I don't care whose status you commented on
February 6, 2011 7:51 PM Subscribe
Facebook filter: Can I hide friends' comments on other people's status?
I'm not remotely interested in my friends' comments on other people's status (people that are not my friends). Is there any way to keep "Mary Smith (my friend) commented on Fred Flintstone's (not my friend) status" out of my newsfeed?
I'm not remotely interested in my friends' comments on other people's status (people that are not my friends). Is there any way to keep "Mary Smith (my friend) commented on Fred Flintstone's (not my friend) status" out of my newsfeed?
Response by poster: msbutah: My "Most Recent" is already set that way and I don't get friends' comments on non-friends there. They all show up in "Top News." I suppose I should just keep my home page set on "Most Recent."
posted by Joleta at 8:27 PM on February 6, 2011
posted by Joleta at 8:27 PM on February 6, 2011
Oh yeah I think the Top News is setup to do that for you. I use the Most Recent and just have filtered out apps/games/pages/people that I don't want to see.
posted by msbutah at 8:33 PM on February 6, 2011
posted by msbutah at 8:33 PM on February 6, 2011
Best answer: I never see things like that, and I'm not sure how I have my settings done so that I don't see things like that.
Would something like FB Purity work? It allows you to strip almost anything out of your newsfeed that you don't want to read...
posted by Lucinda at 8:35 PM on February 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Would something like FB Purity work? It allows you to strip almost anything out of your newsfeed that you don't want to read...
posted by Lucinda at 8:35 PM on February 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Lucinda: Thanks! It looks like FB Purity is just what I need. Too bad it won't work on my iPad, though.
posted by Joleta at 8:47 PM on February 6, 2011
posted by Joleta at 8:47 PM on February 6, 2011
I never see that and have not done any extensive changes to my settings.
The only time I see when friends comment on other random strangers' stuff is if a friend writes on a mutual friend's wall.
I tend to view my news feed via "Most Recent" rather than "Top News", but as far as my limited investigations go, "Top News" seems to be a distillation of the last day or so of facebook activity in your network - I don't know why you would see comments friends made on strangers' stuff, since that would seem to violate Facebook's privacy policies.
posted by Sara C. at 9:43 PM on February 6, 2011
The only time I see when friends comment on other random strangers' stuff is if a friend writes on a mutual friend's wall.
I tend to view my news feed via "Most Recent" rather than "Top News", but as far as my limited investigations go, "Top News" seems to be a distillation of the last day or so of facebook activity in your network - I don't know why you would see comments friends made on strangers' stuff, since that would seem to violate Facebook's privacy policies.
posted by Sara C. at 9:43 PM on February 6, 2011
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posted by msbutah at 8:20 PM on February 6, 2011