I stupidly did that new "star" thing where you indicate which people you want important updates from. Now they are showing in my notifications list, so I'm thinking "gee... I have 18 new posts that I need to look at" when really it's just my aunt posting about her nephew's baseball game. Nice and all, but I don't need it in my notifications tab. I can't figure out how to undo it.
I believe you just go to their profile, hover over where it says "Friends" and un-check "Close Friends". It should remove the star but they are still your friend, so you get them in your news feed, just no more notifications.
If it's posted on your timeline, it will show up in the newsfeed. The issue is that FB decides who gets to see what, and I think that if you don't interact with a person regularly, or set them to the close friends list, you won't see much that they post.
I didn't realize this for the longest time. It makes some people think you're ignoring them. There's a way to fix it but it goes back to the default without notice.
Can anyone make sense of this? A friend of a friend (someone I know, but vaguely) is going through a very difficult time, and announced that he was going to purge everyone from his facebook list that wasn't a true real-life friend because he wants to use his page as a place to share intimate updates and find support from his inner circle. Fair enough, and I know I'm not among that group. The thing is, he just posted am update along the lines of, "OK, I finished the purge. If you can read this update, you are among my inner circle. Thanks for being there for me". I clicked to his page, and see that we are not Friends. (I see the button to Add Friend, and not the thingie that says we are friends). What's going on?
Can anyone make sense of this? A friend of a friend (someone I know, but vaguely) is going through a very difficult time, and announced that he was going to purge everyone from his facebook list that wasn't a true real-life friend because he wants to use his page as a place to share intimate updates and find support from his inner circle. Fair enough, and I know I'm not among that group. The thing is, he just posted am update along the lines of, "OK, I finished the purge. If you can read this update, you are among my inner circle. Thanks for being there for me". I clicked to his page, and see that we are not Friends. (I see the button to Add Friend, and not the thingie that says we are friends). What's going on?
Is this update maybe public (globe) or friends of friends?
I guess it could be. There's no way for me to tell, is there? The very point of it was supposed to be to establish who remains on his list and will thus be privy to his personal details, but I guess he could have mistakenly used the wrong settings. We do have mutual friends, so friends of friends would do it.
Yes you can tell. If the update is public it has a globe next to it, if it's friends of friends then it has the little symbol that shows four or five people, and if it's custom then it has a star.
He probably has his default set to public without realizing it. Hopefully someone will point that out to him or else all his personal updates will be visible to anyone.
For the last couple of days I have been getting at least 20 friend requests a day from people I don't know or am connected to in any way (no friends in common etc). A lot of the names sound Eastern European. Anyone have any idea what that could be about?
Is anyone else having trouble seeing their wall posts? I can't see any of mine that were written after December 2010. As far as I know, my privacy settings are the same as they've always been. Hmmm.
ETA: After, not before. I can see posts from December 2010 and back.
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