There’s an aquaintance mine who has been making a lot of posts that I find annoying. I’d like to stop seeing his posts. Do I have any way to “ignore” him without possibly causing any hurt feelings by removing him from my friends list?
Yep. Mouse over the annoying post. You’ll see an X in the top right corner of the post. Click on it, and it will give you the option of hiding any future posts from that friend.
Related question that doesn’t deserve its own thread: Is there a way to keep someone from seeing a post of mine without defriending them?
When writing the status, click on the little picture of a lock and chose who you don’t want to see that status. You can set it as a default if you want so they can’t see any of your statuses.
Account - privacy - customize. Go to dropdown menues on “things i share” (posts are at the top, but you might hide other things, too). Select customize, and type their name in where it says hide.
Change your privacy preferences for that type of post, listing either them, or a list you’ve put them on, as excluded. Or do that for a particular post before making it by clicking the little padlock symbol, then customized, and then adding them, or a list you’ve put them on, as excluded
Once it is on the net, there are no secrets. Don’t want it to ever bite you in the butt? Don’t post it. It is plain silly to think that the other party might not find out some time in the future.
YMMV
Yes and no.
Yes, there are Facebook settings that prevent Facebook from directly showing them the contents of your post.
No, once you put anything in electronic form, they’ll eventually see it if you don’t want them to see it. Heck, the more you don’t want them to see it, the higher chance there is that they’ll see it. Basically, what GunNSpot said.
There’s other reasons to do it though. For example, there’s a handful of people I blocked (just status updates) because they comment on Every.Single.One of them, to the point where it was getting annoying. I’ve only been called on it once and my response is that I don’t exclude anyone, but rather I have a small list of friends on an “include” list that get my updates since I don’t see any reason for everyone I went to high school with or worked with in the last five years to have to see everything I post.
that worked…now how do I reverse that if I want to see their post again?
Click the blue “Edit options” at the very bottom of the page. A window will appear and the panel on the right of that window will show everyone on your “Hidden” list. Click on the X next to their name.
So, I shouldn’t post drivel like this? And if i ever make a post with the phrase “violating hot pink poodles”, it’ll come back to haunt me? And when I run for public office, they’ll pull this out and say “My opponent digs once made a comment IN A PUBLIC FORUM that contained the phrase ‘The Jonas Brothers are America’s last hope, and I call on them to stop the violence in our inner cities.’ If it were not so, would he not publicly deny it?”
:::::::::::::::whew:::::::::::::::::::::: Glad I know better now.
I do the same thing.
I have 3 people on my FB friend’s who always make stupid comments on my status updates, so I just locked them out of seeing them, and prevent them from making any comments.
It works like a charm.
If I “Hid” someone according to the directions in this thread, does that also hide any comments they make regarding my own Status Updates or are those still shown? A teacher of mine is an admittedly batshit insane Tea Bagger, but he still occasionally has a rational thought regarding others’ posts.
Well if you hide someone, it’s a mutual thing. So he won’t be able to see your status or profile anymore. From Facebook’s help page: “they will not be able to see your Wall posts, comments on mutual friends’ Walls, or that you are a member of the same group as them. They will, however, see your comments on content that is posted by a mutual friend. You will see their comments as well.”
Since this has become kind of a general Facebook thread anyway, let me ask this: How the hell do I block these “So-and-so likes ‘If I lay perfectly still the murderer won’t get me’ on [heart symbol]” and shit like that? My home page is full them.
You all need to get FB Purity. Well, if you have Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera. It will block all of those applications for you and you will enjoy using Facebook for once.
And/or you can individually block those apps from showing in your feed the same way you block friends like Shemdrik posted in post #2. Mouse over and choose “hide.”
Problem with that method is that a lot of those annoying apps are one-offs. You can block all of Farmville with one “hide” but “What 80’s Actor Are you?” is probably a different app than “What 90’s Actor Are you?” and will need to be hidden separately.