If you thought someone blocked you from seeing the majority of their posts on FB, would you mention it to them the next time you saw them?

No. It isn’t your right to see anything your friends post.
If you do, don’t say “Did you block me”, but something soft like “I miss seeing the pictures of your kids playing sports”.

Depends on my relationship with that person. I would ask if that was a close friend who I understand, but even then I would use indirect questions like “I don’t see you post often lately. Is there any problem?” I fully accept that the person may not want to disclose anything to me.

Otherwise I just move on. No use freaking out over some Facebook posts that aren’t even yours.

Are you sure you didn’t accidentally “unfollow” them? A while back, I stopped seeing my sister’s posts, and asked her about it. She was clueless, but when I went to her page, it had somehow deselected the option to follow her. I reselected that option, and can now see her posts. Also, I think FaceBook has some weird algorithm, where if you don’t like someone’s posts, after a while you see less and less of those posts. I’m not sure how that works, but going to their page, and selecting the follow option (or even the “See their posts first” option) seems to counteract this.

I know that sometimes people “fall off our feeds” when we don’t like their stuff. I just went to his page and see that I’m following, so I should be seeing it. I did see someone else wrote on October 9th, “Are you guys ok?” Maybe he’s not posting, then, I’m not sure.

Could it be that something serious has happened to him?

The message is loud and clear they do not want me to see their personal coming and goings. It would not even cross my mind to question that.

Some people are just really clueless about their permissions settings. He may think that a specific setting means “keep out people I barely know”, but then not realize just how many people that is, to Facebook.

Or he may have demoted a number of his friends to a less intimate friend setting.

Or he may not be posting pictures anymore.

If it’s the first option, he’ll probably be grateful that someone said something. If the last option, there may be an uncomfortable reason. If the middle option, he probably doesn’t care if someone asks.

So, there’s no way we can guess what you should do, and indeed, if it were one of my friends, it would strongly depend on which friend. I have unfriended people before for “demoting” me – but they were people I didn’t know particularly well, anyway. It was a way of saying, “Yeah, you’re right actually – we don’t click on Facebook.” If it were someone I knew well, I would be more inclined to reach out and find out what happened. What’s the worst that could happen in such a scenario? Either they don’t want to be in contact with you (so, probably better knowing that) or they made a mistake (and will want to fix it) or they’re having trouble (if they want to talk about it, they will; if they don’t, they won’t).

I would probably write a note or text and say, “Everything ok? I haven’t seen any pics recently on FaceBook” rather than asking if you were blocked. Only if it were a good friend.

Did they move to FL in July?

“The next time I see the couple, should I mention it?”

Do you mean seeing them in person?

They moved there a few years ago but they come up to my neck of the woods periodically for family events and stuff, @Brian1946.

Whom do you include in your reference to your family? Just you and your daughter, or also others?

I’m asking because I’m wondering if these people are close friends with other members of your (extended?) family, and if those other family members could give you some idea about the situation.

@Brian1946: My family is friends with their family. When my mom died a month and a half ago, they sent beautiful flowers. I’m best friends with the sister (sister in law to the man who I refer to in my question).

Have you talked to the sister about this?

Perhaps she hasn’t seen any photos on the husband’s facebook page either, or might be able to provide some other insight.

I talked to my friend (his SIL) and she said she thinks he’s posted a few things. I don’t want to ask his wife because I feel like that will be awkward for her if he did block me.

No. None of their posts would really affect my happiness in general. I also won’t think bad about the person who might have blocked me.