Comments on: Bug Alert: Hiding/Unhiding Friends in Facebook Using Internet Explorer

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:48:04 +0000

To unhide applications, make sure you're on the Top News view of your news feed and scroll to the bottom of the page. Click the Edit Options link at the right-hand side of the posts column. A window should pop up that has tabs for Friends, Pages, and Applications (if you have at least one of each category hidden). The Applications tab will list all the ones you've hidden with buttons to add them back to your news feed.

Note that if you're on the Most Recent view and click the Edit Options link, you'll get a different type of window that won't let you unhide applications -- just friends and pages.

If the above doesn't work, check out this post for some other things to try:

http://www.techforluddites.com/2009/04/the-latest-on-how-to-unhide-friends-on-facebook.html

By: christine

christine — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:17:43 +0000

hi there, i am trying to figure out how to unhide some of the applications that i hid from my newsfeeds, becasue i was tired of hearing about farmville and zoo world and games like that. now that i want to play zoo world. i cant get anything from my friends cause its not showig up. I have checked in the applications settings , and nothing is actually blocked, but i still wont come up in news feeds, any thoughts.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:12:44 +0000

I agree it's really frustrating, Tom. I'm surprised you don't have an Older Posts option. Does that mean you only see one page full of posts on your home page? That's also a problem.

By: Tom G

Tom G — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:29:06 +0000

Running Firefox in Linux Suse, no edit nor Older Posts options. Facebook drives me nuts and seriously considering deleting my account.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:30:26 +0000

Thanks Rosanne and AF. I'm glad the info was able to help you. FYI, I can see in my web stats that unhiding friends is the number one Google search that is bringing people to this blog, so obviously this is a problem for more than just us!

By: AF

AF — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:21:49 +0000

Thanks for the tip!
I hid a friend a couple of weeks ago - just to see what happened(!) - and until now didn't know how to get them back!
You've saved my life... okay, you haven't really but I thought I should let you know that your posts are useful!

By: Rosanne

Rosanne — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:21:17 +0000

Thanks so much. I do use Firefox but still couldn't figure it out. Why is this not easy to do?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:43:33 +0000

I'm glad it helped you Joanne. Thanks for letting me know!

By: Joanne Mason

Joanne Mason — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:40:02 +0000

Thank you! I've been trying to unhide a couple of friends ever since Facebook changed to the new interface. Using the photo filter/add to news feed method worked like a charm!