One of my friends deactivated his account. So his likes disappeared from my posts but a strange thing happened. One of my other friend's likes also disappeared from my post although his account is not deactivated. And as soon as the first friend reactivated his account then likes of both the friends appeared again. Why did this happen?
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Are you referring to your News Feed (Top News), News Feed (Most Recent), or the Recent Activity on your profile?
I think that News Feed (Top News) only displays what Facebook considers to be most interesting to you, so I wouldn't expect your own likes/comments there. The News Feed setting that you mentioned applies to the Most Recent setting.
News Feed (Most Recent) does not display individual stories for comments and likes on posts; you would only see them under the corresponding post, if it is expanded. Are you saying that you expanded the likes/comments and you can see comments from other people but your comment is not there? Sometimes it takes some time for it to show up although it shouldn't take days (unless it was deleted).
If you are referring to the Recent Activity on your profile, there is an additional setting for that that you didn't mention. On your profile's Wall (not your News Feed), scroll to the bottom and click Edit Options. If you have hidden any kinds of stories from your Recent Activity these will be listed and you can unhide any of them by clicking the X and then Save.
As for the Photos tab, that used to be a known issue although the link to Facebook Help in that answer does not seem to work now. I don't know if that means that it should be fixed.
Facebook has designed apps to act this way
It's a long standing bug that has been this way for quite some time https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/164888633588257
You are going to have to click through to your friend's Twitter profile and grab the link
It should look like this
https://twitter.com/#!/Drake/status/195337215600111616
And appear on Facebook as,
Hopefully a better application will come around that can be clever with this bug.
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A bit of conjecture, but if your second friend "liked" your posts because they saw them on your first friend's timeline, that might explain why they disappeared when the first friend deactivated their account and re-appeared when it was re-activated. The "like" was "transferred" to your post "through" the first friend.
This makes more sense to me if the likes are from before you and the second friend became Facebook friends, but so much of what Facebook does in inscrutable.