2×2: Filtering your Facebook friends

November 26, 2012

How do you decide to view or relate to different friends on Facebook? As with all things in life, this can be described by a 2×2 matrix:

Love this person Not so much
Entertaining Facebooker Add to my “A1 pals” list, which is the news feed I look at most of the time Leave on generic Friends list
Boring or annoying Facebooker Hide from newsfeed:

  • Hover over a newsfeed item, to the right of the person’s name
  • A down-pointing arrow will appear; click it & choose “Hide…”
  • The story will be hidden, and you’ll see the option “Change what updates you get from John” (hey Facebook, that should be which updates)
  • Check or uncheck items based on how much of this person’s news you want to see:

checkmarks indicate which updates will be seen

 Put on restricted list