7 Simple FaceBook Tips You Can Use Right Now!

1. How To Filter out People’s Updates

Is your FaceBook newsfeed being swamped by loads of updates by one particular user? Well filtering out their updates is easy. Place the mouse cursor to the right of one of the updates from them and a hide button will appear. Click on this button and you will be given the option to hide this user. Updates from this user will no longer appear in your newsfeed.

If you want to remove the filter then go to the bottom of the page. Click on ‘Edit Options’ on the bar and this will give you a list of users you have filtered out. If you wish to see their updates again click on ‘Add to Newsfeed’ and this users updates will now appear in your newsfeed from now on.

Select user you wish to hide updates from

Move cursor to the right of update and Hide but will appear

2. How To View a list of ‘Pages’ or ‘Groups’ that you are a fan of

Click on Profile and then Info and scroll to the bottom. You will see the ‘Pages’ heading. Click on ‘Show All’ to see a list of all the pages you are a fan of. You will find ‘Groups’ just above ‘Pages’. Click on ‘See all’ to see a list of all the Groups you have joined.

Click Profile and then Info

Scroll to bottom of Info page you will find Pages

3. How to Remove yourself as a Fan of a FaceBook page

First of all type the name of the page into your search bar and it should appear in the list. Alternatively you can just click on one of the updates from this page and this will bring you to the actual FaceBook page.  Scroll down the page until you get to the bottom of the left menu bar. Then click on ‘Remove me from Fans’ and this will be removed from your pages.

4. How to create a Page for your organisation, business etc.

If you wish to create a FaceBook page then go here Here and follow the on screen instructions.

Create a new Page

5. How To get your own FaceBook username

First of all what is a username? A username allows you to give your family or friends an easy way to link to your FaceBook page. By placing the username after www.FaceBook.com a person can easily get to your page. E.g.  www.FaceBook.com/TheComputerCoach. Each username is unique so if your name is already taken you cannot use it. To claim your Username go here.

6. How to stop a person constantly appearing in your Suggestions box

In the right of the ‘Suggestion’ box click on the ‘X’. This will close the entry and that user will not appear again.

7. How To View, Edit or Remove  all Applications you are using

Go to the bar at the bottom of any FaceBook page. Click on ‘Applications’ and towards the bottom of the menu click ‘Edit Applications’.

You will be brought to a page that displays a list of your applications filtered  by the selection in the ‘Show’ box. You can change the filter in this box to allow you to filter by ‘Authorised’, “Allowed to Post” etc. From here you can go to the application pages, changes settings or remove the application from your profile.

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