As Susan Taylor Brown pointed out in the comments of yesterday’s post on Facebook’s new feed options, the current default is that FB will only show you updates from 250 friends in your Live News Feed, no matter how many friends you have. Again, there is a fix. And even if you don’t have that many friends now… you might one day soon!
If you are not familiar with the changes to Facebook’s feed options, you might want to check yesterday’s post first.
With your Live News Feed showing, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Do you see this?
If so, skip the next paragraph. If you do NOT have Edit Options visible on the right hand side, read on. There might be a more traditional way to solve this problem, but what follows is what worked for me. I’m open to hearing other solutions!
To make Edit Options appear, while in the Live News Feed, hover your mouse over any update until the “Hide” option appears to the right of it. Click “Hide” and hide that friend. Now, scroll to the bottom of the screen and you will see “Edit Options” as in the image above. (Note that when you hide someone, you also get an “edit options” choice right by the update you hid. However, clicking on that only lets you control who is in your feed and does NOT let you change the default number of people visible.)
Click “Edit Options” at the bottom of the page. This will bring up a new window for you. In the bottom left of the window, you’ll see:
Change that 250 to a higher number – I chose 5,000, the maximum number of friends FB currently allows. IF you had hidden a friend to get this box to appear, you should now click the X by their name in this same window to UNhide them. Click SAVE.
You’re done! You’ll now see all your friends’ updates in your Live News Feed, not just 250 who Facebook chooses. Again, if anyone has an easier fix, please let me know.
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Greg, this was awesome – you made it so easy! I tried to follow other explanations, but since I didn’t have “edit options” visible, I was stumped. Thanks for being so thorough! Now I can see all 5,000… er… well, all my friends in the feed.
Namaste,
Lee
Hey – for some reason that number of friends box didn’t come up for me. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Lee. And Jennifer – my best guess is that you weren’t viewing the Live News Feed but rather the News Feed (or Status Updates).
If it’s not that, let me know….
You guessed right. Thanks!