Comments on: Facebook Overwhelm

Question: Facebook Overwhelm

goalyeehah — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:17:37 -0800

How do I block certain feeds on Facebook!

I'd like to manage feeds from certain friends who have the need to post something every 5 minutes. How would I go about doing this?

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:27:50 -0800

Create a group/filter. Add friend to that group/filter. Customize your Profile>Privacy settings to block members of that group from showing up on your wall updates.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:29:53 -0800

Er, sorry. By 'group/filter' I mean Friend List, found under the Friends tab.

By: Houyhnhnm

Houyhnhnm — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:31:56 -0800

On the front page, you can hover over the top right of their updates and ignore them. They will still be your friend, but their updates will no longer show up on your news feed.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:48:19 -0800

With the new Facebook, anyone you put on the news feed filter you want to see less of won't show up on your News Feed at all.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:57:28 -0800

Yep, when they appear on your feed click the X in the upper right corner of their post. When you hover over it says "Hide Susie" (or whoever.) They will not appear again on your feed and they don't know that you're hiding them. At the bottom of the feed you can restore those people's posts back to your feed.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:18:33 -0800

Looks like the answer has been give, so I'd like to hijack the question while we have all the Facebook brains in one place... Has anyone found a way of disabling certain applications from the feed? I might want to see a friend's updates, but I don't care that they've just go a new high score in Bejeweled or whatever...

By: mai

mai — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:04:17 -0800

You can go to "friends" and just see status updates. However as far as I can tell, if you are looking at the front page, your only options are to get everything from a certain friend, or nothing. This is annoying me lately because I like to see status updates, notes, pictures, etc., but do not want to see quiz results or people talking to each other twitter-style.

By: Riverine

Riverine — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:35:24 -0800

You can go to your own application settings and set them up so that they don't notify everyone whenever you take a quiz, etc. And you can encourage your friends to do the same.

I wish "Friends" showed comments, too.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:11:03 -0800

I've now discovered how to block individual applications from your news feed...

When an application posts a story in your feed, it places a small icon of itself in the bottom left-hand corner of the story. Clicking on this takes you to the applications information page, where there is a "Block Application" option.