{"id":657,"date":"2011-04-06T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-04-06T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T19:24:48","slug":"how-to-hide-the-new-facebook-questions-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/how-to-hide-the-new-facebook-questions-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide the New Facebook Questions Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE –<\/strong> Forget this whole thing and just install “Better Face Book” plugin for Firefox.
\nhttp:\/\/betterfacebook.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n

How to HIDE the new Facebook “Questions” feature from your News Feed (EASY version)<\/strong><\/p>\n

[update:<\/strong> forgot to say, here’s the original article <\/a>I based this on]<\/p>\n

Facebook “Questions” can soon dominate the “information” in your “News” Feed, so I went looking for a way to be able to Hide these posts. As a native Facebook feature, it can’t be hidden via the little X button the way you would hide posts from, say, Farmville. Do people still play that? Dunno.<\/p>\n

The solution I found was fairly geeky, so I thought I would try to make it simpler. It’s the same solution, I’m just going to break it down a little. The original article was a bit daunting…<\/p>\n

You need:<\/p>\n

–Firefox browser<\/a><\/p>\n

–Greasemonkey Add-on to Firefox <\/a><\/p>\n

–FFixer script for Greasemonkey<\/a><\/p>\n

The first three steps are to install these three things, in that order, using the links above.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Install Firefox as your browser<\/strong>, if you haven’t already. Actually, if you haven’t, you’ll probably say screw it at this point. Up to you. B-)<\/p>\n

2. Install Greasemonkey. <\/strong>Nothing to it, just hit the install link.<\/p>\n

Greasemonkey alone does exactly nothing, it is just an environment into which you can install any number of user scripts that do any number of things to the way a browser displays certain pages. There’s a whack of them for Flickr, as many of you know…<\/p>\n

3. Install FFixer.<\/strong> Again, nothing to it, just hit the install link.<\/p>\n

FFixer is a Greasemonkey script which will provide a somewhat modified Facebook viewing experience. I found the defaults were pretty good, and didn’t really mess with them too much. You can experiment with the settings. I actually abandoned an earlier solution for eliminating the Facebook clutter in favour of this one.<\/p>\n

4. Configure FFixer.<\/strong> You’ll find the link for this on your now-modified Facebook page under the “Account” menu at top right.<\/p>\n

5. Click on “Advanced” <\/strong> when the Configure window opens.<\/p>\n

6. Look for the first big empty text box titled “Custom Feed Modification”<\/strong> about halfway down the “Advanced” page.<\/p>\n

7. In that box enter these two NEGATIVE numbers:<\/p>\n

-338
\n -280<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just like that, hitting enter for a line feed after the first one.<\/p>\n

8. Click “Save Custom Feed Modification” button<\/strong> under the text box you just typed the numbers into.<\/p>\n

9. Close the Configure window<\/strong>, and you’re done!<\/p>\n

10. You can still view and participate in the “Questions” feature <\/strong>by clicking the “Questions” link in the left-side navigation on your News Feed page.<\/p>\n

I’m not hating on “Questions” so if you love it, don’t hate on ME. As the kids say.<\/p>\n

Hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE – Forget this whole thing and just install “Better Face Book” plugin for Firefox. http:\/\/betterfacebook.net\/ How to HIDE the new Facebook “Questions” feature from your News Feed (EASY version) [update: forgot to say, here’s the original article I based this on] Facebook “Questions” can soon dominate the “information” in your “News” Feed, so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}