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Hide, Block Updates Not People on Facebook Timeline

Hide, Block Updates Not People on Facebook Timeline

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  • If you have ever wanted to get rid of some of the posts by that ‘someone’ on your Facebook Newsfeeds and you could not because blocking him might be too rude, then we have another simple solution for you.
  • Sometimes we have someone in our friend list, who likes to share 60x60x24 photos every day and you cannot just go to his face and ask him/her to stop.
  • Moreover it also helps Facebook to understand your preferences for the kind of news you would like to see in your feeds.

If you have ever wanted to get rid of some of the posts by that ‘someone’ on your Facebook Newsfeeds and you could not because blocking him might be too rude, then we have another simple solution for you. Don’t worry!! It won’t let that someone know that he/she is being ignored by you. Sometimes we have someone in our friend list, who likes to share 60x60x24 photos every day and you cannot just go to his face and ask him/her to stop. Next time when you come across such situation, do the following mentioned below.

How to get rid of a Certain Type of Post form anyone

If you using the desktop version of Facebook, the look carefully at the right hand side top corner of that post (mentioned below in the screenshot).

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Out of all these options, just select ‘I don’t want to see this’. You will not be blocking that person or reporting him/her as a spammer. It’s just that you will stop seeing such kind of posts from that user.

You can do something similar, even if you usually use Facebook on your Smartphones.

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Conclusion

This is a perfect way to maintaining your private space over Facebook, where nobody gets to know about your hidden preferences. Moreover it also helps Facebook to understand your preferences for the kind of news you would like to see in your feeds. Let us know your opinion about this tip, you may have known about it already but there are many out there who didn’t know what to do is such situation. Stay Tuned to know more about similar tips over such popular applications.

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