I logged onto Facebook this morning, scanned the newsfeed, then popped over to a friend’s profile to leave her a wall post. While there, I saw that she had been tagged in a note from one of my other friends, which had not shown up in my newsfeed. I checked back, and sure enough, Facebook had decided to filter that note from me. And it was a great note. Is there any way to make Facebook show you everything? I’m not a fan of their arbitrary filtering. I like noise. I want noise. I don’t want to miss anything because some automated filtering algorithm decided I shouldn’t see it.

I have all of the sliders on the newsfeed preferences page set to the top (which filters the least), but apparently that’s not enough to convince Facebook I really don’t want things filtered at all. Anybody know any way to get everything? And yes, I do subscribe to the Notes RSS feed (as well as the status updates feed, and I can tell that the newsfeed is only giving me about 3/4 of those), but it always takes several hours for them to hit GoogleReader, and also, it’s the principle of the thing. Ultimately, I want to subscribe to the newsfeed in an external reader, too, because who knows how much stuff I miss by not being able to, I don’t know, PAGE BACK in the newsfeed when I’ve been away from my computer for a while? Seriously.