Facebook has become a bit overzealous with
what it deems worthy of notifying us about. Sure, gentle reminders about
friends' birthdays are always welcome, but do I care when a random
person I went to college with attends a poetry slam somewhere in my
general vicinity? No, no I do not.
The deluge of notifications has rendered them not
only meaningless, but downright obnoxious. But fret not, fellow
Facebookers: there's an easy way to set things up so you're only
receiving the alerts you actually care about. Here's how.
Within Facebook
To keep those little red numbers in check, tap the globe icon where all
your notifications pile up, and click Settings. Here, you can tweak your
settings to reflect what you do and don't care about. Don't give a crap
about Live videos? Turn those notifications off completely.
However, if you want to do this on a case-by-case
basis (i.e., you don't care about certain friends, but you want to keep
tabs on others... not in a creepy stalker way,
right?), go to the notification drop-down menu, hover over the
notification in question, and click the three-dot icon that appears on
the right. You'll have the option to "turn off notifications" from that
specific friend or page.
On mobile
To switch up what notifications show up on your phone, head to the settings sections within your Facebook mobile app. Go to Settings > Account Settings > Notifications > Mobile, then go through and turn on or off the ones that do and don't matter to you.
On desktop
Are notifications interrupting you all damn day in the corner of your
computer screen, even when Facebook isn't open? This means you've
enabled notifications within whatever browser you're using. Open your
Facebook settings in a browser window, and go to Notifications > Desktop and Mobile.
Under the section labeled "Desktop," turn them off -- or, if you'd
rather they just cool it for a bit (say, you'll be doing a presentation
using your computer), you can "Mute" desktop notifications for up to 24
hours.
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