Facebook limiting status updates in news feed to 25 friends? That's a hoax, pass it on
SAN FRANCISCO — Copy and paste this to your Facebook wall: That Facebook status update that you just shared hoping you can still see updates from your friends? Yeah, it's a hoax. Facebook is not going to limit status updates in your news feed to 25 people. No, really. Here's the status update that is causing otherwise reasonable human beings to abandon logic (and apparently the ability to search Google): "The new algorithm controlling Facebook's news feed now shows only posts from the same few people, about 25. Their system chooses the people to read your posts, but I would like to choose for myself. Therefore, I ask you a favor: please, right now...Leave me a quick comment, a 'hello,' a sticker, whatever you want - don't just 'like' - post something - so you will appear in my news feed. I have some interesting news coming and want to make sure it reaches you." Then the status update urges everyone to copy and paste it to their ...