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Control your Facebook newsfeed with these simple settings

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Facebook is undoubtedly the most popular and widely used social networking site. People use this application as time pass and it is no doubt that many people actually don’t do anything more than just scrolling through the page of the facebook news feed and checking out the activities of all the other people on the internet.
Obviously, everyone wishes to see certain posts on their page and would wish to remove all the unwanted and useless posts which are not of their interest from that feed page.

Control Your Facebook Newsfeed By Customizing Your Settings

Let us now take a look at the process of controlling your Facebook feed. Using this thing you can easily set up the feed page with only posts and content from the particular set of friends that you wish to see. Make your feed page look clean and accurate by simply following the process below.
• Sort the feed page with top stories if you wish to see the most indulged posts on the website that might not have seen yet. You just have to click on the Newsfeed option on the upper right corner of the news section in the desktop version and then click top stories
• You may not be interested to see the posts and content of all the people in your friends list, so you can just choose to show the posts of certain users only. You can create a list for those people from your friends list using the friends list option on the left sidebar of your window
• You can even directly unfollow certain people by going into their profile page and clicking the unfollow button located on the upper right side of their profile page, you can also uncheck the get notifications option which you can get when you hover the cursor over the friends option of that particular friends timeline or profile page
These simple settings can thus help you in making your feed page the way you wish it to be liked.

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.