The Social Media: Facebook

While the film "The Social Network" has eight Academy Award nominations, won four Golden Globes as well as four Critics' Choice awards, plus many more prizes and nominations, Facebook (about which the film is based) continues to make changes without necessarily telling its over 350-million users, and many, many boaters are on Facebook.


[Fact: Facebook is the third largest country in the world based on population, just behind China and India.]

[Fact: Facebook played a crucial role in the January 26th uprising in Egypt, as well as protests in other Mideast countries.]


Last Friday in Washington DC's examiner.com,  Tanya Gupta wrote:

Are you wondering why you aren't getting news from Alicia?  Did Bob block you?  Did you "hide" your friends newsfeed and then just forgot?  Are you wondering why more people are not commenting on your posts?

No, you are not being paranoid.

Facebook went and did another change without telling you.  Now the default is that your FB page will only show posts from people you interact with the most or your most recent interactions.  The result is that close friends stay close, whereas the friends you hoped to get closer to through Facebook are slowly becoming invisible to you.

If you want to stay in touch with everyone then re-set your Facebook settings so that you can keep in touch with all your friends.

Go to the bottom on your newsfeed page and find the button that says "edit options". Then select "all of your friends and pages", and save.  This should do it.  But remember - this only fixes it for you so that you see everybody else's feed.  However FB users who don't know about this will still not be able to see your feed.  So let your friends know so that they can change their settings!

(And a shout out to Lesley Scher for passing this on to me)