# My facebook news feed is apparently dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-facebook-news-feed-is-apparently-dead/817138>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 2, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-facebook-news-feed-is-apparently-dead/817138 "2018-07-02T03:54:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-facebook-news-feed-is-apparently-dead/817138/21 "2018-10-05T02:33:42Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I’m having the same issue as the OP. I don’t have a ton of FB friends, but there is usually some sort of feed going on. Lately it’s been one or two and then a rather rude message along the lines of “If you want to see more on your timeline, get more friends.”

This is where my Facebook is at now, starting just today. Googling I see that people have been having this problem since January, and a similar problem since 2012 or such. I can keep clicking Refresh to experiment: there’s one ten days-old post it always shows, it will show zero or one other post, picked from a small set; then the obnoxious message. There have been several other posts since then which it does not show. (I can see them by clicking to Friends’ Timelines, one by one.)

I get the same bug with two different browsers. I don’t use smart-phone but maybe I’ll borrow my wife’s and try it there.

Some of the posters on Facebook’s question/complaint board suggest (sarcastically?) this is a feature, not a big — they don’t want to look at Newsfeed posts. I tend to agree: Even when not completely broken, Facebook ignores my “Show this Friend First” clicks, and presents lots of political messages I never asked for.)

So even before this bug I was not entirely happy with my Newsfeed experience, nor Facebook in general. I would have deleted my Facebook account long ago, except that it seems to be mandatory: My wife will say “So-and-so posted an hour ago, and you still haven’t clicked Like? What’s wrong with you?” Now I have an excuse: “Sorry; Newsfeed is broken.”

(\* — If in the Pit I would replace “not entirely happy with Facebook” with “detest every single feature of Facebook with passion.”)

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