Hide unwanted notifications and applications from News Feeds in Facebook

Unless you are an alien , you probably are on Facebook just like me with hundreds and thousands of friends. Friends are like siblings that God forgot to give (atleast for me as I don’t have siblings) but sometimes you are not interested in what they are doing or their activities. And this is same in the case of Facebook , you are not interested in all of your friend’s activities nor you want to see in your news feeds. For an example, I don’t play Mafia, Farmville and lot of others games on Facebook so why the hell I’m interested in knowing how many guns a friend owns or a friend found uncommon brown mystery eggs.

I don’t want to offend anyone here, but sometimes it’s pretty annoying and makes very hard to see anything else other than games updates on news feeds. I hope most of you agree with me too. There is also one major problem which I faced is the activities of my friends like ”is now friends with”,”became a fan of”, “joined a group” etc.

So if you are facing same problems like me, Facebook Filter is your answer, an add-on from Firefox. Facebook Filter will hide all applications except those you add to the exclusion list (on the Applications tab). It helps you to choose to show or hide the following types of News Feed posts :

It also helps you to choose to show or hide the following types of News Feed posts

Some tips to use Facebook Filter

  • To disable or enable, click on Tools and click on “Enable Facebook Filter”. You can also change the settings by clicking on “Facebook Filter options” below “Enable Facebook Filter”.
  • You can also add a custom toolbar button by right-clicking the main toolbar and selecting “Customize”, then drag the Facebook Filter button onto the toolbar.
  • You can also highlight the posts instead of hiding them by clicking on “Highlight in yellow instead of hiding” in “Facebook Filter options”.

After doing all these settings, I’m in love with Facebook once again (btw,never breaked up). So if you want to make real sense of your Facebook News feed, then go for Facebook Filter.

You can go through our previous post also , if you are facing problems with facebook updates after having 250+ friends.

About Yogesh Mankani

is a Advertising Professional and running his own Advertising agency in Jaipur. Aside from his work, his other passion is blogging/writing. You can find him on Twitter & can connect with him on Facebook.
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44 Responses to Hide unwanted notifications and applications from News Feeds in Facebook

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  2. Rajiv Ledwani says:

    Yogesh very Usefull information. Thanks for the information

  3. Ramkumar says:

    A plugin to filer Facebook unwanted notifications, wow sounds cool, initially at looking at the screenshot i thought its an application for Mac users. lol
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  4. Yup, this is what i was expecting .. thanks alot :)
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  6. Hey very useful addon.. Meanwhile also install related post plugin…that will help you..
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  7. Muxx says:

    Very helpful post, I’m getting tired of all of the spam I’ve been getting lately.

    I know they are my friends but I don’t need to see 100+ updates every day about the games they’re playing -__-
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  8. neha says:

    hey its really helpfull post.wow i can hide all unwanted applications like mafia wars,farmville,became a fan of,joined a group.really gud.
    thnk u dear

  9. Thanks guys, keep up the good work! It’s incredible. Thank You!

  10. Thanks for sharing such a useful information. I am definitely going to consider it next time.

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  12. nice plugin.. This will be very useful when we have lots of friends.. Thanks for the share..
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  13. blogger says:

    nice info..
    thanks 4 sharing :)
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  14. I’m getting tired of all of the spam I’ve been getting lately. Thanks for sharing this helpful post, keep coming.

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  16. Very well article! I’m simply in love with it and if you ask me to describe it in a word. Anyone can to know by it effective information on hide unwanted notifications and application from feeds in facebook. this post concerned me about it.

  17. Daniel says:

    Sometime I’ve got notification, but it’s about somebody status, not from my friend. Now I can filter it. Thx for sharing bro !
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  19. Ahh finally, a way to have serenity on my facebook account. I agree with you sometimes its so annoying to see unwanted messages popping around my facebook pages. Thanks for sharing this wonderful add-on, all the best.

  20. Excellent! Thanks for this! I found this site from Yahoo, I’ve already bookmarked this site and of course will come back again. Thanks again!

  21. Really wonderful piece of information and I appreciate it that you share something so useful with the readers of this blog.i never about it before and you say we can say some what a awesome way i am fully satisfied about that topic thanks for that post really by heart

  22. Facebook is great for family, friends and small home business – the game-kiddies can have their own social network elsewhere

  23. I couldn’t agree more, what a waste of time, and i have so many other things to do with my time, maybe somebody needs to tell the point of all that crap because i just don’t get it!!!!

  24. Thanks for that excellent article. Is this a wordpress website? I like that platform, very good.

  25. meshaq says:

    QUESTION: I want to control which of MY “likes” appear on my friend’s news feeds. Can this Facebook Filter help?

  26. tauros says:

    Very true, I only started discovering this a few years ago.

  27. Its a fantastic plugin, thanks for sharing.

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  29. Daren says:

    Will this work with multiple Facebook accounts? My wife uses the same computer to access Facebook, but she wants to see all the news feed, whereas I want to hide stuff from Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc.

  30. Steve says:

    A good addition to my counter information overload arsenal.
    Cheers
    Steve
    :)
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  31. Yup right..very good to those who want to see real news on news feeds :)

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