Minimize Your Newsfeed
If you are anything like me, you might be at a place now where your Facebook newsfeed is getting a little too overwhelming, cluttered, and just claustrophobic. It has become hard to find the updates that you actually care about seeing, because they are sandwiched in between a hundred other updates, and games and applications, from people you really don’t care too much about.
For me, I had a pretty good number of “friends” on Facebook. For many of them, I didn’t really care what they were doing throughout the day, or what game they were playing, or what they were listening to on Spotify. But I didn’t really want to de-friend them. Facebook serves as a great place to reconnect with old friends or acquaintances, but that doesn’t mean that you have to follow everything they do.
Thankfully, with Facebook’s latest “subscription” implementation, you can be friends with someone without “subscribing” to their updates. The fix is simple and after some time, you’ll have your newsfeed scaled down to see just what you want to see. You don’t have to completely disconnect from people, but you don’t have be bothered by them either.
On your newsfeed, move your cursor over any update. You’ll see a small arrow appear in the upper righthand corner of that update. Click it. Now you will find several options. You can unhighlight the story if it appears in your Top Stories, or hide that story from your newsfeed, or you can unsubscribe from that person’s updates. Clicking the unsubscribe button will remove that update and keep all of their future updates from posting to your newsfeed. You will still be friends, but those posts that you care nothing about will no longer clutter your newsfeed.
Or perhaps you want to see that person’s updates, just not every update from that stupid game they are always playing or application they are using. By clicking on that same arrow, there is an option at the bottom of the choices to hide any updates by that application, game, etc.
Spend some time doing this each time you check in on Facebook, and eventually you will only be seeing the updates that you want to see, from the people that you want to be seeing them from.
