Facebook Nixes Option Allowing Users To See Only Posts From Friends On A Page

Previously, users could visit Facebook pages and choose to see posts from their friends. However, as sister site Inside Facebook discovered recently, that option is no longer there. Now, users can only see posts by the pages and posts by fans, but not posts by their friends.

Previously, users could visit Facebook pages and choose to see posts from their friends. However, as sister site Inside Facebook discovered recently, that option is no longer there. Now, users can only see posts by the pages and posts by fans, but not posts by their friends.

When users click on “Highlights,” they can choose to see posts by the page, or posts from others. “Posts by friends” used to be an option, showing what friends posted to pages’ Timelines, or any other posts by friends that tagged the page.

Facebook confirmed to Inside Facebook that this was done intentionally.

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