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Field Guide 06 · Facebook

FEED
CLEANSE

Your feed is your research desk. Clean it up without unfriending a single person.

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By the end: your feed shows the people and Pages you actually want, and nobody gets unfriended or notified.

How this page works: tap a section to open it. Each section ends with a Next button.

Step 1 of 4

Why Facebook Is Different

Gentler tools than Instagram.

On Instagram, cleanup means unfollowing. Facebook gives you gentler tools. Unfollow hides someone's posts but keeps you friends. Snooze hides them for 30 days. Favorites puts the people you care about first. None of these notify anyone.

One thing to remember

Unfollow is not unfriend. You stay friends, and they can still see what you post. You just stop seeing theirs.

Step 2 of 4

Four Tools

Use the gentlest one that works.

Tool 1 — favorites first
Tool 2 — snooze
Tool 3 — unfollow
Tool 4 — pages
Step 3 of 4

Fast Start Today

Five, five, ten.

Move 1
Move 2
Move 3
Wrap-up

What We Covered

  • Favorites puts up to 30 people and Pages first.
  • Snooze is a 30-day break. Unfollow is permanent, but you stay friends.
  • Clean Pages before people. Nobody gets notified either way.

Next step: do Move 1 now. Pick your five favorites.

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