Can't Edit Audience in Boosted Facebook Post

May 8, 2018 1:48 PM

I am a new, wary user of Facebook. Boosted posts have been working fine until recently. Now, for some reasons, I can't change a former set of locations and audience preferences before boosting the post. Facebook is calling those formerly used preferences "default" when I never intended it to be a default.

When I click "Edit Audience", another screen overlays that lets me make all of the changes I want. But there is no save button, only an X or a close button. When I click either, the "default" preference remain and there is no way to save what I tried to change. What has happened?

posted by CollectiveMind to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

I don’t have an answer, but just want to confirm that this has happened to me as well, so it’s not just you.
posted by MountainDaisy at 5:31 PM on May 8, 2018

Response by poster: For as many people as are on FB, and for all of the money it makes from boosted posts, I don't understand why there aren't more commenters. What did we do to offend the almighty Zuck?
posted by CollectiveMind at 10:22 AM on May 9, 2018

I don't boost fb posts, but I will say that every single time a screen appears to have no/no clickable way to make it "go", it's been either AdBlock Plus or Ghostery that is responsible. You might try temporarily turning off your ad blockers/extensions.
posted by donnagirl at 1:59 PM on May 9, 2018

Response by poster: So AdBlock Plus or Ghostery at some point, prevents me from accessing Edit Audience until I at least temporarily unblock ad blockers and extensions?
posted by CollectiveMind at 3:11 PM on May 9, 2018

I don't know. I don't use that feature. Did you try it?
posted by donnagirl at 6:33 PM on May 9, 2018 [1 favorite]