How to Stop Receiving Posts From Friends in Facebook
Facebook gives users an avenue to post and share status updates, photos and hyperlinks. Some users abuse this popular feature by updating their statuses frequently with excruciating, up-to-the-minute detail. This can bog down your own news feed with items you would rather ignore. Rather than resort to deleting such friends from your Facebook friends list, take a kinder, gentler approach. Facebook gives you the ability to hide all posts from specific friends while keeping them on your friends list..
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Log in to Facebook. Your home page appears, displaying your news feed.
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Scroll to a post of the friend you no longer want to view in your news feed.
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Hover your mouse over the post. A downward-pointing arrow appears to the right of the post.
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Click the downward-pointing arrow to open list of options.
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Click the "Unsubscribe from..." option. The post disappears and a message appears indicating that the friend's posts will stop appearing in your news feed.
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Aaron Wein is a copy editor for Skagit Valley Publishing. He has been a writer and editor since 2004, contributing to Washington-based publications and clients such as the "Bellingham Herald," "Western Athletics," "GNAC Sports" and Microsoft. Wein obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University.