Facebook news feed

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If anyone has any clue how to remedy this, I'm all ears

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Delete facebook.

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just someone I've encountered professionally over the past 10 years)

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Facebook is supposed to be a means of keeping in touch with FRIENDS that you do want to hear from. It wasn't meant to be a networking tool. If you are tired of hearing details about a certain person, simply delete them from your friends list. It is very simple.

I deleted my Facebook account a long time ago. Don't even miss it.

Install the Chrome extension called Social Fixer. Then configure Social Fixer to hide posts with these keywords or phrases:

commented on this
replied to a
reacted to this
liked this
shared a link
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maybe you should re-read my OP to see what my gripe is. My issue doesn't relate to the status updates and photos posted by the people on my friends list. My gripe is that i see all the photos and status updates that they like or comment on. For example, i have an uncle in NY, and he "liked" someone's marital status update, and this popped up on my feed, despite them being complete strangers and living 2500 miles away from me.

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I also think they put stuff in your feed more from friends you have interacted with. I mostly browse around on there, not really posting much myself. I commented on a pic a friend posted about a month ago, and the next week I saw tons of posts that were this friend liking/sharing/commenting on someone else's post/page. You can unfollow people pretty easily from the app. There's a little dropdown arrow on a post. You can hide posts like that, or unfollow the person. I unfollowed a local news station when I realized they were posting something like 15 weather updates one day. I tried the see fewer posts like this option, but that didn't get rid of them altogether.

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You can unfollow people pretty easily from the app. There's a little dropdown arrow on a post. You can hide posts like that, or unfollow the person.

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see that's the problem, you can unfollow someone (which i do regularly), but you can't follow someone, and only see their status posts. Further, the situation you are describing is if I/you like or comment on a specific post, Facebook will send a notification every time someone else comments or likes that same post; that's easy to disable.

Here's a specific example of my complaint- i worked with and was friendly with a guy a while back, and he recently became a body builder. It's interesting to see his posts, how he does in competitions, etc (so i don't necessarily want to unfollow him). However, i don't need to know when he "likes" someone's relationship status, because i have no clue who that person is, nor do i care. But now, i have that person's post showing up on my feed.

Woah. Thank you, sir.