I have one facebook friend for which, for some reason, every single post of hers shows up in my notifications. This is not true of any other facebook friends of mine. But I am having trouble locating any setting related to her posts that is different from any setting related to anyone else’s posts.
And it’s frequent–two or three a day at least.
Any idea what’s going on here?
When you go to her FB page and look at the box toward the top that says “Friends,” is there a star or a check mark on the left? If it’s a star, you’ve made her a “Close Friend,” so you’ll get notified about everything. Open the dropdown menu and uncheck “Close Friends.” Also, see if there’s a check mark by “Notifications” and uncheck it if so.
Facebook used to let you rank friends and choose what level of posts you’d like to see from them. They stopped doing this but seem to have left the rankings in place. So when you add a new friend there is no limit for them but older friends you may have limited are still limited.
The default of Facebook is and, imho, should be that you see every post by every friend.
If your friend posts links or shares you can click on the gray arrow in the top right corner of the post and block links and shares from the source (like “I don’t want to see anything from Fox News”)
But if you don’t want to see 3 status updates a day from your friend then you’ll just have to unfollow them. This is also accomplished through the gray arrow menu I believe.
This is untrue. They just moved the feature. Now you only see it if you first click the arrow and say “hide this post.” Then you are given an option to see fewer posts from this person.
I know because I just had to use it after seeing 5 posts from the same person. I think Facebook thought I liked to see her stuff because she’s one of the few people I comment on. She just occasionally writes thought provoking questions–but only once in a while.
Supposedly Facebook auto ranks your friends based on who you interact with the most. So if you are commenting and liking this friends post more than other people’s, you should be seeing her posts more.
If you’re getting actual notifications every time this person posts (as opposed to just seeing her posts more in your newsfeed), and you do not want to be notified of her posts any more, you can turn that off by going to her page, finding the “friends” drop down menu (by the cover photo) and unchecking the “get notifications”. That won’t change how you see her posts in your feed, but will stop you from being notified every time she does.
If she’s just posting a lot and you don’t want to see all of them in your feed, you can go to one of the posts you don’t want to see, click on the little arrow in the right top corner, and choose “hide post”. Then you’ll get an option to see less posts from that person. If this friend tends to share a lot from a specific site, and those are the things you don’t want to see, there’s an option for that under the “hide post” option, too.