As of about an hour ago, it seems that the “See More Similar Posts” link has been removed from our Facebook News Feed.
The implementation of this feature back in April, had almost all Facebook users either applauding or cursing its addition. For users who did not play games, it afforded them the opportunity to actually see personal status updates from friends and family. However, for gamers and app users, it became nothing short of a time consuming nightmare…
The sudden grouping of multiple posts from one game or app, made playing many of the most popular games extremely time consuming. Players would have to click to open the link, scroll to click the item they wanted, and then start the process again. I can say from personal experience, it would usually leave me thoroughly confused about where exactly I had left off.
Based on comments around various forums and the Facebook News Feed wall itself, the Similar Posts grouping resulted in many players quiting their favorite games. I suspect the sharp decline that many applications have seen over the past few months can be partially attributed to this feature.
Now the groupings seem to have disappeared. Is it permanent? We don’t know. It could just be a glitch, but now that it is gone, I actually-sort-of-kinda miss it!
What do you think? Did you like the feature, hate it, or even miss it now? Let us know below!
