That FB thing you do to unlock all your 'friends'...

[Miljah]

Anyone else completely failing to get it to work?

So many friends who I trust rave about it, but my tap-and-hold 'anywhere on this post' to 'copy'- gives me 'copy URL' as my only option: then 'go to your page' - what page? And 'paste', and suddenly 'all your FB friends will be available to you!' Apparently.

My 'page' is presumably 'My Story' but holding down on that doesn't give me any 'paste' option!

Anyone know about this?

I've never heard of this but it sounds interesting...

It's junk as far as I know. You copy and paste a status to enable you to see posts from all of your friends, supposedly.

It doesn’t work because it’s a load of crap, sorry

Do you mean this:

Thanks for the tips to bypass FB...it WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed. I’m seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years. Here’s how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed. Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. Therefore, Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste. This will bypass the system. Hi new and old friends!

It's not actually true, you know.

ppl must be seeing something different, though, to keep claiming this.

Seems like on phone app, your feed can ONLY be "top" stories. No 'most recent' option exists. Most recent is an option on laptop/website.

I don't have locked up friends 🤔

It's bullsh!t!

Is this going around again?

They are not seeing anything different they are just doing as the spoof post tells them to! It's really funny that lots of my intelligent friends are falling for this! 🤣

Total hoax
Utter bunkum
Complete nonsense
Etc
Etc

HOW would it work though??

WHY would one of the most sophisticated computer algorithms ever created he fooled by him copying and pasting something?

And also, I can see most recent on my phone app - you click on the three lines bit and select “most recent”...

Most recent does still exist, it’s an option on the menu (three lines, bottom right)

This is just a status that you post so that other people post the same. It’s a chain letter.

Look at it logically. Apparently the process for 'unlocking' your friends is to copy that post, paste it into your status update box, and then post it. It doesn't make sense. You are basically posting a status update which says 'this really works' even though until you actually hit post, and see the results, you can't possibly know if it works. It's just spam, or a good way to spot the people who you might want to cull off your friends list. Also Facebook's algorithms are a lot more complex than just showing you the same 25 friends over and over again. If that was the case, they would have been outstripped by a competitor with better programmers years ago.

When I'm on laptop/pc, I often have many tabs open at once. In fact I often have various browser windows, each containing multiple tabs.

There's an interesting fact about me

Yep. This is rubbish and it doesn't work. The reason it appears your friends are raving about it and sharing is either...

It raves about it working in the status that you 'need' to copy. So it's not actually them, it's part of the status.

Or

They believe it's worked for them even though it hasn't (because it's bullshit) and are seeing things that are not there.

Regarding people I've unfollowed I have no wish to re-activate their crap. I won't unfriend or block them.

Even most recent is iffy.
Mine just keeps bumping commented posts up the list. It was good when it was actually in chronological order, and they weren't dodgy .

It shows as most recent every time it has new activity I think. So new comments will put something back at the top. It’s shite I agree, I’m off FB for 2019z

Anything that says hold your finger down and copy and paste to your profile .,,,to reveal a unicorn and save the world

Is fucking shite 😬

Read this:

uokhun.uk/2019/01/02/facebook-confirms-you-can-only-see-25-friends-posts-are-100-legitimate/

It doesn't work, I just don't understand why so many of my sensible friends have pasted it as their statuses (people who don't usually fall for this crap)

How naive are some people!!

@lljkk Most recent is indeed possible in the app; look at the left hand menu and you’ll see the option to do so.

Oh my days 🙈

I don't use the app, was trying to help someone else. We couldn't find any way to change the setting on her phone & then I found threads online that said it wasn't possible (but at least one thread was dated 5 yrs ago).

Not my problem but glad there's a solution, nowadays.