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PLEASE READ:
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE WHO USES FACEBOOK FOR BUSINESS OR PERSONAL REASONS AND WISHES TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH THEIR CONTACTS!!
Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed 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 are not hearing from anyone else?
…The problem is that a large chunk of your contact 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 you’ve recently interacted with or have 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 you or your friends/fans commented on one anothers posts within those couple of weeks – you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!!
HERE’S THE FIX:
On your homepage click the “Most Recent” title on the right of the Newsfeed, then click on the drop down arrow beside it and select “Edit Options”. Click on “Show Posts From” and change the setting to “All Of Your Friends and Pages” (you can also access the “Edit Options” link at the very bottom of the Facebook homepage on the right)
Note: Business pages do not have a newsfeed. Owners of business pages should adjust the settings on their personal accounts.
The good news is:
You can now view all of your friends and fans again.
The bad news is:
YOU ARE STILL INVISIBLE to a large portion of your list. If you want to re-establish contact, you will need to get the word out to ALL of your contacts.
FUN!
Just read this again while I had a few minutes to change stuff. I noticed that when I changed my category to Personal Website, my views dropped like a rock and I didn’t know why. Thanks for sharing. I also went back in and changed the setting of my page back to “brands and something or other” & “website” which is what facebook had it listed as originally. Will see if that helps.
Thanks! I shared on my FB page. I really wish they’d stop “improving” Facebook and just let us use it.
good to know
Thanks for the post.
i meant my Have Sippy Will Travel Page, not my personal page, LOL
good to know! i have never used my page to like anything….
Good tips.
Actually business pages do have a news feed. Simply switch to using Facebook as your page, when you go to home you’ll see a feed of all the post from pages your page liked. Assuming you’ve liked other pages as your page, or added them to your page’s favorites.