Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Time for a little clean up

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

Lately Facebook has been driving me crazy, my Feed was overflowing with all kinds of cool stuff, but so much of it that I missed a lot of people's status messages. And that's really why I am on Facebook, for the people. So I was pondering this on my lunch time walk, and realized that pretty much all of the stuff that I saw in Facebook was also coming from accounts I follow on Twitter.

Returning from lunch I set to figuring this out. And came to one important realization, the biggest thing that is missing from Facebook is a good way to organize and filter your feeds. You have two choices: see everything, or just those people you recently interacted with. But the second option doesn't seem to stop the feeds from page's you have 'liked'.

Thinking about I decided that since most of those Pages I liked that were cluttering up my feed fell into 2 groups: accounts I also follow on Twitter (redundant news) or I 'Liked' just once, but not because I wanted the constant news. Figuring that out it was easy to just start clicking on those posts I didn't want and setting them to hidden. Now I am much happier, I am seeing people on Facebook again, not a bunch of redundant news feeds or updates about things I really don't care about.

There you have it: if this issue drives you nuts about Facebook then the solution is simple, start hiding what you really don't want to see.

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