In a matter of minutes, we can help make Facebook more interesting to you again with some clever ways to change what appears in your News Feed. Read our five simple steps below to ensure what you see when you next log in is more relevant to you.
1. 'Unfollow' annoying people.
The quickest and easiest way to stop seeing irritating posts from Facebook friends is to unfollow them. This means you stay Facebook friends, but won't get any more content from them in your News Feed.
To unfollow someone, simply click on the drop-down arrow in the top-right corner of one of his or her posts, and select "Unfollow [Name]."
Alternatively, head to the person's profile page and click on the "Following" button at the bottom-right corner of his or her cover photo.
2. Avoid content from
certain Pages.
You can also avoid seeing posts from particular Facebook Pages. This is useful if you have friends who continually share content from StupidDumbSite.com, and you can't bear to see another survey about what kind of breakfast cereal they'd be or what their mystical pixie name is.
When you see a post from a Page you're not interested in seeing content from, hit that same top-right arrow and select the "Hide all from [Name]" option. You'll still see your friend's other posts, but the StupidDumbSite.com content will blissfully stop.
3. Tell Facebook which posts
bug you.
You can
"tell" Facebook which types of posts you want to see fewer of in the
future. Whether it's friends tagged in strangers' photos, location-based
check-ins or links to articles you couldn't care less about, you can flag the
content as uninteresting, and you'll see less of it next time you log in.
To do this on any
post you're not interested in, simply click on that drop-down arrow and select
"I don't want to see this." Theoretically — if Facebook's secret
sauce works — if you click a virtual "no thanks" to enough photo tag
posts, for example, you won't have to witness your college buddy's bar
crawls every single weekend
4. Take Facebook's survey.
Facebook knows
folks are getting ticked off with what they see in their stream, and it wants
to help. You can take a short survey to improve what appears in your News Feed.
Click the drop-down
arrow at the top-right corner on any post in your News Feed and select
"More Options." Then choose "Take a survey to make News Feed
better."
You'll then have 15
screens to click through and give a rating in order to — again, in theory —
improve your future Facebook experience. It's worth a try, right? We tested it
out and it does seem to remove some of the more spammy posts we used to see — but maybe our more annoying friends
are just having a quiet couple of weeks.
5. Manage your News Feed preferences.
Click the drop-down arrow at the top-right corner on any
post in your N Finally, you can
manage your News Feed Preferences via Facebook's main settings menu. To access
this, click on the drop-down arrow at the top-right of your Home Page and
select "News Feed Preferences." News Feed and select "More Options." Then choose
"Take a survey to make News Feed better."
From here you can view a summary of your most viewed content, see who you've unfollowed, and recap on Pages and Groups that show you content.
