hiding friends postings on FB Newsfeed

[SHRED]

My sister told me tonight that she can no longer hide a friend's postings from her Newsfeed in Facebook. Mine are still hidden so I guess this applies only to new attempts? If this is so then that makes Facebook even more pathetic........ but I still return for more. WTF is wrong with me?

[Fridays Child]

1. I wonder...

...if there are Facebook addiction support groups?

[davidpdx]

2. Good question

I have one person on Facebook that posts a lot of Libertarian crap that I tend to hide. Another person posts a lot of EFL stuff that applies to teaching kids, which I don't teach. I tend to try to hide those as well.

[Skittles]

3. you want I should kick your facebook-addicted ass, SHRED?

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I'LL MAKE YOU FORGET FACEBOOK EXISTS; yes INDEED

[SHRED]

8. LOL

You'll get up off the floor and try again!

[Liberalynn]

4. Take them off your news feed

and only check their pages on occasion. Several of my cousins are pukes who spout Foxisms, I didn't unfriend them cause I don't want to start a family feud but this way I don't have to look at their offensive crap everyday. The only awkward moments come when my one cousin says "oh didn't you see the picture of my grandkids on Facebook? "I just kind of look down and say "nope must have missed it."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. I have a friend who obsessively shares animal rights postings from other pages on my feed.

And while I'm somewhat sympathetic with her cause, some of it gets rather graphic and I'd prefer not to have all of that front and center.

The thing though is I don't mind seeing her original posts, I just don't want to see every little shared posting from PETA.

Is there a way to restrict settings so I only see her original posts and not her shared posts?

I also had another friend who is an Uberlibertarian and would always post his own musings and wild rantings. For a while, I felt obligated to engage him in debate....until I realized that he had kept his settings on totally public, meaning any response I had to him could potentially show up on news feeds of my own friends, regardless of whether or not they were mutual friends with Libertarian man. And that's something I just didn't care to expose my own friends to. I ended up just hiding Libertarian man from my news feed to keep me from responding to his drivel.

[pipi_k]

7. That's my issue, as well...

Especially with one cousin.

I swear she must have "liked" over 100 of those sites, along with shelters and similar.

Homeless animals. Abused animals.

I just can't take the heartbreaking nature of it all. So I started hiding the particular site she would post from. But they kept showing up from more and more other places.

Finally, as much as I hated to do it, I had to unfollow her so her OPs don't appear on my newsfeed, although I do see her replies to the rest of the family on their OPs.

[pipi_k]

6. Here's the deal on that...

I can hide people's postings to their own walls which would, because we're friends, also appear on my newsfeed. Just click on the "unfollow" link to the right of the person's name on an OP after rolling mouse over the spot to see the arrow.

You will no longer see anything the person posts on his or her own wall, but you will still see their replies to others on their walls. Or your own, if you're the one who posts a photo or whatever.

IOW, it's not unfriending and it's not blocking

It's just "unfollowing"

I've had to do that with a bunch of people because of the often disturbing photos they post on their walls which end up in my newsfeed.