OK, let’s be honest here….how many of you out there have scrolled through your Facebook feed and rolled your eyes at a friend’s (or 5 friends) status that was either a huge TMI moment, over-sharing kid pictures, professing love for his/her significant other, or yet another “I went to the gym! and I then ate this (with a picture, of course)!” post? Instead of getting pissed off and wanting to throw your phone or computer at the wall to shatter it in a million pieces so you never have to read them again, the brilliant people at Facebook have made it easier for you to rid your feed of those pointless crap-statuses. Now you can block people on Facebook without removing them from your friend list. Because, lets face it, unfriending someone is like the end all be all one can do to someone. It may be worse than actually breaking up with someone.
So here is what you need to do to block someone on Facebook without unfriending them:
Go to the profile page that you want to block. On the right side of the screen, you will see a box that says ‘Friends’. Hover over that box with your cursor until the menu pops down. You will see a box that is checked saying ‘Get Notifications’. Click on the ‘Get Notifications’ to uncheck it.
Just simply uncheck the ‘Get Notifications’ and you never will have to see those annoying feed updates again! And no, I am not blocking my husband :)
Refresh your news feed and no longer will it be showing said persons status’. Thus blocking with out unfriending! Now you won’t have to deal with the convo, “I CAN’T BELIEVABLE YOU UNFRIENDED ME!!!!” ever again.
Your sanity will thank you.
– Amanda
