The Facebook Fiasco!
It’s been two days since the “powers that be” at Facebook decided to mess with our heads again and shuffle around how they display posts and feeds.
People were crying foul!
How dare you mess with our way of life.
As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror!
Not to mention anger, frustration & sheer annoyance!
Well, according to sources, this is just the beginning!
Your precise Facebook is no more!
Well, not like it was.
Facebook wants to make it better!
Seriously? Screwing with people’s minds and making them cringe everytime they sign on to your service is making things better?
Or as John McClane says, “Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.”
My 19 year old daughter was so annoyed at the rapid changes Facebook was making she was contemplating deleting her account and just using her Google + account. Which incidently, she says was more like Facebook a few years ago, but with easier to use, cool features.
“No need to fear…Underdog is here!”
Sorry, just always wanted to find a place to use that phrase and there it was!
Well, for now I have a quick fix that will help solve some issues.
If you want your Facebook feed to go back to normal…here’s what you do.
First, go to your account settings (which is in the top right corner, with the little arrow pointing down, the arrow next to home…click it) and go to notifications. At the top right is a box that says email frequency. Uncheck that box and your feed will show all the posts again.
Then go to your home page and anything in the “Top Stories” click on the down arrow in the upper right and “unmark as top story” – now your newsfeed will be setup by timestamp rather than randomly picking “top stories.
It’s a start and will help bring some semblance of normalcy back…at least for a few weeks until Facebook rolls out more nerve whacking stuff. And, believe me, what that have planned will make Wednesday’s fiasco a walk in the park.
Rapid changes to your service can and will upset people and is the fastest way to lose customers. Facebook may have the ability to offset those defections of people who go elsewhere, but the average entrepreneur doesn’t. So, if you plan on making changes, do so in a manner that won’t upset the majority of your customers.
Until Next Time,
P.S. As changes occur on Facebook or other social sites, I will try to have up to date, easy to understand instructions or fast fixes that will have you back up and posting again.
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