Facebook Tips and Tricks That You Must Know

Facebook is one of the most well-known social sites, and if you invest a ton of energy in it, below is a guide mentioning tips and tricks that you can use to tweak the experience further. Facebook is flexible for customization, so let us get started!

Turn off the birthday notifications

Birthday notifications remind you about the birthdays of your friends and family, saving you from embarrassment. If in any case, you want to turn off the notifications for the same, the steps are as follows:

1. Go to your Facebook account and tap on the downward arrow present on the top right of the window, if you’re using the Desktop version. For a mobile application, click on the three-dotted menu.
2. Go to the ‘Settings and Privacy’ window and head to the ‘Notification Settings.’
3. Click on the ‘Birthdays’ section that offers you three options.
4. Select the appropriate option, and you’re done.

Unfollow or mute a friend

Some people are really annoying and keep posting constantly. You can not choose to unfriend them, though. Thus, you have an option to unfollow them on Facebook, or mute their posts.

To mute a friend for a few days, the steps are:

1. Open a post that they’ve shared on the timeline.
2. Click on the three-dotted icon on the top of the post.
3. A pop-up menu will appear that offers you various options to mute them for 30 days. Choose the convenient option from the list.
4. You can unfollow anyone from their profile if you wish to.

Save videos and links

Sometimes, you want to save posts to view later due to a shortage of time, or any other reason. To save the posts in your Facebook account, follow the steps below:

1. Tap on the three-dotted menu above the post or the activity.
2. Click on the Save link, post, video, etc, to save them.

Receive login alerts

The steps to receive the login alerts each time a new device log in with your account are:

1. Click on the arrow icon on the top right of the window and go to the ‘Settings and Privacy’ tab.
2. Click on the ‘Security Login’ option under the settings menu.
3. In the ‘Setting up extra security’ window, tap on the ‘Edit’ option besides ‘Get alerts about unrecognized logins’ and enable the feature.
4. Save changes once you’re done, and you’ll be notified each time a new device login with your account.

Restrict app and games invites

There are so many applications that require you to connect to your Facebook account, and the notifications are flooded as soon as you link your account. To restrict these notifications to fill up space, follow the steps below:

1. Head to the Facebook settings.
2. Click on the ‘Apps and Websites’ option from the left toolbar.
3. Open the ‘Game and App Notifications’ window.
4. Tap on the ‘Edit’ option and turn off the settings.

Schedule Updates

You can schedule your Facebook updates with the help of third-party applications like Hootsuite. It offers you to put the first few posts for free. The third-party app is used because Facebook posts can be scheduled by page admins only using an in-built feature.

Hide Status

The steps to hide online status on Facebook are:

1. Go to your Facebook account and tap on the three-dotted menu on the bottom of the ‘Contacts’ list.
2. Select the ‘Turn off active status’ option.
3. You can choose to do it in three ways: ‘Turn off for all contacts,’ ‘Turn off for all contacts except for some,’ and ‘Turn off active status for only some contacts.’

Mia Watson is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at Blogs Book, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

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