Facebook has made a bunch of changes and you’re probably noticing that you’re no longer seeing updates from your favorite people, blogs, or Facebook pages. So here is my Facebook Fix to make sure that you see what you want to see on Facebook and never miss an important status or update again!
I have done a ton of research and I don’t have an automated solution for you, but I do have a great Facebook Fix! I actually think it’s a better solution because now you can control what you see on your Facebook Wall {news feed} and your favorite people and blogs will no longer be invisible.
Ready for my pictured tutorial?!? Yep, that’s right I made screen shots to personally walk you through the process. I promise it’s easier than it looks. {wink}
Never Miss A Friend Status or Blog Update Again!
The solution to being able to get rid of all the junk people post that you don’t want to see but make sure you don’t miss anything important… is Facebook Lists.
Think of these lists as an easy way to organize everyone according to your real-life connections. So you can have lists with all different kinds of categories like:
- Family
- Close Friends
- Dallas {your town}
- College Friends
- etc.
You get the idea, right? This way you can easily stay in touch with the people in your real life ~ on your terms! For instance, your “Close Friends” list you’re going to read every day where as your “College Friends” you might read once week/month.
1. Create a Facebook List
Creating your own lists on Facebook is really easy ~ so don’t over think it. For today’s example, I’m creating a list called “My Favorites” and it’s basically all of my favorite people and Facebook pages that I like to read every day.
- Start on your News Feed Wall {which is not your profile, but your wall where you read the status updates from your friends/family.}
- On that page, you will now see LISTS. {see 1st image}
- If you hover your mouse over LISTS then you will see MORE, click MORE.
- Use one of the default lists Facebook gives you or to create your own, click the “Create a List” button on the top right. {see above image}
2. Name Your List
Like I said, you can choose any of the default lists they Facebook has created for you OR you can name one of your own. Choose any name or phrase that you want. I chose to name mine “My Favorites“.  Basically, this is the list of my favorite people, blogs, and Facebook pages of companies I want to make sure I read everyday. This way I can make sure that I don’t miss or ignore anything or anyone who is important in my life.
3. Add Friends or Pages
Now we finally get to have some fun! Click on Add Friends to choose your friends, family, or Facebook pages to to into this specific list. Keep in mind that you can have as many lists as you want. So you can have “The A-Team” list for the coolest people you know but only want to read once a week. Or a “Daily Read” of people, blogs, and companies who’s news you can’t live without. Sky’s the limit on how many lists you can create.
Add Tip Junkie To Your List
The next pop up screen will default to your “FRIENDS” but if you want to add Tip Junkie to any of your lists. {wink wink} Then you’ll need to change the little box on the upper left to “PAGES“. If you only have a few pages that you have liked, then you might see it immediately. However, I follow hundreds… so I just typed “Tip Junkie” into the search box and it popped right up! Click the image and then press DONE. And well you’re done.
Tip: You can add/remove as many friends or pages at a time that you want. Click to add a check-mark will show up by their name or un-check to remove. So click as many as you want on your list and then click DONE.
Add/Remove People From Your List
Now that you have Tip Junkie on your list your might be wondering how to add your other daily reads. {Like how presumptuous I am that you’re going to add Tip Junkie. HA!} It’s really easy to add or remove people and Facebook Pages to any of your lists.
- Click on your list from the left sidebar. This is “My Favorites” list.
- Then look over to the right and click on “Manage List”.
- Click on Add/Remove Friends.
You can click as many people to add onto your list as you’d like. Then click DONE when you’re finished.
4. How To Add Your List To The Top!
Now that you have made your list of the blogs, family, and friends status updates that you want to read daily. The last step is to make sure that you don’t forget to actually CLICK ON YOUR LIST to read it, right! {snicker} You may be laughing at me, but I have forgotten.
I promise it’s so easy and you’ll be glad you did this last little step.Â
- Click on the little blue pen icon on the left of your LIST NAME. My list name was “My Favorites”.
- Click on “Add to Favorites” and voila!
Your list will pop right up to the top of your sidebar right underneath your darling picture.
This is what “My Favorites” list now looks like! The perk is that now I have complete control over what I see on my wall and I’ll never miss an important announcement from a friend or family member or a great idea from Tip Junkie. {squeal}
That’s it! Please feel free to ask any questions that you might have. I really want to thank all of you for beings so supportive of Tip Junkie and I hope this has helped to make Facebook more fun and easier for you to connect with the important people in your life.
I’d love hear from you, simply leave a comment here on this post or over on the Tip Junkie Facebook page. Tip Junkie’s ROCK! {{knuckle bumps}}
Creating Memories that Endure,
Laurie
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darn, that looks a lot more time consuming but I guess it’s something I have to make time for. I’m definitely losing posts from people like my college friends who are like my best friends again now that we’ve reconnected and I hate missing posts from them because FB arbitrarily things I should! Thanks for instructions. And I’ve been missing your posts too. I think I’ve been getting 1 a day and sometimes none. They color up my newsfeed very nicely with something creative throughout the day.
I did the same thing the week everything changed. I got the change a little earlier than the rest of my family and friends. I guess I was a test? Anyway, I made lists. Family, Friends, Work, Alumni friends, My children’s friends with their parents as another list and the big one was Blogs I follow. I also made another list for companies/products I like. I’ve made a BUNCH of other labels and its all broken down and I can go through it easily and not miss a thing. Its awesome!
Thanks for making the tutorial because I can now refer it to friends/family,etc that give a bewildered look when I try to tell them, just make labeled lists for your feeds…
I already know how to do all this but no where do my favorite pages pop up as an options to put in my list. Only my friends show up. Is there a trick to finding my “favorites”. I am seeing yours and the others about every other day.
she shows it just under step 3 – see the red arrow that points just under the blue areaheading, and it reads pages – it’s a drop down menu where you can choose between friends or pages.. click there!
I know that part but none of my pages show up anywhere. I don’t even get the “pages” listed in the drop down and when I type in Tip Junkie…nothing. It’s like all of my Liked Pages have totally disappeared but I know they haven’t because about every 4th day I will receive an update. It is so frustrating!
Thanks Laurie for the tutorial, I have been scratching my head at Facebook trying to figure out this new ‘list’ feature and how or why I should use it! It will take a while to get it set up but once done you’ll be able to see the feeds from people and pages that you actually want to see! Great tut, thanks so much! Deb
So glad I actually saw this. I’ve been so frustrated about not being able to find my fav blog updates. Thank you so much for showing us how to do this!!!
thanks for sharing….I was about done with facebook because I couldn’t see what I really wanted too! Thanks!
Or you could just get BetterFacebook extension and then in the options check the “force chronological order” check box and the “hide top story triangles” Works on Firefox & Chrome.. much faster
Laurie
Pamala – Dude that is cool. I’m off to check it out!
Laurie {Tip Junkie}
Where is the Better Facebook extension?
where do i find this, i use firefox? but nothing comes up in searching
Thank you SO much for putting this together. I haven’t had the time to do the research and feel like I’ve been missing out on quite a bit since these changes took place. I’m on it!
Great tutorial Laurie, I’ve been meaning to create lists for my different types of friends on facebook but haven’t got round to it. This is the kick start I needed!
Thanks for a great post – one question – am I right that you can only create lists for your personal profiles and not for pages? I’m having the same problem with my page, and wish I could create lists here to. Wondering if I’m missing something… thanks again
thanks! great tip!
Oh yay! I feel like I’ve been missing so much.
This is great!
Thank you very much.
Worked like a charm!!! Thank you sooo much. It did take me a couple trys to get it right but I am soo glad I kept at it. Now I feel more in control by being able to see what I want to see not what fb wants me to see!!!
Now I want to share it (this page) with my fb friends – how can I do that?
I followed all these steps, have you on my Favorite’s list, and yet I still only receive about 25% of your posts, Queen Tip Junkie. There has to be something else. I double-check a couple other “fav’s” and I’m receiving all of their posts into that list. So frustrating.
I have the same problem Susie. I know that all of the pages I follow have been added to my list, however only some of their posts actually make it into my list. It seems to be anything that is being fed into facbook from a blog that I’m missing, while anything that is posted directly to someones wall makes it. It is so frusterating, because everyone keeps telling me to make a list,and I have, but it still doesn’t pick up everything for me.
I even made a list with just Tip Junkie in it, and I’d say only a fourth of her posts/links showed up on it. I’m stumped.
Fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing this!! I am posting a link on my wall
this was a very helpful post! i’ve really disliked facebook since the big change, but i’m hoping this will help!
thanks!
Thanks so much! What a big help!
Thanks for the instructions, Laurie. I had done this awhile ago, but didn’t like the results. You unraveled the “Pages” mystery option for me. I was using premade lists and you can’t add pages to them, so I was flipping back and forth and making myself crazy.
Thanks! I was starting to feel like there was no catching up on FB anymore. Now I can see who’s truly important at a glance without sifting through Twittered trivia feeds that clutter my wall.
Thank you!! I went to every one of my friends and family and subscribed to them and I STILL don’t get their updates. Maybe this will finally do the trick!! =)
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