Thursday, February 17, 2011

Facebook now automatically makes your "looser" friends disappear

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Facebook’s motto seems to be do ALL evil. How else can one explain that they over and over and over again manage to make the most obviously wrong decision. They have repeatedly proven that they cant keep the interests of their users in mind. These prima donnas feel that their users are extremely dumb and constantly need the settings tweaking behind the back.

I am really sick of this irresponsible behaviour. But guess I am stuck unless I find another home. In the meantime I will have to keep checking all my gazillion settings often to see what was changed behind my back. Hopefully I can ask IBM’s watson what did facebook changed today!

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Well this time in their infinite wisdom they have decided that we users have made way too many friends on facebook and this is causing too much clutter on our walls. And we dumb users cant handle this clutter and thus enter our savior the smart facebook overlords decided to secretly step in and give us the facebook-wall-nirvana by automatically making some of our friends disappear. Thus if we had not “interacted” with a friend in a while (i.e clicked om his liked, commented, messaged etc), any updates from those friends will no longer appear on our wall.

Well there is a setting to undo this:

scroll to the bottom of page and click on "edit options"
in the dropdown box select "all friends and pages" instead of "friends and pages you interact most"

This should restore the old way facebook use to work.Hopefully it helps solve the mystery why some of your friends fell from the face of the earth

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