How to view ALL friend updates on the new Facebook
Facebook recently made some changes to the way they display news updates from your friends. No longer are displays from all of your friends included, in fact, they have it setup as a default to only display updates from 250 friends, even though the friend limit is still 5,000. I would assume this was done to decrease load on their servers. Unfortunately, it also impacts a Facebook user's ability to stay virtually connected to each other, since you can't readily see all updates without manual intervention. Well, there is a pretty simple change you can make to display the news updates from all of your Facebook friends... here's how you do it.
As an FYI, this came to my attention because a couple gamers emailed me asking why they weren't seeing all of their friends' updates for different Facebook games, like Farmville, Mafia Wars, Mob Wars, Pet Society and other similar gamers.
Update: from comment #10, John...
"If your in Live Feed, and your not getting the Edit Options or the option to change the amount of friends is not there, just hide several different people or apps and try again. It should show up for you now. That's what i had to do".
Step one: From your Facebook home page near the top of your news feed you'll see a link that says View Live Feed, click it.
Step two: Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link that says Edit Options.
Step three: An option popup will appear, now change the default setting from 250 to 5000, as pictured below, and click Save.
It should look like this before you click save.
That's it, you're done.
If that doesn't work for you then you'll need to log out of Facebook, clear your browser's cookies and cache, and then login and perform the above steps. That should fix it and you will now see updates from all of your friends on Facebook. Anything I missed? Post it in the comments. Find this helpful? Share the link with your Facebook friends.
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Comments
The ‘Edit Options’ isn’t visible in the place you mentioned looking. I’ve been trying all sorts of ways to make it appear or find it somewhere else. There’s just ‘Older Posts’ on the left of the blue rectangle.
I also do not have the edit option link next to the “Older posts”. Is this because I use Internet Explorer as my web browser?
I’m using Mozilla Firefox, and I also don’t have an “edit options” link at the bottom.
Hmmm…. I just double checked on my account as well as someone else’s (using Firefox) and we both have the edit options button there. Mind you, you won’t see it until you’ve selected the ‘View Live Feed’ option up top first… then scroll down and you should see it. If anyone else initially could not find it, and then did, please post how since I cannot duplicate the problem you guys are having.
I don’t have edit options either, tried all ways argh!!
I tried what you said, even logged out and back in…there is no Edit/Options button at the bottom.
Edit options will not show unless you first hide something, pick anything maybe a spammer, hide them , Then look at the bottom, right side of pale blue bar
Scott: All that does is give you the option to show the person you just hid. No other choices.
I had to hide lots of applications, such as Farmville, Friend of the day, etc at least 5 applications, then suddenly the edit options DID have the screen where you can change 250 to 5000.
If your in Live Feed, and your not getting the Edit Options or the option to change the amount of friends is not there, just hide several different people or apps and try again. It should show up for you now. That’s what i had to do.
I Can’t see the edit options button i have tried many times
I have a macbook and i don’t know if that has to do with anything or not
Same problem, cannot see the Edit Options. How do you hide “applications” or “spammer” or others??? I tried to limit the access to “only me” on many of my applications, that still didn’t work. Hope someone finds out really soon. Thanks.
Has everyone tried John’s suggestion? (comment #10 just above)
At the top of the page you have two choices view news feed or view live feed you have to be in live feed.
I deleted one app and edit options finally popped up. Thanks so much!!
you have to be in news feed not status updates to get the edit option at the bottom.
I have to check again in my facebook after several of weeks I didn’t go there. This message give great idea for me, so I care again bout my friends and make new friends. Keep make innovation man, tx btw