Did you know that Facebook automatically picks which friends you view in your feed? How do they know who you want to talk to? There is a way to fix this! Scroll all the way down to the bottom of your news feed screen. There are two options: “Older Posts” and “Edit Options”. Click “Edit Options”. This screen will pop up:
If you click “View Recommended Friends”, it will bring up a list of all the friends/pages that currently appear in your feeds (in other words, who Facebook thinks you want to hear from.) In the box where the number 5000 is highlighted above, the number of friends/pages that are now shown in your Live Feed will appear. I chose the number 5,000 (the limit) since I have nowhere near 5,000 friends and pages I ‘like’, I will never have to go back and change it. You can put any number here, but remember to make it larger then your amount of friends, to include any pages you also ‘like’, or you won’t see their updates!
Before my computer crisis a few weeks ago, I was a loyal Facebook game player. My games of choice were Yoville, Farmville and Mob Wars. I dabbled in Parking Wars, Smarty Pants and My City. I would go onto Facebook with the primary goal of tending to my crops and working in the Yoville factory and killing some thugs. I actually would schedule errands around when these things had to be done in the games. Then, suddenly, my computer crashed and I *gasp* had to be without it for 5 days. “But my crops!! My crops are gonna die!” was a thought that went through my head that night. I went through some withdrawals. I thought about the poor little virtual me in Yoville, with nothing to do for a few days. When I got my computer back, I had over 150 gift requests for the games. It was then that I realized all of the time that I actually put into them. And what did I get out of it? Absolutely NOTHING. The games are just the biggest time-wasters. They sucked all my time in Facebook away. Time that I could be actually corresponding with friends, which was the reason I joined Facebook in the first place. Since I got my computer back, I took a personal vow to not play the games anymore on Facebook. Thank you to all of my loyal friends who still send me gifts on there, but I am no longer playing them. And it feels good. You should try it.
