Recent updates on Facebook may have changed your default feed settings to show posts from, “Friends and pages you interactive with most“.  Basically if haven’t interacted with your friend or page recently, they won’t show up in your feed.

From what I understand, in the last week or so, facebook updated profile default settings for the facebook news feed.  This is the news feed that is displayed when you visit the facebook home page.  Previously, when you clicked ‘Most Recent‘ at the top-right, the news feeds from all your friends and pages would display.  Now your default settings could be set to: “Friends and pages you interactive with most“, which would eliminate many of your feeds.

After making this quick change, all my friends status updates and page subscriptions show.  What I think facebook means by ‘interacting with most‘, is people you often like, share, or comment on their status updates,  pictures, pages, events, etc.  If there’s no interaction then there’s no news feed from that friend or page.

How to change your Facebook News Feed Settings

Step 1: When logged into your account visit the Facebook Homepage.  That’s http://www.facebook.com and can always be reached by clicking on their logo.

Step 2: On the top right of your feed page you’ll see “Top News” and “Most Recent“, click the drop-down beside Most Recent and click, “Edit Options“.

Step 3: The “Edit Your News Feed Settings” window will pop up and just click on:  ‘All of Your Friends and Pages‘

Hopefully this will be helpful to those of you who follow my blog.  Other information and resources:

• News Feed Option Show Friends You Interact With Most – AllFacebook.com
• Facebook Changes News Feed Settings – InsideFacebook.com
• Facebook News Feed filtering can make friends vanish – WashingtonPost.com

Twitter in Plain English

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Stumbling around the net, I found a couple other articles about twitter. Rebecca Reisner writes in Business Week that Frank Eliason, a customer service manager for Comcast, is using twitter to aid in customer support and that other companies are following suit. You may also want to take a look at How Much Twitter is Too Much? Another one that you may find interesting is that Twitter just hired their first business development guru who’s been “… hired in part to handle the “crushing amount” of partnership proposals that Twitter receives.”.

It’s very easy to tie up a lot of time in social networking. If it’s set up and used wisely, it can also save time, maintain relationships and provide solutions while increasing productivity. Like everything else, these too will only be what we make of them.

I’m just learning twitter and if you want to follow, click here!

Facebook vs. Myspace vs. Twitter

According to mashable, Facebook closed out 2008 by passing Myspace by very small margins, however according to techcrunch, back in April of ’08 Facebook had more members.  Makes you wonder who’s accurate here.

Compete.com Graph for Facebook vs Myspace vs Twitter

The economy may be collapsing but social networking is on the rise.  As more and more people stay at home, more and more people are obviously using social media to connect with friends.  Notably, twitter is a reasonably new application that has enjoyed over 700% growth in the second half of 2008.  Although it’s nowhere near Facebook and Myspace, it will get closer when people start figuring out how to use it.

I don’t have a myspace account, wait, I do have a myspace account but it’s so cluttered up and spammy that I don’t use it so when facebook came out, it was like a breath of fresh air.  The video below signifies the difference in these two powerhouse social networks.

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Anyway, the video here produced by Cambridge House is very good and very informative and I highly recommend watching it and as far as actually seeing him talk in person… I’d recommend skipping it because he basically tries to say verbatim, the exact same thing in this video.

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Special thanks to The University of Akron for sponsoring this forum for the community. There are good number of speakers this year and I plan on attending them all. If you’d like to find out more about the forum and dates, please visit EJ Thomas Hall, University of Akron Forum Series. I will continue to write about each speaker during the forum and will try to find videos to be posted here.