When you log into Facebook, the first place you’re taken is your News Feed (or Home tab). This is where you see updates from your friends and the pages you have “liked”. But have you noticed that you’re only getting news from the same small number of people lately?
It doesn’t mean all your other Facebook friends have gone off line. Facebook has added a way to control your newsfeed. You can see the updates from all your friends, or you can set the feed to only show the friends and pages you interact most with.
For many people, if not most, their setting was defaulted to “Friends and pages you interact most with”.
If this had happened to you, scroll down to the bottom of your News Feed and click the “edit options button” on the bottom right of the page.
Next, click the button and choose “All your friends and pages”. You’ll start receiving updates from everyone again.
Getting back on your friends’ newsfeeds
But this is not the end. If you’re using Facebook for networking and marketing, many of your friends (or fans of your Facebook page) will no longer be seeing your updates because they haven’t changed their settings back.
In order to show up on your friends’ news feeds you’ll need to start actively interacting with them. You can’t just passively use Facebook to post links, comments or photos. Many of your followers won’t see them. You need to become one of the “Friends and pages you interact most with”.
How do you do this? By interacting with them. When you see a post or update in your newsfeed, go to their wall and reply. Check in with people and ask what’s new. Have conversations. Build relationships one-on-one.
Yes, this is more time consuming, but it’s what I’ve been telling you what to do all along. One-on-one interaction with people is the best way to build relationships. And by building a relationship with people you’re giving them time to get to know, like and trust you. And once they’ve reached the trust phase, when they’re ready to buy what you sell, you’ll move to the top of the list.
Happy networking.
Andrea J. Stenberg
