As if millions of voices were suddenly silenced
March 11, 2012 12:57 PM   Subscribe

How can I get all recent posts by others on a Facebook timeline page to appear inline, in chronological order, in the timeline instead of in a separate box?

A new update to Facebook pages for organizations has removed all the non-admin posts from appearing in the chronology where they are visible to all visitors and has put them in a separate box titled "Recent Posts by Others" in the second column.

Almost nobody is clicking on the "Recent Posts by Others" and far fewer fans are making posts and far fewer are leaving comments. It's a community disaster.

This has turned out to be a conversation killer. It's destroyed the interaction between page followers. It assumes that our organization is one of those idiotic corporations that wants only its own messages to be read. I've received email from a ticked off follower of the page who wanted to know why her post wasn't appearing -- yet it was there, just difficult to notice in that stupid "Recent Posts by Others" box.

What we'd like is for posts of all followers to the page to automatically appear in the timeline by default for all viewers on first viewing the page and not only in the "Recent Posts by Others" box.

Any suggestions? Is there a setting I'm missing?
posted by Mo Nickels to Computers & Internet (3 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
You could try and post this to their bug report page. Its obviously not a bug in the traditional sense, but it might get the attention of someone at the FB headquarters. I tried poking around and couldnt find a "design suggestion" forum.
posted by KeSetAffinityThread at 2:11 PM on March 11, 2012


You're hardly alone. Facebook only seems to listen if a metric ass-ton of people push back, alas.
posted by dhartung at 5:50 PM on March 11, 2012


Response by poster: In case others come across this, there is also a small discussion about it in the Facebook community forums.
posted by Mo Nickels at 10:25 AM on March 12, 2012


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