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You are invisible to most of your friends on Facebook, and they are invisible to you. This is how you control the connections that appear on your “News Feed” page:

Facebook are being very dynamic in changing their appearance, for the benefit of their users. Some changes are noticeable, but some are very subtle. One change that was made, since Facebook changed their appearance dramatically, and not many people noticed, or could put their fingers on – was the visibility of their friends on their “News Feed” page.

Before making that change, the default was: seeing everyone whom you did not hide. That meant seeing news feeds from everyone you wanted to hear from. But now the default stands on seeing news feeds only from people you had close interaction with lately, or people that were of interest for you – ones you have visited their profile page.

It could be a good thing – having facebook filter your friends for you, especially when listing thousands of friends, and wanting to receive information only on a small group. But not knowing of that change, makes you miss information without even being aware of it.

Some people might have noticed the change, by seeing only few friends being active on their News Feed and commenting on their wall posts - always the same ones. It is obvious that the system shows the user only the people who are close to him, or interest him.

But there is a way of manually controlling that selection:

- Go to your “News Feed” page.

- Press “Most Recent”.

- At the bottom of the list, press “Edit Options”.

- Instead of “Friends and pages you interact with the most”, click on “All of your friends and pages”.

You will see there the list of friends and pages that you have hidden. All the rest will become visible to you in your “News Feed”.

Be aware of the fact that the same thing is going on with your friends! Some of them do not see your posts on their “News Feed” page, not because they don't want to, but because they had little interaction with you, if at all, for a period of time. They might be counting on their “News Feed” to show your posts, not knowing the system is filtering your profile out of it. So passing on this information is critical if you wish to be seen by all of your friends.

Organizations or users with too many connections, can put people into different groups, and choose which ones they would like to view.

At the end of the day, it is the user's choice whether to view all of his friends or only close connections. But knowing how to control the list – is always beneficial.