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How to disable annoying notifications from Facebook

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Notifications will be a great distraction for smartphone users these days. Notifications from the various apps regularly will be very much annoying and disturbing as well. Earlier in an article I have already written about blocking WhatsApp notifications on your phones, today in this article I am going to show you the process of disabling Facebook notifications.

In your PC:

Everyone must be receiving game requests on Facebook from their friends, but to get rid of such annoying notifications, you can do something

  • First, you should be logged into your account and then head to the Facebook settings page, over there you will find game and app notifications, click on edit
  • Then click on turn off
  • For disabling other notifications like birthday reminders, head to the notification settings page
  • There you can find the Birthdays option and click on off to disable app notifications, just like you can turn off the button behind the other type of notifications to disable them.

 In your android app:

  • Open the Facebook app in your android mobile where your account is logged in
  • Tap on the three horizontal lines available on the top right corner of the app
  • Then click on Apps settings
  • Then tap on notifications and then disable the notifications that you don’t need.

Follow these steps and get rid of the annoying notifications that you often get into your mobile and even PC.

Some Of The Best Facebook Chrome Extensions

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Facebook is such a huge social media platform that everyone who uses the internet must have had an account in it and the thing about Facebook is that it even has the highest number of active users. And if you are one of those really active users on Facebook, then you must know these Chrome extensions that will power your Facebook usage. So just check these out.

Photo Zoom For Facebook

This is one of the most useful chrome extensions for Facebook users. It allows the users to zoom in the photo without actually clicking on it, they can simply hover the cursor over the image and it will present you the full size photo. So whether you are scrolling through the newsfeed or just going through your friends’ albums, this extension will be helpful to you.

Mogicons

This Chrome extension gives you access to a wide range of emoticons. This extension adds some extra emoticons to the ones you already have access to. It has a bunch of emoticons that you can use, it has many pac man themed emoticons, Facebook thumb emoticons that users can get instant access to.

FBDown Video Downloader

Sometimes we may wish to watch some DIY kind of videos again and again to gain an understanding of that and for that, you can use the FB’s save option but where you want to watch that later, you will need to stream the video again, but here is an extension that lets you download FB videos that you want and you can watch later. You can download the FB videos by copying and pasting the video URL in this website and then you get all the videos you downloaded available on your extension FBDown Video Downloader and you have to sync your account for this.

Here Is How To Use Facebook Without Internet

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Facebook the social networking giant that has started in the mind of Mark Zuckerberg when he was in his sophomore college at Harvard is now ruling the lives of many people that they couldn’t even imagine their lives without Facebook. Facebook addiction is another topic, but there are also people who use it for good, and if you are also one such person who uses Facebook limitedly but really usefully. Then you will need to know that you can access Facebook even without the internet and here is how you can do that.

Using Facebook Without Internet

  • You need to just dial *325# from your phone
  • Then after a little bit of processing, you will find a message with a pop-up window on your screen. The message shows as Welcome to Facebook for USSD, just tap on ok and wait for the response
  • Then it will ask you to enter your email address associated with your Facebook account, click on send and wait
  • In the next screen you will enter the password of your Facebook account, do enter your password carefully or else you will be headed to the beginning again. Enter the correct password and then click on send again
  • If you are trying to access the Facebook account from a mobile number that is not liked to your account, then it will ask you whether you would like to link this number, choose as you wish, and click on send again
  • Then in the next screen, it will show you the list of services like Newsfeed, Update Status, Wall Post, Friend Request, Messages, Notifications, etc
  • You can simply choose the required option by entering the  number beside that option and clicking on send

This method of using Facebook in this era of internet where bundles of Jio data is available may seem useless, but it may come to your help when you might want to update your status but your Jio data is over or you don’t have the signal.

Facebook Hidden Features That You Must Be using

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Facebook can be considered as the public digital square. Everyone uses it, but who uses it in the best way possible is what makes sense. So, don’t lay behind in social media technology, just learn about the hidden features that the social media giant has in store for its users and become a power user. Here are a few features of Facebook that you must know and use to become a power user.

Create A Custom Post:

Sometimes we may want to share our deep thoughts from inside and the Facebook post may not be the right place actually not enough place to post that, and if we don’t own a blog in that case, then you can make use of the Facebook Notes option and take a note of your thoughts in your profile. Just logon to your Facebook account using this link https://www.facebook.com/notes and you can find a plus icon there, just click on it to add your notes. You can also be able to see the notes of the other people that you have been following using your account.

Save Posts For Later:

While scrolling through your Newsfeed, you may actually find very interesting posts, articles, videos. But sometimes you may not have time to go through the entire article and read it but you would love to do it in your leisure time, so you can actually save them to read later without the help of any third party application, just click on the three dot icon of the post and then click on save video or save link and then later when you find time click on the saved option by clicking on the ham burger icon on your mobile app and you can find the saved option on the right side menu of your screen.

Download Your Copy Of Facebooking:

How would like to know about each and everything you have did on Facebook using your account. It would be a nice memory right, you can actually take a copy of your entire Facebook activity. Just head to your account Settings>  General>  Download A Copy Of Your Facebook Data, click on that option and then follow a few steps and you will have your copy of your Facebook activities downloaded, you can go through them when you have some free time and feel nostalgic.

Know What’s Happening In The World:

https://www.facebook.com/livemap/ Try logging into your Facebook account using this link and you will find one of the coolest features of Facebook where you can experience a live and interactive map. The map will show you with small blue dost from the locations where the live stream is going and you can simply hover over the dots to get the preview. So, do try these features the next time and find the new side of Facebook.

Steps For Enabling Dark Mode In Facebook App

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Social networking giant Facebook has recently launched a new design for its website interface. The company has even come up with a new dark mode. Earlier, Facebook used to have a dark mode interface only for its web interface, but now, it seems to be coming up with this feature for the Android Facebook app users as well.

Steps to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook Android App:

Facebook is slowly rolling out the dark mode feature for its Facebook mobile app. If you have already received the update, then you can manually enable the feature. Here are the steps that you need to follow to enable the dark mode on Facebook Android app in 2020.

  • As a first step, you need to download the latest version of the Facebook app in your android mobile from the Google Play Store. If you already the application, then you can just update it.
  • Once you have the updated version of the app, then open the Facebook app and login with your account.
  • Then, tap on the ‘Settings & Privacy’ option from the available options.
  • Now within the Settings option, you will find the Dark Mode button.
  • You can simply click on it to enable it.

If you are aware of the features of Android 10, then you must be knowing that an Android 10 run smartphone will allow the users to turn any apps interface into the dark mode, but if you are running on an older version of Android, then we cannot do anything other than waiting for the update to be rolled out by the company.