Facebook: It's complicated

With news that it's planning to integrate music subscriptions and media channels emerging this week, Facebook is looking to be the place where you spend most of your time. It's even brought in it's own cash “virtual currency credits” - which all games developers have to encorporate. By continuing to pile on the new features it's hoping to stay ahead of the crowd, but this can be a risky strategy - especially when privacy or intellectual property rights are affected.

Recently it's changed it's News Feed, so that by default, you can only see updates from people with whom you've recently interacted. It did not however let us know, or give us the option to stay with the old setting.

If you'd like to change this, click on 'Account', then 'Edit friends' then at the top left, click "All Friends." Even if you click on "most recent" on your news feed, you need to click on it, go down the menu to "edit options" then change "Friends you interact with most" to "all friends". You also may need to toggle your news page by clicking on 'most recent' rather than 'top news' - and toggle again if it's too much!

Thank you, David Vannen for this discovery. and do let your friends know!

p.s. There are many apps which can enhance - or impede Facebook's operations - I've been using Better Facebook for a while and it's got some very useful features..