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Has Your Facebook News Feed Slowed Down? Here’s Why…

Submitted by Ryan Spoon on February 12, 2010 – 10:45 amView Comments

Have you noticed that your Facebook news feed has come to crawl since the new homepage rolled out? Here’s why: in addition to various layout changes, Facebook seems to have altered the Facebook news feed settings for a significant portion of users.

Instead of showcasing updates from your entire network, Facebook has defaulted to showing just 250 friends. It is unclear how those 250 friends are determined – but it is clear, based on my personal usage, that interactions with posts (clicks, likes, comments, etc) have been dramatically affected.

To make sure that you are seeing posts from your entire network, scroll all the way down and click the “Edit Options” button:



You will then get a pop-up that will allow you to increase the “maximum number of friends shown in the live feed” above 250:

Two messages are actively passing through Facebook (just copy and paste into Google or public Facebook search to see!):

HERE’S THE DEAL w/ THE NEW FACEBOOK LIVE FEED: They are blocking all your friends’ news feeds except 250 that it chooses. TO UNDO: From HOME page, select MOST RECENT & scroll to the absolute bottom of page, click EDIT OPTIONS. Select NEWS FEED SETTINGS. Reset 250 to 5000 for FB’s max friend limit & your feed w…ill work right again! Pass it on!

And

FB is blocking all your friends’ NEWS FEEDS except 250 THEY CHOOSE. TO UNDO BLOCK: Go to your HOME page. Make sure your news feed shows LIVE FEED. Then scroll to the bottom, click “Edit Options”, You will then see your NEWS FEED SETTINGS. Change the 250 to 5000 for Facebook’s friend limit and your feed will work right again. COPY & PASTE THIS & PASS IT ON

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  • Chris
    Doesnt really explain why the site is slowing down....
  • oh so that's why facebook is slowing down.thanks for the tips then.
  • bob
    I love tyhis kind of spam where someone reveals some pieve of info unrelated to the headline.

    Clearly blocking all bt 250 of your friends would make your news feed faster.

    File this under the "Want a bigger dick?" spam folder
  • MC
    Why didn't Facebook inform everyone of this? They have really shot themselves in the foot and done their users a disservice with this one. I had noticed this for a while and had started to get a bit bored with Facebook because of the slow volume of updates, despite the fact that I have almost 600 FB friends. Having been on Twitter for some time now, I have been used to a high volume of interesting tweets and need enough info and news to keep me from getting bored. Feel like I've been robbed as a result of not knowing about this.
  • If you click on the view recommended friends you can see the ones they randomly selected, I went through and checked everyone I wanted to see and that improved it significantly.

    I already had the number raised to 5000 from the last change....
  • Oh for crying out loud... Not this again.

    This change was actually implemented when they introduced the News Feed and the Live Feed in the first place, ages ago.

    So yes, the 250 thing is true. However, it is *not* related to the recent Facebook home page changes.
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