People liking & sharing pictures on Facebook. Other than delete - how to stop?

Nine_Lives

First off, all the "Facebook is evil" people better leave as you'll just end up stressing yourselves out & wasting your time - as i'm not going to delete the account.

The "delete the friend" people will also be wasting their times. Best to hit the red X in the top right.

I don't mind the person & other than this i like having the connection with them. It's just so bloody irritating when i go on in a morning & my news feed is absolutely littered with the 101 pictures that they've liked & shared. It's EVERY day.

You know the ones - like this & 500 cats will be saved. Like this if you hate cancer (well come on, who actually LIKES cancer? Do we really need to like a picture to say we hate it?). Share this picture & you'll win an iPad.
etc
etc
etc

Aside from "delete the account" and "delete the friend" how do i make it stop?
Or can't you?

pulliptears

Comment on them, tell them that sharing the nonsense is making someone very rich...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-spam-scam-secret-revealed.html

Or you can hide them as a friend.
I've gone through a phase of deleting anyone who posts the white cliffs 'we're full' meme and other such racist crap as well. It's my timeline, I'll see what I want to and I don't want to see racist propaganda.

keithdc

Hover over their name, then hover over the bit which says friends with a tick next to it.

A menu will appear- deselect the 'show in news feed.'

browneyedbazzi

You can hide them from your news feed so you won't have all their rubbish clogging up your home page...then you will just have to have a peek at their timeline from time to time to catch up on anything that is of interest to you. My mother is terrible for sharing/liking all manner of rubbish and I got fed up with it so I've hidden her posts from my timeline...worked a treat

ThumbRemote

If you want to cut out more than that, you can also set to 'acquaintance' rather than friend.

http://gizmodo.com/5905800/how-to-pretend-to-be-someones-friend-on-facebook

eyelinerprincess

I've unshared someone too, it's pretty easy. This girl was pregnant at the same time as me and I heard about every ache and pain and everything was sooo much worse than anyone had ever experienced ever.

This_Year

ThumbRemote wrote: »

If you want to cut out more than that, you can also set to 'acquaintance' rather than friend.

http://gizmodo.com/5905800/how-to-pretend-to-be-someones-friend-on-facebook

I found this out today. Various people I work with are now acquaintances. Apart from the ones I culled totally.

I was bored and got sick of their inane sharing too.

Driver8

Let me ask a question.

If the Government said it was going to set up a web site and you will have to put all your personal information on it, what you like, what you are doing, who your friends are, personal contact info in fact every personal detail you can imagine, would you join it?

No thought not !

Facebook is for stupid people, literally.

Nine_Lives

Thanks for the help guys

Driver8 wrote: »

Let me ask a question.

If the Government said it was going to set up a web site and you will have to put all your personal information on it, what you like, what you are doing, who your friends are, personal contact info in fact every personal detail you can imagine, would you join it?

No thought not !

Facebook is for stupid people, literally.

No idea how much time you just wasted there. Probably very little, but you'll never get that back again :rotfl:

Cooper18

Nine_Lives wrote: »

Thanks for the help guys
No idea how much time you just wasted there. Probably very little, but you'll never get that back again :rotfl:

Bit rich coming from someone who uses Facebook!

System

Driver8 wrote: »

Facebook is for stupid people, literally.

Personally I think anyone who links there msn account to their moneysaving id so that anyone has access to their email address is far more stupid