The social aspect of Facebook prevents, on many occasions, certain people from being “deleted” from the agenda of friends and followers by various conventions that, at the same time, prevent silencing their publications.
Facebook allows you to temporarily or permanently silence the publications of contacts on the social network without having to stop being friends
This sometimes forces having to put up with certain inconsequential, annoying, irritating, offensive publications in the News feed… and more so today when the Facebook algorithm is prioritizing video content , which on top of that consumes more data on mobile connections.
From recalcitrant fake news to enervating political opinions, spoilers for movies or television series (absolutely inexcusable) or photos of vacations or celebrations that move envy (healthy or unhealthy), there is a lot of content from friends and family (or simple acquaintances). who cannot be eliminated from this new contact list that Facebook has become for many without incurring a possible family, friendly or work conflict.
Fortunately, Facebook has a mechanism that allows you to customize the way in which the content is displayed so that the publications of certain people can stop appearing without having to break that “virtual friendship” and, above all, without Said person is aware that this sort of selective expungement has been carried out on their publications .
To begin with, when a publication from any contact appears next to their name, there is a button with three horizontal dots that displays a menu in which the following options appear:
-Hide Post: Fewer posts like this will appear.
-Hide the user for 30 days: During this period of time, the publications of this user will not be shown.
-Unfollow the user: No more posts from that user will be shown, but they will not stop being their “Facebook friend”.
The most radical option always lies behind it, which would be to access that user’s profile and check the option “Stop being friends”, and depending on the case, cross your fingers so that they don’t realize it (Facebook does not send notifications of this action) and that if it were to do so, it would not lead to a family, friendly or social conflict.
If you later decide to resume contact with that user, it will be enough to follow these steps:
-Access your own user profile.
-Select “Settings and privacy”.
-Click on «Feed».
-Activate “Undo” or “Reconnect” in the options that show that a user has been silenced.
