I'm at the point where I probably delete more people from my "friends" list than actually add people. I love the people that try and add as many people as they can but probably wouldn't even say hi to them if they saw them on the street. I try to only keep close friends and family now.
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Facebook isn't all that bad, but you have to bend it to work for you. With the proper mixture of privacy settings, app blocking and people blocking it can be a very useful tool. Once you get around the un-godly little game updates that spam like crazy, it's not bad.
Edit: Something that drives me mad is that there are no great clients. Twitter has a ton of little clients that let you do almost anything you want, whereas facebook still relies almost 100% on the site. I'm rarely going to the site on my computer though (mobile devices generally), and the site doesn't respond overly well in that regard. Blocking people (imo) is an essential part of the facebook experience, and not being able to do that from a mobile app is maddening.
There are some people that you know pretty well, but all they do is post updates about their kids. I'm guilty of this, but I make sure to only post a couple times a week. Some people post multiple times a day about their kids and it's exhausting. Blocking them is the only way sometimes.
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I only have a few family members and friends who aren't in Calgary. Anyone who I can see by driving 5 minutes isn't on FB because I can actually interact with them. It is handy for me to keep in touch with family that doesn't live here in Calgary/Canada. I laugh at people who have 300 friends. How desperate can your life be that you need to spend that much time on FB accumulating friends who you'll never talk to? Talk about having an empty life if that is a persons only means of friendship.
Facebook isn't all that bad, but you have to bend it to work for you. With the proper mixture of privacy settings, app blocking and people blocking it can be a very useful tool. Once you get around the un-godly little game updates that spam like crazy, it's not bad.
How do you block the game updates from showing up?
I used to have 500 friends. UNtil I realized that I don't have 500 friends. So I deleted all my "friends" and am still left with over 150 people that I know on facebook.
The last useful thing that came from facebook was:
On your main news feed, hover to the right of the update and click the "X" then select block or hide or whatever it says. Essential tool to Facebooking.
New moms are the wrost. We get that you like your kid, but 15 status updates per day about how your child smiled, or giggled is not necessary.
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How do you block the game updates from showing up?
when the cursor is over top of an item, a little "X" shows up in the right hand side of that item. When it's over top of one of the game updates, you click the X, then it gives you the option of hiding that application.
Facebook would be useless without that feature, IMO. There's a few things that still show up that I would like to hide, but can't. That number is quite small now though.
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How do you block the game updates from showing up?
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On your main news feed, hover to the right of the update and click the "X" then select block or hide or whatever it says. Essential tool to Facebooking.
New moms are the wrost. We get that you like your kid, but 15 status updates per day about how your child smiled, or giggled is not necessary.
Bingo, and that hover action is the pain in the ass I'm talking about. It's completely unnecessary and can't be accomplished on a phone. It gives you the option to block the person or just the application.
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Facebook itself is a pretty handy tool to have to keep in touch with people outside of the country or in another city. But some people go nuts on the status updates and it just gets stupid. You literally have people saying what they had for lunch, or they're going to the gym in 15 minutes. Um, honestly no one cares about all your mundane activities.
Facebook itself is a pretty handy tool to have to keep in touch with people outside of the country or in another city. But some people go nuts on the status updates and it just gets stupid. You literally have people saying what they had for lunch, or they're going to the gym in 15 minutes. Um, honestly no one cares about all your mundane activities.
Russic is bang on here. Facebook is a billion times less annoying if you block the stuff you hate!
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How do you block the game updates from showing up?
Ahhh... well-timed question, Azure. Though I'm sure there are dozens of websites with step-by-step guides for this, I'll start off with the basics.
#1. If a post appears on your news feed that you hate, hover over said post, and click on the "X" icon that appears on the right-hand side. This will bring up a dialog box with a few options (depending on the type of content). If, like me, you never want to see another update about Treasure Island or Fish World or Mafia Wars again in your life, you would choose the option "Hide *fill in the blank*" and that particular application would be permanently hidden from your news feed. You may also choose to hide a particular poster permanently, rather than the content of the poster.
2.) In your notification area, when something pops up from an app or group you dislike (and it happens repeatedly), then click on the small print link below it, "Block This Application" to never see another notification from that app. You can also ignore all notifications from a person.
3.) All of this stuff can also be internally controlled within your Account's "Privacy Settings". Try going to "Account" > "Privacy Settings" > BLOCK LISTS "Edit Your Lists". At the bottom of this page, it lists all the apps you have blocked. I'm up to 24 now. (Hallelujah!) Above the list, you may block people/apps/events all in one place.
There are other privacy and application settings tweaks that may improve your experience, but following these steps will certainly get you going in the right direction.
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