I read and enjoy a couple of groups on facebook. For the last week or so, when I see a good posting with lots of comments, I only see the first couple. Clicking on “view previous replies” or even “view reply” to a post does not work. BUT, this problem only appears when I’m using the “Groups” view. It’s not earth shattering, just a PITA. This is on a PC, not a handheld. Tried the usual rebooting, re-signing in, etc. Any ideas for a puzzled old phart?
It’s a Facebook error. Same thing happens to me.
They can and do update their code on a whim, without anyone knowing otherwise. Eventually they will fix it.
Here’s another stupid FB question. How do you “un-friend” somebody? Recently, I accepted a couple of friend requests, and then regretted them. Both these guys, on the first day, tried to talk me into contacting “agents” of shady-looking things that would get me $150,000. One was H.H.S., but with a non- .gov address. The other was PHC. I didn’t bite on either one, but I feel suckered just for accepting their friend requests.
Fecebook is bristling with ways to make friends, but I can’t find the un-friend button
Without knowing if you’re on a PC/Apple/Android/iPhone etc, in general, go to your friend list and you should find an option there. Possibly in the form of a menu button next to each person that gives you options for unfriend, unfollow etc.
This might depend on what exactly the problem is. I know sometimes I’ll click ‘see all replies’ and it’ll show me one or two replies with a button to ‘see more replies’. Never figured out that one, I can only guess it’s just some sloppy programming.
However there’s also cases where you can’t see some of the replies due to privacy settings. Facebook might still give you the ‘see more replies’ option, even if it’s not going to let you. Since you can (almost) always see replies from friends and the restrictions are usually meant to make your post viewable to either ‘only friends’ or ‘only friends of friends’, that’s going to happen a lot more often in group posts where non-friends, that have restricted their posting, are posting.
Does that make any sense?
Click on their name to go to their home page. To the right of their name will be a blue button that says “Friend”. Click on it, and you’ll get the option to Unfollow or Unfriend.
I’m on a PC. I just went to FB, scrolled down to one of the scoundrels, but before I could do anything, the contacts list shrank down to just a few. How do I get the full list to stay?
Okay, I just went back to FB, went to Search Facebook, upper left corner, and put in the name of one of the bastards. Then I went to the 3 dots to the right of the Friends blue box. From there, I was able to click on Block. I guess this disconnects me from him, but I don’t know if he’s still on my Friends List.
Fecebook is a weird thing.
Block means just that. The person is still your friend. They just can’t see your posts.
AFAIK, block also unfriends them. Block means they will see no mention of you on FB.
Blocking isn’t the same as unfriending because you can unilaterally unblock someone, but if you unfriend them, they have to approve your friend request if you want to refriend them.
(Emphasis mine.)
If this is a typo, it’s glorious. Feces is about what it is, half the time.
Blocking not only unfriends them, but the two of you essentially don’t exist to each other anymore. If you search for him, you won’t find him. If he comments on a friend’s post, you won’t see it. I believe it won’t even show you pictures your friends post if he’s tagged in them.
Plus, it’s exactly the same from his side as well.
Unfollowing, however, keeps you as friends, you just won’t see anything they post unless you go to their profile.
Thanks for your help, folks. My spelling of Fecebook was intentional, BTW.
More Facebook weirdness (or, more likely, sinisterness): just today I’ve noticed on the FB app that I’ll have dozens of ads (I counted 34) in the form of “suggested for you” posts or “sponsored” posts in a row before I get to a post from a friend / page / group that I actually follow.
Then another dozen or three before a post that isn’t an ad.
Rinse and repeat. It used be a 3/1 ratio of posts from friends/pages/groups to ad ratio. Now its more like 1/30.
If this is the future of Facebook than I’m out. A shame, because I use messenger a lot.
Anyone else seeing this?
No, you would appear to be having a glitch.
Checking this morning it’s also doing the same thing when I open FB on my mobile browser (Chrome). So its glitchiness is apparently not limited to the app.
Facebook might be showing only the “Most relevant” comments, or those of your friends only. If you want to see “All comments” (including possible spam?) there’s a way to select that. It’s not super obvious, but I usually do figure out how to select that option for a post. I don’t think that setting holds for other posts, you need to select each time. In fact, as I am looking at a FB post right now, it’s not showing me those options, so maybe that part of FB is temporarily messed up, or the option to view all has been removed.
Did you recently buy something frivolous and expensive putting you in to some new ad demographic for fancy people with too much money? Admit it, you recently got a robotic espresso machine that also cleans floors.
Well I must confess that QtM’s recent mention of teledildonics piqued my curiosity and led me down a Google rabbit hole, and one thing kind of led to another… shame, really. I had originally planned to put that tax refund toward a new heat pump. Oh well.
Actually I’ve not made any online purchases outside of Amazon lately and I tend to do lot of my browsing in incognito mode for this very reason. It’s still acting wonky I realized today I’ve spent almost no time on Facebook in the last two or three days for this very reason: it’s practically nothing but ads for me now.