Comments | coffee_lifeform: Gah.

coffee_lifeform

Gah.

Jan 16, 2011 23:23

I have only just noticed on Facebook that an old BG work colleague I'm very fond of is pregnant. She's been posting about it almost constantly throughout her pregnancy, and has four weeks to go. :/ I felt a bit of an idiot posting on her wall going "Oh, you're pregnant, congrats!" eight months after the fact, but I hadn't seen any of her previous ( Read more... )

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sasori January 17 2011, 00:48:32 UTC

I think it has more to do with the algorythms that ClusterBook uses to decide what it shows on your page than how many friends you have (it's not a straght up friends page like dear old LJ, but then it can't be any more, it's too big. Go through and click 'don't show' on things till you see what you want. Or cut down to 10 friends. I think with 10, you're likely to see all their activity. ;)

mr_orgue January 17 2011, 00:58:52 UTC

Your Facebook newsfeed is set to Most Recent, right? Beside "Most Recent" is a dropdown arrow - you can edit options. Make sure this is set to "All my friends", not "Friends I interact with most".

Two months ago this was a numerical setting, defaulting to about 200 friends - your news feed ignored any over that. I changed this number and my Most Recent feed shifted radically. More info here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-18/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets/full/

spacelem January 17 2011, 10:35:41 UTC

Thanks, I changed this setting and suddenly noticed a friend had just got engaged. I might have missed that!

catelogue January 17 2011, 02:20:14 UTC

Coulda been worse. What if you'd said that and she wasn't pregnant?

coffee_lifeform January 17 2011, 04:26:28 UTC

True that, yeah...

marrog January 17 2011, 09:41:21 UTC

You were surprised? She's my ex!

Just kidding, heh. Bex would never post to Facebook.

I recently cut 50 people on LJ and only had to put two back (and actually those two people hadn't been on beforehand but asked on my 'comment if you want back' post). So substantive culls can be done.

blearyboy January 17 2011, 09:58:03 UTC

Yes, two essential tips are to make sure you're on Most Recent rather than Top News (or whatever those options are called) and also use the Hide button on pretty much every app that posts to the News feed.

I don't know what the "optimal" number of friends is. I culled about 30-40 people recently (mostly BG people, actually). The criteria I used were:

1) Have I spoken to this person recently?
2) Would I feel comfortable speaking to this person in the future?