Do you feel like you’re missing out on Facebook updates from friends, family, and organizations you “like” on the social networking giant? You’re not alone. Recently, Facebook updated its news feed options to allow users to choose between viewing updates from “Friends and pages you interact with most” or “All of your friends and pages.” Unfortunately, it didn’t bother telling people about the change. What’s worse, rather than default to showing everything, the site chose to make the default “Friends and pages you interact with most” for many of its “500 million friends.”
Luckily, changing the setting to view content from all friends and pages is fairly simple. To get started, scroll all the way to the bottom of your news feed, and click the Edit Options link. This will bring up a box titled “Edit Your News Feed Settings.” In it, you’ll find a dropdown list to change your settings. The box also lists any applications, users, or pages that you’ve manually hidden from view. Click the “x” next to any of these to resume getting updates from those sources.
Once you’ve tweaked your overall settings, hiding updates from specific sources is fairly easy, too. Just hover your mouse over one of the updates you’ve received from the user/application/company page you no longer want in your news feed, and click the floating “x” that appears on the right-hand side of the screen. A popup will appear, allowing you to hide just that specific post or all posts by that source. If you decide later that you want to resume receiving updates from that user/application/company page, follow the instructions detailed in the previous paragraph.
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