I recently posted about Disabling Unwanted Facebook Notifications with a few tips for those who don’t like all the messages and news items produced by Facebook. After a recent re-design however, a number of my previously posted tips unfortunately no longer apply. There are however things you can do to achieve similar results using the new design. I don’t have time right now to write up all of them, so instead you’ll get them one at a time over the next few days…
1. Filter your news feed to show status updates only.
The news feed is what you see by default when you first log in to view your Facebook homepage. It contains status updates, groups your friends have recently joined, photos they have posted and a whole host of other items including things generated by the various games and other applications available. For a lot of people the only thing of interest there is status updates, and although not as simple as the equivalent tip from my previous update it’s still possible to see only status updates.
Using the menu on the left you can change what is displayed on your homepage. By choosing “Friends”, and then “Status Updates” you will only see status updates in your feed - unfortunately you can no longer drag this to the top to make it the default like the previous design. There is however a link to the page it takes you to. If you create a shortcut to http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=app_2915120374 or add it to your favourites and use that link to visit Facebook your news feed will automatically be filtered to status updates.