How to Reclaim Your Facebook News Feed

As you make more Facebook friends you might find the random noise increases. If anything, many of the recent Facebook changes have made this more of a problem.

It is a strange thing when you might regret making and adding friends!

The worst offenders are the stupid farm, mafia, and so on games and applications that spew random irrelevant rubbish into your news feed. When those appear, nuke them!


What if the rubbish is posted by actual friends and not the games they play?

Worry not, it is possible to silence the worst culprits without banishing them from your Facebook altogether. Some people you want to hear everything about, others you are quite content to go check in on them once in a while – this is a good thing and nothing to be ashamed about!


When an offending message appears, mouse over the right hand side and a “Hide” button should show.

Click the hide button that pops up next and you can then hide that person from your news feed.

Next time that person posts a status update you will have to go to their account to see it.

Obviously doing this might be considered “too little, too late” – best is to block people at the source. While you can not predict who out of your friends will turn bad, at least you can only add people who you know, like and trust!



If you change your mind and you find you are missing finding out about your friend’s high scores or most recent virtual flock, you can always go back to the options and allow those “Bejewelled” status updates back into your feed.


Posted on February 19, 2010 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Productivity

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2 Responses to “How to Reclaim Your Facebook News Feed”

  1. Anastasia Crosson on February 19th, 2010 11:05 pm

    Chris Garrett,

    I was inspired by your article to create a tweetpoll. You can follow this link to the poll: http://twtpoll.com/_anastasiac_

    I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks!

    Anastasia Crosson

    Side note: Your writings regarding new media are very insightful, and at times quite helpful. Thanks for sharing your voice with the mobile community!

  2. Ashanti Josten on November 21st, 2011 9:00 pm

    Which was kind of inspiring! Completely unforeseen. Now I know what I’m going to do tomorrow

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