Ok I know this is pathetic, but when a friend doesn’t like your posts but likes others

I had a 'friend' like this. Well, actually she's the most toxic person I know.
She asked me why I never liked any of her posts on Instagram. I answered because I didn't like her posts therefore I'm not going to like it.
She belittled me for years and only just come to the realisation of how she was (stupid I know). I just can't stand her anymore. Of course she doesn't like the fact I also stand up to her now and the fact I don't like her posts.

Imagine being so immature and unsecured you would be dropping a friend because they don't like your posts on facebook (which is as number of us pointed out most likely due to algorithm) while they still text with you and are friends irl
I had some sympathy, but the way you are going is indeed needy and pathetic.

I am now seeing what people mean by sm being bad...

Have you thought about asking her directly?

I have around 300 friends on Facebook - I pretty much only see posts from the same three people. The rest of my feed is made of ads and pages I’m following.

I have to ask - how old are you OP? This post shows an over reliance on the validation of others, you might benefit from a social media break.

A friend who was seriously depressed a few years back said later (after he'd got to the point of nearly doing something permanent) that his final trigger was when, at his lowest, not one person on FB had acknowledged his 'trying to sound OKish but reach out' posts whilst they had responded to other people's posts - the reason was that FB had dropped him off our feeds, so we didn't see his posts asking if anybody fancied meeting up for a chat or that he was bored/not seen anybody for weeks/needed some human interaction beyond the bloke in the corner shop.

Don't use SM to gauge how much somebody likes or cares about you. It's the most harmful thing about the entire phenomenon.

Your friend keeps in contact with you directly - so she cares. She isn't only prompted to do so when something pops up in her feed and it isn't pushed out by a thousand adverts for a change.

I know a few people who never like others posts - they're also the biggest bitches - I imagine it looks two faced to those you've been gossiping with to then be seen to like the persons posts. I admit to having not liked someones post (despite generally liking the person) for this reason when I've just had a bit of a bitch with a mutual friend about the type of things the person shares. Could your friend be talking about you behind your back? She might really like you but feel grated by something specific that you do.

But instead you’re going to unfollow her? That’s just creating drama where there is literally no drama. Facebook does not equal real life. The likes on your post isn’t real validation.

She has unfollowed you.
Leave social media, it is not good for you.

I know people like that & class them as “frenemies” I end up putting them on restricted so they can’t snoop anymore, but that’s me! A friend would like at least one of your posts at some point. In the past when you have had a meet up how does she make you feel afterwards? Has there been any sense of animosity? If I don’t see a friends posts for a while - I go onto their page just in case I may have missed something...
I highly doubt she hasn’t seen at least one of your posts.

Loads of times I've idly clicked onto a Facebook friend I've not seen anything from in ages then realised they have posted dozens of things I would have reacted to, but that never appeared on my newsfeed. It's not you, it's the algorithm.

Watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix. Interesting film.

I deleted the app from all my devices and turned off all notifications about a fortnight ago and I feel much better for it. I've gone from spending about an hour a day on FB to checking it for 5 minutes every couple of days I thought I'd use this precious extra time to read, clean or exercise but in reality I've just spent longer on Mumsnet.

Sounds like you might also benefit from a break

It's the algorithm. I actively searched and clicked on a friend's profile the other day because I wanted to check the date for something, and I couldn't believed all the posts I hadn't seen. Yet she's a good friend so I want to see her stuff, but FB bombards me with all the random crap of the day otherwise!

I have a friend who posts loads of tedious kids, Halloween, school homework, blah, blah, blah stuff on Facebook. As I am non confrontational I passively aggressively like and comment on similar posts that aren't hers in the hope that she gets the message.

I think she also posts on MN so if she puts up a whiny post I'll reply with something sarcastic

I'm so glad I don't even know what this means.

My mum is one of my top FB friends and I message her in FB messenger all the time and always comment on her posts but for some reason I don't always see her posts. So it could well be a F B glitch.