Have you noticed a missing bar when viewing your Facebook? It's not just you - Facebook officially removed the bar and confirmed that it is no longer available.
Since its release in 2011, Fixed Tape has been a popular news fixture. It allowed users to monitor the general activity of their Facebook friends in real time.
Facebook has been quietly disposing of the bar for the past few weeks, before it finally addresses the issue of community assistance.
You might think that removing such a long-running feature comes with some kind of advertisement. However, unless you are looking for it, you could easily miss the official Facebook release.
Facebook's decision to remove the bar could be anyone's guess at this point, as the company hasn't provided any more information.
Users have long criticized the ticker news feed for being a "crawler feed," because it allowed people to easily track everything their friends were doing on Facebook.
Maybe removing the bar is Facebook's way of responding to criticism, or it might just be because the feature didn't get used enough.
Another explanation might be that Facebook is trying to change its public perception, and being a place to "crawl" on friends is no longer how it wants to be viewed.
The company did not announce the official deletion of this feature, but weeks ago users noticed that the cursor had disappeared and that it was no longer working on the web version.
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