There's a viral status going around Facebook right now saying that Facebook is arbitrarily blocking newsfeeds, and only showing you the one's of it's choosing. Here's the status message being pasted along:
"Facebook is blocking all your friends news feeds except the 250 they choose! To undo: from HOME page, select NEWS FEED and scroll to bottom of page, click "Edit Options" (to the right side) ~ (left side is "older posts). Select NEWS FEED SETTINGS. reset 250 to 5000 (Facebook's max. friends)"
Here's a step by step tutorial on how to do this:
To the top left of your screen, click where you see it highlighted in Blue below:
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Here's a good start! Clicky
What number would you recommend?

I think its just a matter or what you want. No clue what everyone else put but I changed mine to 450

I set mine to 5000 as a test, and to be honest haven't noticed much difference.

Wellington Florida
Married
Great info thanks and I plan to share this one on facebook with my friends. Gotta love all the stuff that facebook does - aggravating!