Facebook Automatically Hides Public Profile Feed Items From Your Feed

Since the launch of Facebook’s redesign, users have been filing their complaints about the new layout. Whether it’s problem’s with Facebook’s “real-time” news feed or issues with public profile feed updates not showing up in users’ feeds, we’ve been receiving a ton of feedback. This morning, Dominic Grant brought to our attention an issue with Public Profiles being hid by default. Those public profiles (previously called “pages”) that you subscribed to before the change, may not be showing up in your feed and we’ve found out why.

When the new layout went live, Facebook automatically determined which profiles we wanted to have displayed in our feeds. Interestingly, a large portion of public profiles were hidden. For me, 28 out of the 69 companies I had become a fan of, no longer had access to my feed. Others have complained that a larger portion of their public profiles had been removed.

So what determines which pages are displayed? Unfortunately I don’t know yet but I’ve reached out to Facebook for clarification and will update this post as soon as I find out. There are also users included under “hidden friends” which I’m guessing have been populated based on your privacy settings. It doesn’t make much sense to automatically add a large portion of public profiles to this list though.

If you’ve noticed that a large number of the status updates you are posting haven’t made it to users’ feeds, this is most likely the reason why. I found that a large number of the public profiles I was actually interested in, had been placed in this list. Ultimately, all new pages that you have subscribed to will automatically be able to post to your feed.

My guess is that feed permissions were based on when you became a fan of each individual brand. Are you noticing problems with reaching users’ feeds?

-Hidden Facebook Public Profiles Screenshot-

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472551 Comments2009-03-20+13%3A07%3A01Nick+O%27Neill »

YES!!! I have been trying to get an answer from Facebook or anyone who would listen as to why my company's status updates aren't showing up in my fan's newsfeed. THANK YOU! I felt like I was talking to a wall. Where do you find the list of pages hidden from your newsfeed as shown above?

Comment by Julie Bailey — March 20, 2009 @ 5:15 am
Nick,

I was actually going to contact you about this as i came across this about a week ago. I noticed that only 2 of my pages were coming through my feed even when the others had their status updated.

I even tried to unpublish my page and then republish it, but to no avail. One way it did come into my feed was if I was to stop becoming a fan and then re becoming a fan, which would reset it.

I then found the show hidden friends part down the bottom right and found over 60 pages i had become a fan of were hidden!

It is really disappointing that facebook would do this, as it totally affects the use of facebook for some companies.

If it's possible, I hope you can get it through to facebook to make all pages visible in the news feed.

Comment by Christos Winter — March 20, 2009 @ 5:16 am
I have all public profiles I am fan of hidden, except Allfacebook.com.

Comment by Misha — March 20, 2009 @ 5:19 am
Is there a way to add these newsfeeds? Is there a way to ensure my updates are going on fan's newsfeeds?

I've have noticed, however, that if you are a page admin you won't see any status updates in your own personal newsfeeds. I had to test it to confirm.

page: Miller Electric Welders

almost 8,000 fans – welders like facebook – who knew?

Comment by Dana King — March 20, 2009 @ 5:24 am
Nick,

Good stuff. Thanks.

It may not longer be the case (i.e., the bug may have been fixed), but I found last week that old preferences were screwing up which Friends were seen on the News Feed. No matter how many times I added them to the News Feed, the returned to the list of hidden Friends. This was based on selections in the old, News Feed "control panel.

Fortunately, the old control panel is still accessible on http://www.new.facebook.com/feed_prefs.php . To address this bug, I went to the old slider page and deleted the names of friends I listed for "More About These Friends" and "Less About These Friends". Then, I clicked the "Reset All" button to get the little faders to line up in the middle.

Viola! I was not able to use the new interface to choose whom to see and whom to hide.

Comment by Neil Glassman — March 20, 2009 @ 5:28 am
Thanks for this post, Nick. I would say about half of my pages were not on my news feed list as well. Crazy.

In your post you mentioned "There are also users included under “hidden friends” which I’m guessing have been populated based on your privacy settings."

The friends that are "hidden friends" are those friends you previously put on the "less about these friends" from the old feed model that Neil Glassman referenced in his post.

Comment by Chad Estes — March 20, 2009 @ 6:11 am
How do you find this Hidden from Newsfeed control? I can't find it. Please help!

I guess the solution then is to send a fan update, explaining to fans how to unhide our news feeds, if they choose to do so.

I am glad to hear about this because we had been averaging 100 new fans per week, driven by once a week updates, and since Facebook switched over this has dropped to only 20 fans per week. I kept waiting around thinking eventually this feature would kick in, since I am getting Facebook feeds and a few others.

Comment by Jennifer — March 20, 2009 @ 6:50 am
Thanks for pointing this out. I noticed all of the pages I'm a fan of being in the hidden friends section. This is disturbing to a public profile admin because the biggest win with the new design was status updates. If this is the way things will be going forward then our fans will have to essentially opt into seeing status updates, but who's gonna tell them to look in the hidden friends section to do so?

Dana, as a page admin you can see your page's status updates if you click on the public profile filter, but you're right they don't seem to show up in the default news feed filter.

Comment by Dylan Easley — March 20, 2009 @ 7:20 am
thanks for the news, but how rediculous is this!

Comment by Facebook User — March 20, 2009 @ 9:03 am
Thank you so much for this article. I didn't even realize I was missing so much. Almost all of the pages I am a fan of were not showing up and as a result, I was missing some pretty important stuff.

Comment by Monique — March 20, 2009 @ 9:05 am
I think this has to do with the fact that Facebook was only going to include premium partners in the newsfeed but I haven't confirmed this or cross referenced a list of who is included etc.

Comment by Paul Malin — March 20, 2009 @ 9:32 am
I noticed that several of the pages I administer were not showing up in feeds. One thing they ALL have in common is they were pages that were rolled over from the fanpage format. It seems that rolling the pages over somehow defaults them to be hidden from updates, thus rendering them completely useless, as no average FB user will know to activate updates for each page. I'm so pissed right now…

Comment by Jonathan — March 20, 2009 @ 10:06 am
It would be great if you actually pointed out where to find this control panel.. thanks.

Comment by Max Miles — March 20, 2009 @ 10:10 am
So…. What's the point of these new fan pages then? I've been for the redesign ever since it was announced, but it makes absolutely no sense to convert Pages to be centered on status updates, and then not deliver those status updates to fans.

Comment by Ilya Yakubovich — March 20, 2009 @ 10:20 am
Anyone notice how the "Update All Fans" on your Pages is now near worthless? The messages go to your Inbox, but in the last "Updates" tab.

Facebook Pages may now have more hype and less ROI than Twitter.

Comment by Dbag — March 20, 2009 @ 10:39 am
For those looking to find the menu described in the post. The only way I've been able to get at it is to actually "hide" an item in your existing news feed. Facebook will them prompt you with a message that has a link to the menu where you can "unhide" both friends and public pages.

Personally, I was also surprised at just how many people were hidden in my menu. I think the old messaging of "show fewer updates" turned into "hidden" in the new layout.

Comment by Dustin Luther — March 20, 2009 @ 10:47 am
Okay I figured it out – scroll all the way down to the bottom of your news feed, and you'll see a link that says "Hidden Friends."

However, I just sent our fan base an update, describing how to unhide us, and much to my chagrin, there is no notification that an update has come into the Update portion of the inbox!!

Very klugey, Facebook.

Comment by Jennifer — March 20, 2009 @ 11:04 am
Perfect, thanks Dustin!!

Comment by Max Miles — March 20, 2009 @ 11:06 am
To find the hidden public profiles, scroll to the bottom of your newsfeed and click on "See Hidden Friends." In the pop-up box that appears, click on "Public Profiles." All of the Public Profiles I added were hidden except for the New York Times.

Considering the way that Facebook marketed the new setup as a boon for companies creating public profiles, this seems like a horrible bit of bait and switch.

Comment by Beth — March 20, 2009 @ 11:06 am
Thanks for finding this (have been going crazy wondering where this great new FB feature was).

I seem to have about 3 pages that were showing and all the rest of mine were hidden.

FB s/fix this as this is what their docs on the new public/fan pages explicitly states as a benefit.

Comment by David Markowitz — March 20, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
——–

UPDATE

——–

As i'm in Australia I just got this message at the top of my news feed a bit earlier than most.

–

Pages are now a part of News Feed

From now on, posts from Pages you are a fan of will show up in your News Feed. You can hide their posts by clicking the ‘x’ in the top right corner of the post. If you would like to see posts from Pages you connected to in the past, click here.

–

So it looks as though they waited just a while so that people got used to the new profile first before bombarding them with page updates.

Great timing of the article though!

Comment by Christos Winter — March 20, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
Ay yi yi, facebook is getting too complex. Good thing we have a forum like this to sort some of its complexity out. Nice work Neil Glassman for keeping that old cp link. I've been looking all over for it. Guess I need to start keeping an archive and screenshots of things on facebook.

Comment by mojaam — March 20, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
Wow..Your blog is wonderful.Thanks for the info

Comment by Rani — March 21, 2009 @ 12:35 am
I think it's pretty ironic that FB doesn't want to bombard us with Page updates to fans, but they don't seem to have a problem with the 15 quizzes, 8 Peeps and assorted other gift junk generated by friends that are "spamming" my home page this morning since the big "change"…

It's ridiculous…and it's killing some fan Pages.

Comment by MLM — March 22, 2009 @ 6:23 am
I've been a big supporter of FB pages and their ROI for small businesses, but as they've now deystroyed all of the audience that these small businesses have fought to build up, I think a class action law suit is in order!

Comment by Andrew Peterson — March 22, 2009 @ 8:29 pm
I hid some friends so I could find a particular post. My page was too cluttered. Now I can not retrieve them. Absolutely nothing happens when I click on add to news feed! And none of my public profiles comes through at all, nor does anything happen when I click on adding them to my newsfeed.

Comment by Melissa Sedlis — March 23, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
It is possible that Facebook only delayed showing page posts in the feed so as not to inundate people with these posts (though my suspicion is that it was just a big goof). But the problem with the notice that they’ve put on user’s home pages now is that is seems to *still require that users manually unhide our pages.*

Note the wording: “If you would like to see posts from Pages you connected to in the past, click here.” Clicking the link brings up the list of pages that are *still hidden.* So unless users realize that they need to click that link and manually unhide us — our page posts are still never going to show up.

So Facebook seems to have offered a “solution” to their glitch/bad-idea — but it’s a really poor one.

Comment by Andrew — March 23, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
… hem.. i clicked hide and now i don't have the connection to "hide/unhide" selectio for pages view in NewsFeed … where is the option? someone can post the link? tnx!!

Comment by Cantor — March 26, 2009 @ 10:51 am
At the bottom of the feed, there's a button that says "Show Hidden Friends". You can restore hidden pages from here.

Comment by Facebook User — March 26, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
I have the opposite request: How do I HIDE FRIENDS? I previously had a list of friends to hide, another list to push forward. As of today – the hidden friends are again clogging my page with dozens of daily posts and I am unable to find the button that allows me to weight the list. The privacy settings don't have an option to weight access to my news feed. Any suggestions?

Comment by Peggy Weil — April 8, 2009 @ 7:01 am
finally, thanks to you I found the sollution for this anoying problem! I have a fanpage as well and I couldn’t figure out how to get updates and messages on the newsfeed!

Comment by maryse willems — April 14, 2009 @ 4:08 am
I don't have a "Show Hidden Friends" link at the bottom — can anybody give me more direction on how to find that?

Comment by Robert Holshouser — May 6, 2009 @ 7:47 am
Hi there,

Great post! I was desperate too!.

I understand these problems with previous and old pages before redesign… BUT I also have this problem creating a NEW fan page. I do that, some of my friends joins but any of them receive my wall/links updates. Anyone could help me?

Thanks!

Comment by Jessy — May 13, 2009 @ 6:23 pm
My problem is similar, but apparently different. I used to have a list of Pages in my profile, of all the pages I am a fan of. Never mind that updates don't show up in my newsfeed, I don't even have a Pages section in my profile anymore. This changed about a week ago, and i have no idea how to fix it

Comment by Rob Miles — May 20, 2009 @ 5:01 am
DITTO here.

NO More PAGES that i am a fan of in my PROFILE.
(listed at the bottom of the info tab)

WTH?

Comment by lawrence — June 9, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
Heureka.

Comment by segovesus — July 15, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Great article! I've just recently created a fan page for my new small business, and have a small group of 25 fans, so I don't have the legacy issue of being converted from before, but I'm still not seeing fan page updates on people's news feeds.

I've asked a few fans to check their "hidden friends/pages" but my page is not there. Is there a minimum number of fans you need to have before Facebook starts automatically posting your page updates to your fans' news feeds? Would it having anything to do with the fact that my page is related to an actual company, instead of a music group / non-profit / tv-show, etc?

Appreciate any insights anyone might have.

Comment by Jon — September 8, 2009 @ 10:56 pm
ditto Jon's post: new page, fewer than 50 fans, no wall posts showing in fans's news feeds. not the legacy issue – so what is it? I don't want to start any fan-building campaigns until I know that I can reach fans with updates!

I posted a query on facebook, but don't think I'll get a response before the end of the year.

HELP!

Comment by erica — September 9, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
When the edit window pops up it ALWAYS cuts off the right hand corner where the scroll buttons are located. I THEREFORE CANNOT SCROLL UP OR DOWN TO SEE THE ENTIRE LIST. How can I extend the window to the right?

Comment by Jen — September 19, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
The problem is that Facebook have auto-capped the number of feeds every user can see in their home feed. Mine was capped at 250, when I increased this (EDIT OPTIONS at foot of Feed on HomePage) to 5000, I saw every 'Freinds' updates AND my updates to my Fanpage Wall, which I couldn't see previously.

Surely the default should be to see all and THEN let each user customise it down? The opposite is a nightmare!

@AraTheCoach

Comment by Ara Steven — November 20, 2009 @ 9:31 am
How do I unhide notifications? I accidentally clicked yes to hide all, and I didn't notice that it would erase the wall to wall conversations between me and that person too.

Comment by Denise — December 22, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
were are my friends i used to go to the site and find all my friends now were the hell are they please help why did have to change

Comment by enzo volpe — February 9, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Where are my facebook friends. When you changed over today, now the updates on news feeds are sporadic. They might show up one time and not the next. Mostly not.

Comment by Jesse Morris — February 9, 2010 @ 5:44 pm
How do you get evrything to show up? I’ve tried everything here and can’t get any updates on friends/games…

Comment by pam — February 9, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Okay, I scroll down to the bottom of the NewFeed and I have Edit Options, there is no hidden friends page at all. The other day it gave me choices when I went to edit options which I just left alone until I heard what I was supposed to do. Now when I click on it all it says is: The following streams are hidden from your News Feed. Click "Add to News Feed" to see their posts again. There is nothing there to click on. Does that mean there is nothing hidden? If that is not the case then how to I get the option back to unhide friends because I am still not seeing some of them. Where is the Hidden Friends, I can't find mine. Thanks for any help.

Comment by Marti — February 11, 2010 @ 5:01 am
Ok I agree with Marti and others who have posted. There is NO hidden friends link at the bottom of my news feed page, only edit options and that only lets me edit fan pages I have hidden. I need to find the apps that I have hidden so I can put them back on my news feed page. A straight answer would really be helpful here.

Comment by Robin — February 27, 2010 @ 11:14 am
i hid some apps that my daughter wasnt playing now whe wants to play. i went to news feed then to bottom of the page to edit options the next window that pops up looks like it is triing to load but it wont. i need some help she wants to play frontierville but can see no post. what do we do. can someone correct this glitch i have tried going back the last few days. and its always the same. i corrected it on mine but hers will not work.

Comment by teresa dekalands — August 6, 2010 @ 8:18 pm
please send comment to her mail. i will get it from there if that is possible

Comment by teresa dekalands — August 6, 2010 @ 8:19 pm
Please help I have no notifications showing from the page I am admin of in my news feed. Also not showing on majority of fans news feed. Tried clicking edit options at bottom of page but nothing is listed as hidden in the box. This is a major problem!

Comment by Joyce — September 25, 2010 @ 8:51 am
Just figured this out…Go to your News Feed…scroll down to the bottom and click on Edit Options…under Show Posts From, make sure you have All of Your Friends and Pages selected. Make sure you save it, or it won't take effect.

Comment by Leslie — February 21, 2011 @ 5:27 pm
This is the only post I can find that addresses this, but unfortunately, I still can't fix this. I don't have a business or org. page, I am just a fan of several pages that no longer show up in my news feed. I have clicked Edit Options on my newsfeed, but there's nothing under hidden or blocked people or pages Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thank you.

Comment by Pam — January 4, 2012 @ 2:19 pm

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YES!!! I have been trying to get an answer from Facebook or anyone who would listen as to why my company's status updates aren't showing up in my fan's newsfeed. THANK YOU! I felt like I was talking to a wall. Where do you find the list of pages hidden from your newsfeed as shown above?

Comment by Julie Bailey — March 20, 2009 @ 5:15 am

Nick,

I was actually going to contact you about this as i came across this about a week ago. I noticed that only 2 of my pages were coming through my feed even when the others had their status updated.

I even tried to unpublish my page and then republish it, but to no avail. One way it did come into my feed was if I was to stop becoming a fan and then re becoming a fan, which would reset it.

I then found the show hidden friends part down the bottom right and found over 60 pages i had become a fan of were hidden!

It is really disappointing that facebook would do this, as it totally affects the use of facebook for some companies.

If it's possible, I hope you can get it through to facebook to make all pages visible in the news feed.

Comment by Christos Winter — March 20, 2009 @ 5:16 am

I have all public profiles I am fan of hidden, except Allfacebook.com.

Comment by Misha — March 20, 2009 @ 5:19 am

Is there a way to add these newsfeeds? Is there a way to ensure my updates are going on fan's newsfeeds?

I've have noticed, however, that if you are a page admin you won't see any status updates in your own personal newsfeeds. I had to test it to confirm.

page: Miller Electric Welders

almost 8,000 fans – welders like facebook – who knew?

Comment by Dana King — March 20, 2009 @ 5:24 am

Good stuff. Thanks.

It may not longer be the case (i.e., the bug may have been fixed), but I found last week that old preferences were screwing up which Friends were seen on the News Feed. No matter how many times I added them to the News Feed, the returned to the list of hidden Friends. This was based on selections in the old, News Feed "control panel.

Fortunately, the old control panel is still accessible on http://www.new.facebook.com/feed_prefs.php . To address this bug, I went to the old slider page and deleted the names of friends I listed for "More About These Friends" and "Less About These Friends". Then, I clicked the "Reset All" button to get the little faders to line up in the middle.

Viola! I was not able to use the new interface to choose whom to see and whom to hide.

Comment by Neil Glassman — March 20, 2009 @ 5:28 am

Thanks for this post, Nick. I would say about half of my pages were not on my news feed list as well. Crazy.

In your post you mentioned "There are also users included under “hidden friends” which I’m guessing have been populated based on your privacy settings."

The friends that are "hidden friends" are those friends you previously put on the "less about these friends" from the old feed model that Neil Glassman referenced in his post.

Comment by Chad Estes — March 20, 2009 @ 6:11 am

How do you find this Hidden from Newsfeed control? I can't find it. Please help!

I guess the solution then is to send a fan update, explaining to fans how to unhide our news feeds, if they choose to do so.

I am glad to hear about this because we had been averaging 100 new fans per week, driven by once a week updates, and since Facebook switched over this has dropped to only 20 fans per week. I kept waiting around thinking eventually this feature would kick in, since I am getting Facebook feeds and a few others.

Comment by Jennifer — March 20, 2009 @ 6:50 am

Thanks for pointing this out. I noticed all of the pages I'm a fan of being in the hidden friends section. This is disturbing to a public profile admin because the biggest win with the new design was status updates. If this is the way things will be going forward then our fans will have to essentially opt into seeing status updates, but who's gonna tell them to look in the hidden friends section to do so?

Dana, as a page admin you can see your page's status updates if you click on the public profile filter, but you're right they don't seem to show up in the default news feed filter.

Comment by Dylan Easley — March 20, 2009 @ 7:20 am

thanks for the news, but how rediculous is this!

Comment by Facebook User — March 20, 2009 @ 9:03 am

Thank you so much for this article. I didn't even realize I was missing so much. Almost all of the pages I am a fan of were not showing up and as a result, I was missing some pretty important stuff.

Comment by Monique — March 20, 2009 @ 9:05 am

I think this has to do with the fact that Facebook was only going to include premium partners in the newsfeed but I haven't confirmed this or cross referenced a list of who is included etc.

Comment by Paul Malin — March 20, 2009 @ 9:32 am

I noticed that several of the pages I administer were not showing up in feeds. One thing they ALL have in common is they were pages that were rolled over from the fanpage format. It seems that rolling the pages over somehow defaults them to be hidden from updates, thus rendering them completely useless, as no average FB user will know to activate updates for each page. I'm so pissed right now…

Comment by Jonathan — March 20, 2009 @ 10:06 am

It would be great if you actually pointed out where to find this control panel.. thanks.

Comment by Max Miles — March 20, 2009 @ 10:10 am

So…. What's the point of these new fan pages then? I've been for the redesign ever since it was announced, but it makes absolutely no sense to convert Pages to be centered on status updates, and then not deliver those status updates to fans.

Comment by Ilya Yakubovich — March 20, 2009 @ 10:20 am

Anyone notice how the "Update All Fans" on your Pages is now near worthless? The messages go to your Inbox, but in the last "Updates" tab.

Facebook Pages may now have more hype and less ROI than Twitter.

Comment by Dbag — March 20, 2009 @ 10:39 am

For those looking to find the menu described in the post. The only way I've been able to get at it is to actually "hide" an item in your existing news feed. Facebook will them prompt you with a message that has a link to the menu where you can "unhide" both friends and public pages.

Personally, I was also surprised at just how many people were hidden in my menu. I think the old messaging of "show fewer updates" turned into "hidden" in the new layout.

Comment by Dustin Luther — March 20, 2009 @ 10:47 am

Okay I figured it out – scroll all the way down to the bottom of your news feed, and you'll see a link that says "Hidden Friends."

However, I just sent our fan base an update, describing how to unhide us, and much to my chagrin, there is no notification that an update has come into the Update portion of the inbox!!

Very klugey, Facebook.

Comment by Jennifer — March 20, 2009 @ 11:04 am

Perfect, thanks Dustin!!

Comment by Max Miles — March 20, 2009 @ 11:06 am

To find the hidden public profiles, scroll to the bottom of your newsfeed and click on "See Hidden Friends." In the pop-up box that appears, click on "Public Profiles." All of the Public Profiles I added were hidden except for the New York Times.

Considering the way that Facebook marketed the new setup as a boon for companies creating public profiles, this seems like a horrible bit of bait and switch.

Comment by Beth — March 20, 2009 @ 11:06 am

Thanks for finding this (have been going crazy wondering where this great new FB feature was).

I seem to have about 3 pages that were showing and all the rest of mine were hidden.

FB s/fix this as this is what their docs on the new public/fan pages explicitly states as a benefit.

Comment by David Markowitz — March 20, 2009 @ 2:00 pm

——–

UPDATE

As i'm in Australia I just got this message at the top of my news feed a bit earlier than most.

–

Pages are now a part of News Feed

From now on, posts from Pages you are a fan of will show up in your News Feed. You can hide their posts by clicking the ‘x’ in the top right corner of the post. If you would like to see posts from Pages you connected to in the past, click here.

So it looks as though they waited just a while so that people got used to the new profile first before bombarding them with page updates.

Great timing of the article though!

Comment by Christos Winter — March 20, 2009 @ 4:54 pm

Ay yi yi, facebook is getting too complex. Good thing we have a forum like this to sort some of its complexity out. Nice work Neil Glassman for keeping that old cp link. I've been looking all over for it. Guess I need to start keeping an archive and screenshots of things on facebook.

Comment by mojaam — March 20, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

Wow..Your blog is wonderful.Thanks for the info

Comment by Rani — March 21, 2009 @ 12:35 am

I think it's pretty ironic that FB doesn't want to bombard us with Page updates to fans, but they don't seem to have a problem with the 15 quizzes, 8 Peeps and assorted other gift junk generated by friends that are "spamming" my home page this morning since the big "change"…

It's ridiculous…and it's killing some fan Pages.

Comment by MLM — March 22, 2009 @ 6:23 am

I've been a big supporter of FB pages and their ROI for small businesses, but as they've now deystroyed all of the audience that these small businesses have fought to build up, I think a class action law suit is in order!

Comment by Andrew Peterson — March 22, 2009 @ 8:29 pm

I hid some friends so I could find a particular post. My page was too cluttered. Now I can not retrieve them. Absolutely nothing happens when I click on add to news feed! And none of my public profiles comes through at all, nor does anything happen when I click on adding them to my newsfeed.

Comment by Melissa Sedlis — March 23, 2009 @ 12:39 pm

It is possible that Facebook only delayed showing page posts in the feed so as not to inundate people with these posts (though my suspicion is that it was just a big goof). But the problem with the notice that they’ve put on user’s home pages now is that is seems to *still require that users manually unhide our pages.*

Note the wording: “If you would like to see posts from Pages you connected to in the past, click here.” Clicking the link brings up the list of pages that are *still hidden.* So unless users realize that they need to click that link and manually unhide us — our page posts are still never going to show up.

So Facebook seems to have offered a “solution” to their glitch/bad-idea — but it’s a really poor one.

Comment by Andrew — March 23, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

… hem.. i clicked hide and now i don't have the connection to "hide/unhide" selectio for pages view in NewsFeed … where is the option? someone can post the link? tnx!!

Comment by Cantor — March 26, 2009 @ 10:51 am

At the bottom of the feed, there's a button that says "Show Hidden Friends". You can restore hidden pages from here.

Comment by Facebook User — March 26, 2009 @ 1:17 pm

I have the opposite request: How do I HIDE FRIENDS? I previously had a list of friends to hide, another list to push forward. As of today – the hidden friends are again clogging my page with dozens of daily posts and I am unable to find the button that allows me to weight the list. The privacy settings don't have an option to weight access to my news feed. Any suggestions?

Comment by Peggy Weil — April 8, 2009 @ 7:01 am

finally, thanks to you I found the sollution for this anoying problem! I have a fanpage as well and I couldn’t figure out how to get updates and messages on the newsfeed!

Comment by maryse willems — April 14, 2009 @ 4:08 am

I don't have a "Show Hidden Friends" link at the bottom — can anybody give me more direction on how to find that?

Comment by Robert Holshouser — May 6, 2009 @ 7:47 am

Hi there,

Great post! I was desperate too!.

I understand these problems with previous and old pages before redesign… BUT I also have this problem creating a NEW fan page. I do that, some of my friends joins but any of them receive my wall/links updates. Anyone could help me?

Thanks!

Comment by Jessy — May 13, 2009 @ 6:23 pm

My problem is similar, but apparently different. I used to have a list of Pages in my profile, of all the pages I am a fan of. Never mind that updates don't show up in my newsfeed, I don't even have a Pages section in my profile anymore. This changed about a week ago, and i have no idea how to fix it

Comment by Rob Miles — May 20, 2009 @ 5:01 am

DITTO here.

NO More PAGES that i am a fan of in my PROFILE.
(listed at the bottom of the info tab)

WTH?

Comment by lawrence — June 9, 2009 @ 1:41 pm

Heureka.

Comment by segovesus — July 15, 2009 @ 1:23 pm

Great article! I've just recently created a fan page for my new small business, and have a small group of 25 fans, so I don't have the legacy issue of being converted from before, but I'm still not seeing fan page updates on people's news feeds.

I've asked a few fans to check their "hidden friends/pages" but my page is not there. Is there a minimum number of fans you need to have before Facebook starts automatically posting your page updates to your fans' news feeds? Would it having anything to do with the fact that my page is related to an actual company, instead of a music group / non-profit / tv-show, etc?

Appreciate any insights anyone might have.

Comment by Jon — September 8, 2009 @ 10:56 pm

ditto Jon's post: new page, fewer than 50 fans, no wall posts showing in fans's news feeds. not the legacy issue – so what is it? I don't want to start any fan-building campaigns until I know that I can reach fans with updates!

I posted a query on facebook, but don't think I'll get a response before the end of the year.

HELP!

Comment by erica — September 9, 2009 @ 1:05 pm

When the edit window pops up it ALWAYS cuts off the right hand corner where the scroll buttons are located. I THEREFORE CANNOT SCROLL UP OR DOWN TO SEE THE ENTIRE LIST. How can I extend the window to the right?

Comment by Jen — September 19, 2009 @ 10:36 pm

The problem is that Facebook have auto-capped the number of feeds every user can see in their home feed. Mine was capped at 250, when I increased this (EDIT OPTIONS at foot of Feed on HomePage) to 5000, I saw every 'Freinds' updates AND my updates to my Fanpage Wall, which I couldn't see previously.

Surely the default should be to see all and THEN let each user customise it down? The opposite is a nightmare!

@AraTheCoach

Comment by Ara Steven — November 20, 2009 @ 9:31 am

How do I unhide notifications? I accidentally clicked yes to hide all, and I didn't notice that it would erase the wall to wall conversations between me and that person too.

Comment by Denise — December 22, 2009 @ 7:53 pm

were are my friends i used to go to the site and find all my friends now were the hell are they please help why did have to change

Comment by enzo volpe — February 9, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

Where are my facebook friends. When you changed over today, now the updates on news feeds are sporadic. They might show up one time and not the next. Mostly not.

Comment by Jesse Morris — February 9, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

How do you get evrything to show up? I’ve tried everything here and can’t get any updates on friends/games…

Comment by pam — February 9, 2010 @ 8:26 pm

Okay, I scroll down to the bottom of the NewFeed and I have Edit Options, there is no hidden friends page at all. The other day it gave me choices when I went to edit options which I just left alone until I heard what I was supposed to do. Now when I click on it all it says is: The following streams are hidden from your News Feed. Click "Add to News Feed" to see their posts again. There is nothing there to click on. Does that mean there is nothing hidden? If that is not the case then how to I get the option back to unhide friends because I am still not seeing some of them. Where is the Hidden Friends, I can't find mine. Thanks for any help.

Comment by Marti — February 11, 2010 @ 5:01 am

Ok I agree with Marti and others who have posted. There is NO hidden friends link at the bottom of my news feed page, only edit options and that only lets me edit fan pages I have hidden. I need to find the apps that I have hidden so I can put them back on my news feed page. A straight answer would really be helpful here.

Comment by Robin — February 27, 2010 @ 11:14 am

i hid some apps that my daughter wasnt playing now whe wants to play. i went to news feed then to bottom of the page to edit options the next window that pops up looks like it is triing to load but it wont. i need some help she wants to play frontierville but can see no post. what do we do. can someone correct this glitch i have tried going back the last few days. and its always the same. i corrected it on mine but hers will not work.

Comment by teresa dekalands — August 6, 2010 @ 8:18 pm

please send comment to her mail. i will get it from there if that is possible

Comment by teresa dekalands — August 6, 2010 @ 8:19 pm

Please help I have no notifications showing from the page I am admin of in my news feed. Also not showing on majority of fans news feed. Tried clicking edit options at bottom of page but nothing is listed as hidden in the box. This is a major problem!

Comment by Joyce — September 25, 2010 @ 8:51 am

Just figured this out…Go to your News Feed…scroll down to the bottom and click on Edit Options…under Show Posts From, make sure you have All of Your Friends and Pages selected. Make sure you save it, or it won't take effect.

Comment by Leslie — February 21, 2011 @ 5:27 pm

This is the only post I can find that addresses this, but unfortunately, I still can't fix this. I don't have a business or org. page, I am just a fan of several pages that no longer show up in my news feed. I have clicked Edit Options on my newsfeed, but there's nothing under hidden or blocked people or pages Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thank you.

Comment by Pam — January 4, 2012 @ 2:19 pm

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