Fake News Sucks Our Life

Decluttering your facebook newsfeed of junk news requires our input, because facebook promised they were going to work on the transparency of this nonsense, but not rid us of it.  Tip Number One:  Don't go on facebook very much, its kind of a waste of time anyway.  But when you do, if you're anything like me, you'd prefer helpful tips on living well, and newborn baby pictures, distant relative updates, gorgeous vaction pics, and funny stuff your friends are up to. 

Not this crap:

I discovered one helpful way to get worthless news, adorned with a photo of an even shittier president, out of the mix, at least mostly, so I don't have to scroll past image after image of ridiculous tweet updates from an annoying attention seeker. 

Many of these posts can be dropped from your feed!!

If at the very top, it is an original post from a page you are liking / following like NPR, Wall Street Journal,or some other real news outlet, then you should probably leave it alone because you chose to enjoy their valued content, and patiently wait until this dumpsterfire parade of ridiculousisms is over, because your favorite news organizations are doing the best they can with this national administration that is anything but normal.  But what if its your acquaintance, Jane from work, and the content is entering your feed second hand from her facebook usage?

If, at the top, it says "Jane shared this post"  You won't get the correct options to just eliminate the news source because Jane intended us to read it by putting it on her wall, in which case, if Jane does this a lot, you may want to consider unfollowing Jane.  If its rare, be patient.

If at the top it says "Jane commented on this" you can hide Jane's strange posting habits, while keeping Jane.

Instructions: 

In the top right corner of the post there is an ambiguous "[...]" for us to click on. 

Options come up many of which are self explanatory.  Here are the important ones:

• "[Hide all from Jane]"  Don't click this unless you find everything Jane posts to be annoying, if so go for it.

• "[Hide all from Stupid News Opinions page}"  Click this, and you'll never be recommended anything from the Set the Dumpster Ablaze right wing anger, or Bleeding Left Sap and the President is a sick whacko, news opinion garbage ever again. 

***Caution*** There are a bazillion of these, so it will take some time, but you can throw these junk sites out of your newsfeed and gradually they thin out and become quite rare.  I've spent the last two weeks, in ten minute micro bursts, telling that little "[...]" box that I don't want to see any more of these, and my feed is a much more honest and friendly place to browse my friends updates.  Its also rewarding to watch each particular 'article' disappear before your eyes.

Now, get off of facebook, and do something more productive.  :)