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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 0:00:52 GMT
I unfollow everyone immediately after friending them. I follow just a few who are family members (daughter, dil, son, sister, mom) They are the only ones that show up in my newsfeed and they don't post outrageous stuff.
Every one else is unfollowed and sorted into one of various lists. When I want to see what those people are up to I just visit the list they are on. My lists are University contacts, Office contacts, internet friends, acquaintances (people I've friended that don't fit in one of the other categories)and family. Having everyone in a list of some kind makes it easy to control WHO I see, when I see them, and what they see. You don't have to be at fb mercy on their algorithm of what they think you want to see.
eta: Make use of the list feature, unfollow and notifications. It will make your fb experience a lot nicer even when the crowd isn't being nice.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 0:11:51 GMT
I don't understand why UNFOLLOWING someone is all that bad. Facebook is like a big party or other big gathering. Everybody talking all at once. Unfollowing allows you to filter the voices so you are hearing/seeing the voices most important to you. Then you can go check out the others later on when you have the time/interest to do so. Or never go check them out.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 8, 2016 1:16:19 GMT
I wish Fb worked more like Instagram (where you can follow people without them following you back, or vice versa) or Tumblr (which also does not require followers to be mutual, and also works with a program that blacklists posts containing certain words). Then our relatives could follow us, which they love, but we wouldn't have to see all the hoaxes and political posts and chain letters they insist on sharing. I'm glad my parents just Facestalk me without posting anything themselves. I hate Fb these days. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it so it works for me. But I'm not sure there is a way. I hide lots of people. It turns out I like some people better in real life than I do on Fb.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 2:18:23 GMT
I wish Fb worked more like Instagram (where you can follow people without them following you back, or vice versa) or Tumblr (which also does not require followers to be mutual, and also works with a program that blacklists posts containing certain words). Then our relatives could follow us, which they love, but we wouldn't have to see all the hoaxes and political posts and chain letters they insist on sharing. I'm glad my parents just Facestalk me without posting anything themselves. I hate Fb these days. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it so it works for me. But I'm not sure there is a way. I hide lots of people. It turns out I like some people better in real life than I do on Fb. It can work that way to a large degree if you don't try to make terms mean the same thing in each program. If you make your posts public you can be "followed" without being friends. Or you can be friends but go to their page and "unfollow" you won't see what they post but they can choose to follow you and see what you do post. After you unfollow them you can choose whether or not to get a notification when they post. The notification goes to a globe icon in the upper right. A number shows how many posts there are from people you are not following. Click the globe to see who has posted and get a thumbnail/summary of the post. Then you can choose to go read it or not.
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maurchclt
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Post by maurchclt on Jul 8, 2016 2:22:20 GMT
I tried to hide a friend that was getting too political for my liking, but I couldn't find a way to "hide" her and ended up blocking her. Question, once the electric is over, how do I go about unblocking her?
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Post by pmm on Jul 8, 2016 2:26:01 GMT
I unfollowed and hid my brother. He's a self centered asshole.
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Post by pmm on Jul 8, 2016 2:27:28 GMT
I unfollow everyone immediately after friending them. I follow just a few who are family members (daughter, dil, son, sister, mom) They are the only ones that show up in my newsfeed and they don't post outrageous stuff. Every one else is unfollowed and sorted into one of various lists. When I want to see what those people are up to I just visit the list they are on. My lists are University contacts, Office contacts, internet friends, acquaintances (people I've friended that don't fit in one of the other categories)and family. Having everyone in a list of some kind makes it easy to control WHO I see, when I see them, and what they see. You don't have to be at fb mercy on their algorithm of what they think you want to see. eta: Make use of the list feature, unfollow and notifications. It will make your fb experience a lot nicer even when the crowd isn't being nice. Thanks for the suggestion. Did not know that you could make lists. I think this will be my Friday night project.
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Post by cath4k on Jul 8, 2016 2:30:39 GMT
I hate Facebook and am usually deactivated unless I have an important reason to be on. Right now I am on in order to be receiving updates about an upcoming memorial service for a child of our friends. It is a tragic situation and the family is well loved so there are lots of people around them and I haven't wanted to push into their lives right now. Facebook is a good way to get the information without having to bother them just yet.
Every time I go back on, I see less value with it.
Anyway - what I wonder is how many people are sharing their heart away and don't even realize how few people actually see their posts because they are hidden from so many others!
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Post by cath4k on Jul 8, 2016 2:31:33 GMT
I just unfollowed my first friend over political posts, and I predict there will be many more to follow. I unfollowed my mother a long time ago; she would post hurtful things, such as "my favorite dd's just came to visit." She has 4 dd's...only two were visiting her during that post. I'm sorry. I can't even imagine why a mother would publicly post something so hurtful.
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Post by Really Red on Jul 8, 2016 3:43:24 GMT
WHY? Why do people have to do this? I have 1 Dem friend who post disgusting things and quite a few more who post ugly Republican things. I don't care what I agree with. I hate them ALL
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 8, 2016 3:55:08 GMT
I've unfollows several family members due to their incessant posts that are just ignorant and hateful, not to mention untrue. However, the nasty posts that I see are all from republicans. I think most of my Facebook friends are democrats based on other things they post, but there are never hateful posts from them about republicans in general and usually nothing even about Trump. No matter which "side" the person is on, though, I don't appreciate inaccurate, hateful posts. I don't want to see posts making fun of someone's hair, body parts, etc. I don't want to see shared photos or articles with statements that are so obviously not true. My uncle posts several of these each day (along with lots of religious posts, which seems to be pretty contradictory with everything else he posts) and my mom has been trying to point him to ways of fact checking the articles. He just makes fun of it and says things like "waiting for sister xxx to come and fact check this." One example was a "story" about how Valerie Jarrett was a Muslim with the intention of bringing more "Muslim" to the United States. It was supposed to be what she wrote in her college year book. When you looked at it, it was so clearly not true and not written by someone who is intelligent and articulate. Another was about Hillary Clinton laughing about a young girl being raped and how she defended the rapist. And now there is one about Huma Abedin and Hillary being conspirators in making 9/11 happen. The things these people believe is amazing scary. Even after my mom and others posted what was actually factual, my aunt just said that she still thinks the story should be shared and heard more. Ugh.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 8, 2016 19:30:33 GMT
I tried to hide a friend that was getting too political for my liking, but I couldn't find a way to "hide" her and ended up blocking her. Question, once the electric is over, how do I go about unblocking her? Blocking is not what you want to do - that's more like if you want to avoid someone who is stalking you. It's even more serious than just unfriending them. They can't see you and you can't see them. Somewhere deep in your settings there is a list of people who you've blocked and you should be able to unblock them. I think you should be able to search for where that setting is, or find something about it in their Help. What you probably wanted to do was hide them by unfollowing. Once you have the person unblocked you can go to their page and click on the little thing that says following and there will be a way to uncheck it or toggle between following on not. There's also a thing on each post, a drop down, that gives you the option to hide the person or the specific post. ETA: www.facebook.com/help/115916435160582 how to unblock someone
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basketdiva
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Post by basketdiva on Jul 8, 2016 20:07:21 GMT
I tried to hide a friend that was getting too political for my liking, but I couldn't find a way to "hide" her and ended up blocking her. Question, once the electric is over, how do I go about unblocking her? You just "unfollow". It's the new "hide". Not sure about unblocking though.
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Post by Zee on Jul 8, 2016 20:12:18 GMT
Haha, my mom is a flaming liberal and does do a small bit of republican bashing on fb but she's toned it down a lot.
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