Are your Facebook friends hiding from you?
Turns out the latest update to the Facebook news feeds sets a bunch of feeds that you may want to follow to “hidden” so that they don’t show up in your main feed. This includes both “friends” and “public profiles”, so it’s probably worth checking to see if you have some things hidden that I did not mean to!
How to check?
This is not self-evident, at least it wasn’t for me. The trick is that you first have to hide a news item, and then Facebook will (briefly) give you a link to edit your hidden items (i.e. “show hidden friends”):
This will open up a menu similar to this one where you can unhide (or “add to newsfeed”):
Personally, I was not only surprised at the number of “pages” or public profiles that were hidden, but also at just how many people were hidden in my menu. I think the old messaging of “show fewer updates” turned into “hidden” in the new layout.
And if you’re looking for more background on Facebook, maybe you should ask yourself, Why bother with Facebook Pages?
Laura 10:06 am on March 21, 2009 Permalink |
I figured out how to “Show Hidden Friends” (and I feel like a bit of an idiot that it took me this long): at the bottom of the news feed, in the box that you click for “Older Posts” there is a link that says “See Hidden Friends” – and ALLEGEDLY this offers the option to “Add to News Feed”; however, these links seem to be non-functioning at present.
So my Hidden Friends are doomed to remain Hidden until this is resolved.
Molly Duffy 8:18 pm on February 17, 2010 Permalink |
Hey Kids, I think my friend may have hid me. Is there any way I can tell if she hid me? let me know if anyone has anything?
Whitney 5:48 pm on March 31, 2009 Permalink |
Hopefully Laura reads this again. In order to get my friends off their hidden status (I noticed that the links are completely gone now) I had to hide someone and then click the “Show Hidden Friends” that popped up in the window… as shown in this article. It’s the only way you can change the list right now.
Sooo frustrating.
Mark Green 3:49 pm on April 1, 2009 Permalink |
Has anyone figured out how to hide/unhide friends out of the Facebook BlackBerry App? I’m forced to unfriend folks that annoy me with updates, but I’d rather just hide them!
Dustin 3:53 pm on April 1, 2009 Permalink |
I’m wondering how you’ve managed to use the Blackberry app at all. I think I *might* be stuck with an old version because I find it unusable for anything other than uploading photos. Status updates for example still force me to start with “dustin (is)…”
Dany 10:50 pm on April 10, 2009 Permalink |
Hey ,can anyone tell if his friends are hiding his news feeds?
Dustin 12:30 am on April 11, 2009 Permalink |
Interesting twist Dany…. I’m pretty sure there’s no way to tell.
Kamran 1:33 am on May 28, 2009 Permalink |
Thank you very much. it works. lol
VJ-ATL 7:47 pm on July 10, 2009 Permalink |
Well, its pretty simple to unhide your friends. I finally figured it out. Go to the end of the news feed page. At the bottom right corner, you will see “options” menu which will pop up a screen showing all the feeds or friends that are hidden from your news feed. You may then select to “Add to news feed” button to add them back so that you can see their posts.
sjunkie 10:07 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink |
damn.. i’m also looking for the option to hide a few (i’m lying a LOT) of overzealous updaters on my blackberry. I love em but damn it! its too much! stop with the updating!!! When will they fix this??!
kbryce 8:05 pm on October 17, 2009 Permalink |
I what to unhide the Farmville links on my facebook! Any ideas?? I hide it when I didn’t have time to have a farm but now have one and need to adopt 2 animals to get a ribbon but I need to do this through the entries! PLEASE HELP!
Dustin 2:05 am on October 20, 2009 Permalink |
I have no idea about Farmville. I’ve managed to successfully avoid that game!
Pat 1:36 pm on November 18, 2009 Permalink |
I accidentally hid farmville feed & i want it back if you get answer please tell me! Thank you ever so much
Jamey 12:22 pm on November 5, 2009 Permalink |
I’m with Dany… I’d like to know if I’m being hidden… There has to be a patch for that. Hackers, how about a hand?
Joel 7:04 am on November 23, 2009 Permalink |
I’d like to know if there is any way do discover if any of my friends are hiding me.
Michele Scheideman 11:24 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink |
I am no longer able to see my neighbor’s farmville posts either. HELP!
Madeeha 12:07 pm on December 20, 2009 Permalink |
Hi.. m v worried tht my bf iz cheating on me haz been avoiding me & he haz smehow managed 2 appear offline 2 me on fb chat while he still remainz online 4 da rest of his friendz.. plz plz plz help me out n tel me if thr iz sme way tht i can find out if he iz appearing offline 2 me only….
Dustin 1:38 pm on December 20, 2009 Permalink |
Madeeha, If there’s a way to hide your status to only one person, I wouldn’t no how to do that. Sorry I’m not gonna be much help.
Madeeha 11:21 pm on December 20, 2009 Permalink |
Thankyou Dustin 4 ur trying 2 help… but m pretty sure tht u can create certain friend lists n appear offline 2 thm only while appearing online 2 the rest of the frndz… PLz GUYZ N GALZ…. NEED HELP HERE!!! m sure thr must sme way of finding out… msn yahoo n gtawk all hv been covered m sure thr must b a hacker whu haz found out 4 fb also……… DESPERATELY HELP NEEDED!!!!!!
Donna 5:19 pm on December 21, 2009 Permalink |
My son travels with his job and used to mention his whereabouts on facebook almost daily . Also another son would post and 2 daughter-in-laws.. No I feel like it’s all hidden from me. Nothing new has shown up in weeks. Is there a way to view those hidden files w/o contacted them?
Dustin 12:45 pm on February 14, 2010 Permalink |
As far as I know, if someone hides stuff from you, there’s really no way to see it as long as you’re logged in as yourself.