on Show Posts From and change the setting to All Of Your Friends and Pages. Right below it, you can choose whose posts you do not want to see.

Simply posting an update about it won’t do any good because lots of your friends 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 friend list. ................ Shame on Facebook for altering the default setting and not telling people and business pages about it! ............



I have edited out a little bit to shorten the psoting





sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.