Tips for Managing your Facebook News Feed Part 1
I recently gave a seminar about online social networking for artists. During the seminar a few questions were asked about how to manage the volume of information that appears in Facebook News Feeds. This post is the first of a series providing tips on managing your Facebook News Feed.
The Facebook News Feed is a great feature. However, sometimes the amount of information listed can become a little overwhelming. Let’s be honest, some of your Facebook friends or the owners of the business pages you ‘Like’ can update their status, upload photos or share links a little too often. You have a couple of choices here:
Choice A “unfriend” the friend or “unlike” the page.
This option may be a bit drastic, or you may be uncomfortable de-friending someone….In that case you need
Choice B Learn some tips to manage your Facebook News Feed. Coincidentally, I just so happen to have some of these tips!
Tip 1 Hiding status updates and posts from the News Feed
It is possible to ‘hide’ the posts/status updates of certain friends/businesses from the Facebook News Feed. The following sets out the quickest way to hide posts from the News Feed:
- From your Facebook News Feed, move your mouse pointer over twoards the right hand side of post belonging to someone you wish to hide. This will display a blue X (see image below)
- Click the X
- From the pop up menu select Hide this Post, or Hide all by [name]
Selecting Hide All will remove all posts from that person/business from your News Feed from that point forward.
The person/business will not be made aware you have hidden their posts.
‘Unhiding’ posts from News Feed
If you have elected to hide posts from a person/business and but wish to reverse this, follow these steps
- Click the down arrow next to Most Recent (see image below)
- Select Edit Options
A listing of all the Friends/Pages you have hidden will appear (see image below)
Simply press the x next to any of the Friends/Pages updates you wish reinstate, then click the Save button.
In our next post, Tips for Managing your Facebook News Feed Part 2 I will explain how to use Friend Lists to keep control of your Facebook News Feed.
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You are fantastico Mrs Art Cupboard!
excellent and useful info!