Facebook question

[elphaba_of_oz]

Does anyone know how to remain friends with someone on Facebook but remove thier updates from your news feed? A childhood friend is innundating my facebook newsfeed with right wing propaganda. I don't want to un-friend her. I just don't want to have to look at this shit. I want to hide her in a closet until the healthcare initiative either

Comments

[evilbunny]

It's easy. In your feed, hover over that person's entry, and you'll see a drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner that gives you the option to hide them (or their quizzes.)

[elphaba_of_oz]

Oh thank you thank you thank you! She won't know I'm hiding her, will she? Can I get her back after all this passes and it's safe to talk about boys again?

[evilbunny]

Unless she asks you something in an update and you miss it, but not through any kind of notice or anything, no, she won't know. And yeah, you can get her back easily. At the very bottom of your newsfeed is a section that says Older posts, Show Hidden Posts, and Edit Options. If you click Edit Options, you get a pop-up that shows everyone you have hidden, and gives you the option to see their stuff again.

[evilbunny]

That's the upper right-hand corner of their entry, btw, not of the page.

[siobhra]

Thanks, I have a couple of left wing friends who's rants I don't want to keep seeing. I used to think so highly of them as smart but now with their blind love of all things Obama I fear I lose it with them.
No sense any of us listening to each other anymore.

[altamira16]

No sense in listening to the stupidity that gets rehashed on the television a dozen times or passed around in email. If they have fresh thoughts other than Candidate X = Nazi, then maybe.

[elphaba_of_oz]

Siobrha, you're not the person I'm blocking. I'm happy to read anything you write. I think we're both courteous and civil towards one another, even if we dissagree. I value you as a friend

Siobrha, just to give you an idea of why I'm doing this......

[elphaba_of_oz]

You know the "Highlights" bar at the right side of your facebook home? The one that shows a bunch of activity that your friends have done recently? There are 12 things listed in my highlights bar. 8 of them are hers. None of them are about her life. None of them are even written by her. They are all news articles about Obama, healthcare, and Acorn.

The sheer volume of this stuff is the reason I'm making the change. I'm squashing it because it interferes with keeping up with all of my other friends - the real reason I'm on Facebook.

[flamespirit]

On your Home Newsfeed, to the right of their last post, there should be a HIDE option. You can use that to hide an actual person's updates, or if it's an annoying game update, you can use the same function to hide updates from that game.

[flamespirit]

Sorry, didn't see someone else had replied already.