How to see more or less of what your friends are saying on Facebook
By default your Facebook account is set up to see MOST UPDATES from friends, as opposed to ALL UPDATES.
Some coding within Facebook’s algorithm automatically decides which status updates you should see. The decisions are based on your previous interactions with your friends.
I’m not a big fan of an algorithm deciding whose updates I should see.
Luckily, there are at least two ways of manually choosing the amount of updates you see from Facebook friends.
Method One
On your Facebook page (not your timeline) look for a status update from a friend or somebody you subscribe to. Over to the right hand side of the update, level with the persons name, is a light-grey downwards arrow (it only appears when you hover over the status).
Click the arrow and you get a box like this:
As you can see, my Facebook account is subscribed to most updates from my friend Ian. To change it, simply click on the option most suitable – All updates or Only important.
In this case I’m going to choose All updates as Ian shares some interesting stuff on Facebook.
If he starts getting on my nerves I can unsubscribe from his updates by selecting the Unsubscribe option.
Method Two
Another way to do this is to access the News Feed.
Scroll down to the bottom of your feed and look for the Edit Options link and click it. You should see a pop-up window titled Edit News Feed settings.
The greyed out names are people I no longer see updates from.
Click on the Manage Subscriptions link to get a list of all your friends. In the right-hand column is the status of your subscription.
Notice the arrows in the picture below? The solid dark-grey circle and light-grey arrow indicates a subscription to all updates, the dark arrow indicates a subscription to most updates.
Change your setting accordingly.
If you have a lot of friends it may take a while adjusting the setting for each, but unfortunately I don’t know of a quicker way of doing this.
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