While in your News Feed, go to an update from the individual you want to limit, mouseover the update and look for the button that appears in the upper right corner of the update box.
You will still be friends with them, and they’ll be able to send you event and app requests, but your News Feed will be somewhat cleaner. One option that will clean up your News Feed is to hide individual’s status updates from your feed. There are a couple of different ways that you can go about unfriending, unsubscribing and unliking people and pages in Facebook. If I dramatically decrease my number of connections, I’ll reduce the number of app and event notifications. I am particularly amused by the event invitations I get for events taking place hundreds of miles away from where I live, which means the event organizer simply invited everyone in their contacts, rather than taking the time to target people who might actually be interested and able to attend.
#MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS LIST INSTALL#
The more people you’re connected with on Facebook, the more often you’re going to be invited to install an app or attend some random event. I know it’s not a lot, but it’s certainly not helpful.īeyond that, there’s the issue of non-stop app requests and event invitations. By being a fan and not engaging a business, I’m decreasing their engagement ratio. Due to Facebook EdgeRank, the ability for your Page Posts to be seen by fans depends on how often your past posts have been engaged. By Liking a Facebook Page, I’ve increased their fan base by one, of course, but since I’m not interested in them I do not Like or engage their Facebook Page posts. Frankly, I’m not doing these businesses any favors. This is particularly true for Facebook Pages that I’ve liked for businesses that I don’t know, but liked because I was asked to. But, the unfortunate truth is that I simply don’t have the time or interest to keep up with all these updates.
If I knew them all and were interested in everything they have to say, that would be one thing. Facebook Housekeeping ReasoningĪs you can imagine, and perhaps have experienced for yourself, having this many connections fills your Facebook News Feed with a non-stop stream of status updates from all these people. Empire Avenue also has led to me liking countless Facebook Pages for which I have no real interest, but I was asked to Like the Page so I did. I also would occasionally go through spurts where I would use Facebook’s Friend Suggest feature and send out dozens of friend requests, often to people I really didn’t know very well at all. Many of these connections were due to friend requests to or by me from fellow Empire Avenue players – the online social media stock exchange. I obviously don’t have 1600 real friends (stop laughing).
The problem is, like anything else we just jump into, I didn’t have a plan. Since 2008 I have accumulated over 1600 online “friends” and Liked hundreds of Facebook Pages. While Facebook certainly has achieved the popularity I’d hoped for, it hasn’t come without some growing pains.įrom a personal perspective, using Facebook for so long means that I’ve made lots of connections. In the meantime, what can you do?” At the time, I’d been using MySpace for a little while, as well as an assortment of other online bulletin board systems (BBS) and networks. Hopefully some of these will gain more popularity than the others and there won’t be so many in a few years. When I first joined Facebook over 5 years ago, in my first post I said, “ Thanks for stopping by! I know, yet another social networking site.
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