# I am baffled by Facebook **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275 "2021-07-25T21:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/1 "2021-07-25T21:08:22Z")
Timeline or News Feed or whatever. I posted something last night, and today I go to my home page and it is nowhere to be found. I scroll down for pages and pages and I see other posts, from a few weeks ago. I can see it if I go to my profile page ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/2 "2021-07-25T21:10:28Z")
If you posted it on your home page it should be at the top of your home page unless it was flagged and removed. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/3 "2021-07-25T21:19:03Z")
Should be. No flags, it was a link to a music clip I recorded with my brothers. Nothing remotely offensive ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/4 "2021-07-25T21:21:10Z")
Go figure. There are times that FB is completely mystifying to me too, I will admit. I am trying to pry myself out of its clutches. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/5 "2021-07-25T21:29:44Z")
Check your Facebook activity log (exact instructions in link). > **[Find your Facebook activity log | Facebook Help Center](https://www.facebook.com/help/289066827791446)** > > Your activity log lets you review and manage what you share on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/6 "2021-07-25T21:32:48Z")
Just to be clear we are talking about the same thing, your home page is the one you get to by clicking the icon of a house. If you post and no-one responds to it, your post moves (after some unknown but short period of time) to your personal page (or whatever they call it), not your feed, and you get there by clicking on your name and photo on the right side of your Facebook tool bar. At least that’s my experience. If someone posts a Like or a Comment, it should go back to your feed/home page, at least for a few hours or a day or so. All your Facebook friends can see it on their feeds, if they are following you, whether anyone has responded or not. I hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/7 "2021-07-25T21:44:38Z")
Your timeline or newsfeed or whatever shows you stuff based on Facebook’s algorithm. In my experience it shows my posts right after I post them, but after that they only show up there if someone interacts with them. If your post is still there when you go to your profile (where only posts by you or posts placed there by your friends if you’ve allowed it appear), Facebook hasn’t done anything to your post, the algorithm just doesn’t think you need to be reminded of its existence by putting it in your feed. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/8 "2021-07-25T21:46:19Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > If you post and no-one responds to it, your post moves (after some unknown but short period of time) to your personal page (or whatever they call it), not your feed, and you get there by clicking on your name and photo on the right side of your Facebook tool bar. There’s no move happening. It was always there on the personal page, and it was also **shown** in Mike’s feed and the feeds of his friends if Facebook thought it would be of interest to them. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/9 "2021-07-25T21:47:23Z")
Ok. So my first post was Friday night, about 7 pm. I got a like. I then edited it about 3 am Saturday. Now the whole thing is gone. As the great and underappreciated, should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Graham Parker once said, “I’m not crying for attention.” But I would like to be heard when I post. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/10 "2021-07-25T22:22:25Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Now the whole thing is gone. It’s not gone, it’s on your profile page. It’s not being shown on your feed because the algorithm doesn’t think it’s interesting enough _to you_ to be put in front of you. What you see is custom generated for your visit, and the post in question might be bumped in the algorithm scoring at a future date if someone interacts with it. You not seeing it doesn’t mean that others aren’t seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/11 "2021-07-25T23:23:02Z")
That makes sense, this happened once before. I could not see it, but my friend could. In other words, I am just not that interesting. It just lets me down, I am an intermediate guitar player and I have friends who are better than me. Would have liked to hear some comments, pro or con, do this or don’t do that ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/12 "2021-07-26T20:58:09Z")
I have a question that one of you wizards might be able to answer. I follow several groups. I click on “Groups” to see the new postings from group members. For the last month or so FB insists on throwing in shit from other groups that aren’t related or on my list. I can block that group but FB keeps throwing more crap. Any way to permanently block these forced unwanted suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/13 "2021-07-26T21:49:27Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > That makes sense, this happened once before. I could not see it, but my friend could. In other words, I am just not that interesting. It just lets me down, I am an intermediate guitar player and I have friends who are better than me. Would have liked to hear some comments, pro or con, do this or don’t do that Today, I took a picture with my phone, wrote a comment, and posted it…but it didn’t show up. So I posted the picture again and it did. Later, friends commented on the first picture (I could tell because I captioned them a little differently). The date stamp on it was like December 2001??? If you’re using an Android phone that may be the problem. Once in awhile I’ll text someone and it doesn’t appear in the conversation. I search for it and…Android dated it wrong and it put it in sequence accordingly. But it’s weird because the friends I text see it and respond etc. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-baffled-by-facebook/947275/14 "2021-07-27T15:17:19Z")
If you post to “Your Story”, the post is automatically deleted after 24 hours. Maybe that’s what happened? > **[Facebook News Feed vs Your Story- Best option for your Content - jonas Muthoni](https://jonasmuthoni.com/blog/facebook-news-feed-vs-your-story/)** > > Not like the earlier days where users only had one option which was posting a picture, video or what was on their mind to their news feed. Facebook has now come up with two options, helping users to share views and pictures for a shorter duration in...