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Sometimes we find our feeds swamped by notices from various games our Facebook friends play, that we no longer see important information about them. For those of us who do not play those games that they play, these notices are nuisances.

So what can we do so these do not keep showing up on our news feeds? Follow these instructions:

  1. Hover your mouse over the type of notice that you do not want to see. On the right side of that notice, the word “Hide” will appear.
  2. Click that word.
  3. A pop-up will appear where the notice was. Click on the middle button that says “Hide [application name]”. You will no longer get notices from that application.

Hide Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

Hide FarmVille Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

Eventually, if you wish to see these notices back (like when you start playing that game) you can:

  1. Go to the upper right hand of your screen where you will see “Account”.
  2. Click on the down arrow then go to “Application Settings”. A list of all applications you used will come up.
  3. Click on “Edit Settings” found on the same row of the application you are concerned with. A pop-up will appear.
  4. Click on the tab “Additional Permissions”.
  5. Put a check mark on “Publish recent activity (one line stories) to my wall”.
  6. Click “Okay”.

Account Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

Edit Settings Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

Publish Recent Activity Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

In contrast, some notices come up because we used the application. Although we no longer use these applications, these still post notices on our News Feeds. To totally disconnect our Facebook accounts from these applications, go back to the list of applications as instructed above:

  1. Instead of clicking “Edit Settings”, click on the x mark. A pop-up will appear confirming if you want to continue with the removal of the application.
  2. Click “Remove”.

Application Settings Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

Remove Application1 Maintaining Sanity on Your Facebook Homepage

Do not let those notices overwhelm you. You have control over what you want to see on your Facebook homepage.

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News feed is the unique concept introduced by Facebook to the domain of social networking. News feeds regularly keep you up-to-date with what’s happening with to your friends and what they do. As an example, when one of your friends do some action, it will be notified to you if it passes a certain evaluation done by Facebook. For this evaluation, Facebook uses an algorithm which considers a few factors such as actions your friends do, the privacy settings of the all the parties involved, the frequency of the interaction between the friend and you, and the News Feed References.

When it comes to news feed updates, some users experience high frequency compared to the rest. If you have many friends in your Facebook account and if they are highly active, then you should get your news feeds flooded.

If you think that you get too much or too little news feeds, you can always customize the news feed behaviors. Use ‘Preferences’ to adjust how you would like to read and get updated. Same way, you can control what others see about you through privacy settings.

If you get your news feeds flooded by actions of a friend and if you want to remove him/her from the news feed, you have two options: First of all, you can set the preferences to show fewer stories from that user and Facebook will only show you a handful of activities the user does. If you are still irritated, then you can completely remove the user from your friends list, so there won’t be news feeds from him/her.

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