Digital Egg Timer #165: Lighten up facebook, I’m overloaded!
This Digital Egg Timer is a quick shot of Practical Help for Your Digital life. Steve Gardner shows you how to filter your facebook news feed and reduce information overload. And don’t worry about taking notes, we have a handy, printable tip sheet link below for our members.
This is the Digital Minute that’s embedded in our show, ‘Hidden’ Facebook Tips – PHYDL #2. In this series, Your Tech Coach gives you practical and helpful tips, hints and advice on how to get the most out of the consumer technology you already own. Geek-free help for everyone on the most common problems we all have using our computers, tablets, smartphones, smart appliances, digital devices, online services, social networking and more. Let Your Tech Coach help you get your technology working for you, not the other way around!
For a handy printable tip sheet, please click this link: DET-165_facebook_overload.pdf (Adobe PDF, get free reader here)
Digital egg timer #165 shows you how to filter your news feed so you aren’t overloaded with tons of status updates from everybody.
- On your Facebook page, go to your newsfeed page (home page). (Not your timeline)
- Hover over the friends’ section on the right and wait till “more” pops up. Click on “friends” or “more”.
- Click the “create list” on the right. You can now create a list of friends that you want to see their posts and have a section tab listed on the left.
- To delete a list – hover over a created list and click on the right “manage list”. Click on “delete” and the list will be gone.
It’s easy to filter your news feed and help you deal with the information overload that we all are facing, even from just within Facebook!
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Author: Chris Gardner
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