There may be times when your important messages from certain friends don’t appear on your Facebook timeline, when you actually want to see these types of posts. Why is that and can you do something about it? We explain it in this article.
Why don’t you see certain Facebook updates?
Many people think there is something wrong with their Facebook account when they find that they are routinely missing updates from friends and acquaintances. In reality, this is not the case. The reality is that most people have so many friends and follow so many pages that it wouldn’t be feasible if all those updates were shown on your timeline.
Facebook even indicated in an interview a while ago that the number of updates would be more than 1,500 per day. If you thought you were missing posts now, consider a timeline with 1,500 posts. For that reason, Facebook filters the messages. This is done on the basis of all kinds of calculations, such as what your relationship with someone is, how often you have contact with that person via Facebook, how often you respond and so on.
You can imagine that this can lead to a vicious cycle. If you don’t see a person, you will be less in contact with them, and that person will drop further on Facebook’s priority list. Fortunately, you can do something about that.
Determine yourself which updates you see
You have absolutely no influence on the algorithms that Facebook uses to determine which updates you see and which you don’t. However, you can cause a person to suddenly meet the criteria that Facebook applies to someone whose updates are shown.
You do this by clicking on the header in Facebook Friends in the left pane (this can be pretty low if you have a lot of pages and groups). Then click on the list Good friends and then at the top right Manage list / Edit list. Then you simply add the people you prefer to see the updates from now on. By adding them to the Close Friends list, Facebook knows these are people you’d like updates to on your timeline and will be served out from now on.
