How to Remove someone From Friends List On Facebook

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Do you know those Facebook friends who clog up your social stream with stuff you donā€™t care to see or read? Often these people are neighbours, co-workers and family, so the last thing you want to do is offend them by unfriending them.

Fortunately, there are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts while leaving your relationship outside of Facebook intact.

First, you can unfriend the personā€”Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer looking at your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see ā€œsend her a friend requestā€ in a box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you’ve done.

As an alternative, you can choose to unfollow the person. You’ll still be friends, but you won’t see any of their posts. To unfollow someone, go to the top menu bar and click on the downward arrow all the way to the right. Then select News Feed Preferences. There, you can choose to unfollow people, prioritise the posts you see first, and reconnect with people you’ve unfollowed in the past.

You can also choose to have someone removed from your On This Day Feed, so Facebook won’t resurface a person’s posts from years past. To do this, go to the left side of your News Feed, scroll down to On This Day, and click on it. At the top of the On This Day page, you’ll see a button for Preferences. Click on it for the option to prevent specific people and dates from being included.

Facebook AcquaintancesIn addition to you not viewing the person’s posts, you can restrict that person’s access to just your public posts and information by adding him or her to your Restricted list. To add the person to your Restricted list, go to your profile page and click on the “Friendsā€ tab at the top. For each friend, you can click on the Friends box next to their name to bring up options, one of which is “Add to another list…” There, you’ll find the Restricted list, among any other lists you’ve created.

If you still want to see the occasional post from a person, there are a couple of ways to reduce the volume of posts. If you dislike certain types of posts, find an offending post and click on the arrow in the upper right corner. There you’ll see the option to “Hide post”. Ā This will reduce the number of posts like the one you just hid. If you want to reduce the posts in general, you can tag them as acquaintances. To do that, go to your profile page and click on the Friendsā€ tab at the top. For each friend, you can click on the Friends box next to their name to bring up options, one of which is to tag them as an acquaintance.

But what about the people who you really care aboutā€”the ones you want to see everything theyā€™re doing on Facebook? In the same place you can tag people as acquaintances or restricted, you can also tag them as close friends.

Conclusion

Removing someone from your friend list helps you declutter your connections on Facebook. However, the process of doing this is difficult for a lot of users. This article explores the easy steps involved in removing someone from your friend list.

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