How do you keep your Facebook news feed from being bombarded with useless information and annoying apps not sending you notifications?
Once upon a time, everything on Facebook was simpler: you had three to four dozen friends, your news feed was not inundated with useless reposts, you did not receive many notifications from games and applications you were not interested in, and your email was not inundated with endless reminders from Facebook ...
But the good news is that some annoying features can be quickly and easily removed. Today we'll talk about how to do this.
Get rid of those who flood your feed with useless information
A lot of your friends like to do dozens of reposts to their page per day, and this can annoy you. Not always worth applying drastic measures and remove a user from friends - you can simply unsubscribe from him.
In order to stop seeing the user's publications, go to the news feed, find any publication of this friend and click on the checkmark in the upper right corner. In the drop-down list, select "Unsubscribe from (friend's name)". You will still be friends, and the person will not even know that you have unsubscribed from him.
You can hide your friends list and subscriptions
In order for the list of your friends and subscriptions to be visible only to you, you need to go to the "Friends" tab, click on the pencil icon, select "Edit privacy settings" and under the "Friends" and "Subscriptions" items, check the "Only me" box.
Choose which news to read: popular or newest
After we have unsubscribed from all those who like to do a bunch of reposts and just fill the feed with various insignificant information, it's time to start independently determining which news is important to you, and not just look through the most popular ones. To do this, click on the arrow next to the news feed and check the box next to "Newest".
Reduce the number of notifications
Do you really need to see tons of Facebook notifications when you log into your email? If not, then go to "Settings" → "Notifications" and in the section "How do you receive notifications" opposite the item "Email" select "Only notifications about your account, security and privacy."
If you do not want notifications to be accompanied by a sound signal, you can turn it off here, in the "Notification settings" section, opposite the "On Facebook" item. And in the "What notifications do you receive" section, you can turn off notifications that you do not need, such as birthdays or events from the lives of your friends.
Block event invitations from friends
It is not always worth blocking a user if he annoys you with numerous invitations to applications and events. It is enough just to forbid him to invite you. To do this, go to "Settings" → "Block" and opposite the items "Block application invitations" and "Block invitations to events" enter the name of the friend from whom you no longer want to receive invitations.
Control the marks on the images
Many people have a Facebook friend who likes to tag you along with hundreds of users in various images that have nothing to do with you. If this annoys you, then you can discourage it. Go to "Settings" → "Chronicle and tags" and in the section "Who can post in my Chronicle" enable the option "Submit tags made by friends before they are published in your Chronicle".
The first thing to do is take a look at what your posts feed looks like and decide which posts to hide or delete. To do this, you need to click on the three dots next to the "View action log" button and select "View as ...". In this mode, you can see how your page is displayed to friends and everyone else.
Each post can be separately deleted and hidden right in the feed, but in the settings there is an item for simultaneously hiding all previously published posts from prying eyes. Click on the lock icon in the top bar and select "See other settings". This will take you to the privacy settings, where you can apply restrictions on visibility in the feed. All your old records will now be visible only to friends.
Next, you need to select the "Chronicle and Tags" item in the menu on the left. In this section, you can configure access and visibility of your chronicle, especially you should pay attention to the first, fourth, fifth and seventh items - switch to the "Friends" or "Only me" mode.
It is most convenient to remove and hide posts from the feed in the action log (the "View action log" button), where there are filters to view only your posts, likes or posts in which you are marked. If you don't want to customize each post separately, you can use a Chrome extension like Facebook Post Manager.
After installing the extension, go to the action log, select the required post filter and, without scrolling through the page, start Post Manager. In the extension's settings, you can select the year, month and keywords to hide, unhide (Hide / Unhide), or delete posts (Delete Posts) and Unlike in your feed. After executing the command, all that remains is to confirm the decision by clicking the corresponding button (Confirm) that appears in the top panel.
The first thing to do is take a look at what your posts feed looks like and decide which posts to hide or delete. To do this, you need to click on the three dots next to the "View action log" button and select "View as ...". In this mode, you can see how your page is displayed to friends and everyone else.
Each post can be separately deleted and hidden right in the feed, but in the settings there is an item for simultaneously hiding all previously published posts from prying eyes. Click on the lock icon in the top bar and select "See other settings". This will take you to the privacy settings, where you can apply restrictions on visibility in the feed. All your old records will now be visible only to friends.
Next, you need to select the "Chronicle and Tags" item in the menu on the left. In this section, you can configure access and visibility of your chronicle, especially you should pay attention to the first, fourth, fifth and seventh items - switch to the "Friends" or "Only me" mode.
It is most convenient to remove and hide posts from the feed in the action log (the "View action log" button), where there are filters to view only your posts, likes or posts in which you are marked. If you don't want to customize each post separately, you can use a Chrome extension like Facebook Post Manager.
After installing the extension, go to the action log, select the required post filter and, without scrolling through the page, start Post Manager. In the extension's settings, you can select the year, month and keywords to hide, unhide (Hide / Unhide), or delete posts (Delete Posts) and Unlike in your feed. After executing the command, all that remains is to confirm the decision by clicking the corresponding button (Confirm) that appears in the top panel.
Deleting messages on Facebook is not as easy as it is in e-mail, since the former stores the entire history of your messages.
To delete messages, you need to open one, go to options and start selecting those messages that you want to get rid of. If there are a lot of these, then it will take a lot of time to clean them. Alternatively, you can delete a message from the list, but only for a while. It will be archived and will appear when that person sends you a new message.
This task is intended to facilitate the application for Chrome -. With its help, you can delete all messages with one click of the mouse.
Deleting Facebook Posts (Slow Option)
You can open your messages and send them one at a time to the Archive. However, the messages you deleted will not disappear forever - they will appear when you receive a new message from this addressee.
To delete individual messages, you first need to open each of them. Click on the " Actions"And select" Delete messages ».
You will see all the correspondence with this friend, next to each message there will be a window. Check the boxes of the ones you want to remove, or just click “ delete everything».
Tiring, isn't it?
Delete all Facebook messages at once
To take control of all your Facebook posts, navigate to the extension in your browser and click “ Add to Chrome"To start the installation.
Upon completion of installation, the extension is automatically activated. Now, to delete all your Facebook posts with one click and not open each one individually, go to the Messages page. You will see two additional buttons, one in the top toolbar, the other highlighted in red. Click on them to permanently delete all your messages and conversations.
Conclusion
With this extension, you do not have to spend a lot of time deleting messages, forever clicking on each one individually. Just install it on your Chrome browser and perform this operation with one click!
Everything that gets on the Internet remains in it forever: all requests, correspondence, photos, videos, music, every mouse click. AND social networks are no exception. The most popular Internet resources - they can provide a history of your visits and actions performed at any time. Below we will tell you what the Facebook activity log is, why it is needed, what it shows and where to find it.
What is Facebook Activity Log and how do I use it?
As already mentioned in the maintenance, all our manipulations are taken into account and saved in world wide web and in particular on Facebook. For this purpose, a special section has been created in it called the Activity Log.
By going into it, you can:
- remember who was marked "I like";
- who has commented or thumbs up on your posts;
- who you became friends with or to whom you sent the request;
- what new photo was added;
- what life events have become available to friends;
- who tagged you in the photo;
- when you updated your profile photo;
- change of basic information: surname, place of residence, telephone number.
To use it you need:
Activity Log Settings
Let's consider each setting in this section separately. How to view activity for a specific year:
- Go to the magazine and click on the "Year" button at the top.
- Choose which period you are interested in.
How to select a specific category:
- Go to the magazine and click on the "Category" icon at the top.
- In it, indicate what you need:
- Publications.
- Posts you are tagged in.
- Photo and video.
- Photos in which you are tagged.
- Posts by other people in your timeline.
- Hidden from the Chronicle - what you have hidden from the tape.
- Likes and reactions.
- Pages and interests.
- The songs you've listened to are a very handy option. It will come in handy when you have forgotten the name of the artist or the title of the piece you like.
- Comments - both yours and third-party users.
- Profile - your page updates.
- Added and removed friends.
- Subscriptions.
- The products you would like to purchase.
- Notes and save.
- Books, games and other entertainment - what books, games, films do you like. What have you read or watched recently.
- Group data - all manipulations associated with social network communities.
- Polls and invitations - which polls you've participated in, which ones you've created. From whom and where they received invitations.
- Search history - when and what you searched in FB.
- Applications - all the manipulations that you performed with your applications: added, logged in, deleted.
- Log of inputs and outputs and much more.
How to hide and undo actions:
- Click on the arrow to the right of the events you want to hide.
- Click "Hide from Chronicle", "Dislike", "Remove from Friends".
How to configure the privacy of profile updates:
- Click on the arrow to the right of the event and select Edit Privacy Settings.
- Indicate to whom it will be available: everyone, friends, only you, best friends. And if you want your profile information to be confidential too, you can.
How do I clear the activity log?
Unfortunately, you cannot clear the entire log with a single click of the mouse button. To do this, you have to click on each event and press the corresponding button.
