How to Fix Your Facebook Page

by Lisa on September 23rd, 2011

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You’re not going to see me complaining about the new Facebook.  I always kind of like the changes once I figure them out.  I’ve seen a preview of what’s to come when all of the latest changes are implemented, and let’s just say that some people are going to be freaking out.  Mashable has a great run-down of the Facebook changes.  Soon, Facebook really won’t look like it’s current incarnation at all – including the changes they just implemented.

While I don’t care about the visual changes, I CAN’T STAND when Facebook decides what I want to see on my newsfeed.  The point of Facebook is that you don’t have to interact with everyone, right?  So why should they decide what I want to see based on the 3 people with whom I regularly interact? For the past couple of days I’ve been wondering why only those three people have been showing up in my newsfeed, and then I remembered that Facebook thinks they know best.

If they’ve done the same to you, here’s how to get everything appearing back in your feed again – including updates from us!

I’ve seen a couple of ways to make your feed the way it used to be, but this is the one that made the most sense.  If you know of an easier way, please share!

 

Make an ‘Everyone’ list.

Go to your Facebook page and click on HOME in the upper right hand corner.

Then, on the left hand side locate LISTS. Click next to LISTS where it says MORE and click Create List.

Name your list.

Next, ‘Add Friends’ to your new list.  Add all the friends you want to follow.

Then, to find Pages, click where it says Friends on the top left and then click Pages. Click on the pages that you want to follow regularly.

Now, when you click on your new list, everyone should be there.

You MAY need to click on your new list in the left sidebar every time you sign into Facebook to see everyone and not just the people Facebook recommends.  Annoying!

 

Good Luck, everyone!

 

Thanks to MojoSavings for the tip!

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Thank you for the easy to follow instructions on creating your own list.

The only thing I would add is that to edit your custom list, click Manage List in the top right of the screen. You can then add more friends or pages to your new list.

And, you're right, everytime I log I have to always click on my custom list to see those updates - - - Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't "remember"