Of course, Facebook had to go and fix something that wasn’t broken. Uggh…
If you go to your home page on Facebook, chances are that you won’t see any updates from Freebies2Deals until you scroll from the very bottom. Facebook has chosen (on its own) which feeds it thinks you will like. For me, they were people I don’t even really talk to or follow… and they were at the very top.
So, in order to fix the newsfeed to show what you want and the feeds you actually want to see, here is how you do it:
Click on the right hand corner x on each post on your wall. If it is already a Top News Story, you will see something like this:
Click on the “UnMark as Top Story” link.
If you scroll down further into your newsfeed, you will see that some of the people you actually want to get regular updates from are NOT marked as Top Stories. So you will see something like this:
Just click on “Mark as Top Story” and hopefully it will change your newsfeeds.
You will probably have to do this for just about every feed that shows up on your wall. And, honestly, I think it is such a mess!
If you want to get regular updates from Freebies2Deals, make sure you make it a Top News Story!
This almost makes me not want to post on Facebook at all anymore…
tiffani
I agree! I hate it when facebook goes and changes things. I was so frustrated when I went to it this morning. Please don’t stop posting there, I will willingly scroll to the bottom to find your posts!
tiffani
oh, and thanks so much for showing me how to fix it so the people i dont want as my top stories aren’t my top anymore. and how to get yours to the top
Terri
I agree with Tiffani. Don’t stop posting, and I think we all need to complain like crazy. It’s really nuts how they decide what we want to see.
Michon
https://www.facebook.com/?sk=cf this gives the most recent feeds in order. i found this our of frustration when complaining about this a few days ago in the help section. open facebook as normal, then open a new tab and paste that link.. it has saved my FB sanity!
Christine
I found a faster way- click on the blue earmark in the left corner to unmark as a Top story, and then click in that same spot on the ones you do want to be a top story. Much faster than clicking the x. Still, so annoying how they do this!
Bonny
I HATE IT!!! We should all join Google +
Bonny
Oh and even if you do change your posts to top story they do not all show up and they are all out of order!
Courtney Hamik
Please don’t stop posting on facebook. do they ever get feedback before making these changes!
Sarah Carpenter
Totally agree they shouldn’t be deciding what we want. Frustrating.
Rachel
It’s driving me nuts!
Liza
thanks for the info – of course that’d mean that I’d have to do that to everyone ðŸ™
I went to fb’s help center and sent them some feedback, I hate the new way
Karolynn
I hate it. I just don’t understand why they have to change something that we already working.
Emily D.
I noticed this first thing this morning. What a mess!
Carrie
i agree, i was very upset when i saw it, maybe they will change it , if they get enough complaints!!
Amy
Thank you so much! I have been trying to figure out how to “fix” it!
Lynne
Thanks for the heads up! I thought it appeared pretty quiet with the posters I normally watch for!
Kristin
Thanks for this information. Please keep posting on Facebook it is so helpful and alerts me to check everything on the full blog. Thanks for all your hard work!
Penny
Thanks!
Kayla
Thanks so much for this info!
Janey
I was apparently a test rat on this ’cause I’ve been dealing with it for over 3 weeks! Such a pain and too many friends to visit each persons page every day…..
Kristen
Thank you for posting this. I thought something looked different, but I couldn’t figure it out. Very helpful!
Barb
Thanks for the explanation. Facebook has confused me again!
Elena
It was a big enough pain before when I had to click “most recent” to see the new posts, or else see the same posts come up multiple times. Now I can’t even do that and everything is out of order like others have said. I don’t like having someone tell me what I should be most interested in seeing or reading. I don’t think they did any kind of feedback with this or any change they have done. I have never known of a change occurring until after the fact.
Stacey
If you go to that first x you can choose “all updates” on those you want to always see ex. Family. Or you can go to your profile click on subscriptions and go through your entire friends list. However it does take a while depending on how many friends you have. I’m going to try out google+ for now and see if I like that one better.
Fukstik
The new facebook is just a complete mess… what the hell is that in my news feed??? Since the changes I never saw Pages posts in my news feed… WTF!!!
Danielle Khrino Scranage
I have to agree with all of you!! I hate that Facebook decided that they should tell me what I’m interested in! What posts they want me to see. It’s ridiculous! Now I get 15 posts on the top of my page that are the same! It’s so frustrating! To make it worse my only internet connection is on my android phone. Is there any way to change the settings from mobile Facebook?