If on our Facebook we seem to read only trivial things, hoaxes or things that do not interest us at all and we seem to lose the posts and photos published by some friends or some pages that we follow, there may be a problem with the popular and infamous Facebook algorithm that automatically selects what you see first on the home page . This algorithm is often updated by Facebook (the latest update took place this month) to try, as best as possible, to limit the viewing of spam or useless or duplicate news and to encourage, instead, the posts and photos of our friends closest and relatives.
So if you are not satisfied or want to customize the reading of news on Facebook, there are some tools that you need to know.
First of all, it is important to specify to Facebook who our best friends and relatives are .
These special people can be grouped into a list of Facebook's closest friends.
To do this, open a friend's profile, click where "Amici" is written on its cover and select "closest friends" from the drop-down menu.
As you can see, it is also possible to make sure that a Facebook friend has the status of "acquaintance", which on the contrary will be less visible in our home.
Moving friends to the list of acquaintances is a convenient way to hide their posts from the home without taking away the friendship.
To make sure you never miss a post from a friend or a page and customize the Facebook algorithm you can do even more by pressing the "Follow already" button that appears on the cover of each profile.
By clicking on Follow already you can choose the " show first " option to make Facebook make the new publications of this person appear at the beginning of our home.
On the other hand, if you want to ignore a person, you can press the Follow button to stop following your friend and make him disappear completely from our news flow.
On Facebook pages, like that of Navigaweb, instead of pressing the Follow button, you must already press the Like button to change the default setting and ask that the Navigaweb posts are displayed first on the home.
Obviously, to make the news of a page disappear from the news flow, just remove the like.
Read here to know how to remove the likes of Facebook pages in order not to follow them more quickly.
Some of these options to customize the algorithm can also be modified from the home itself, by pressing the icon with the down arrow that appears at the top right of the box for each new news or photo.
In this box you can ask to hide most of the news published by a person or not to follow them just anymore, even if you do not remove yourself as a friend.
All these options can be configured both from Facebook on PC and from the app on smartphone where it is also possible to change the preferences of the news section .
These preferences are accessible from the Facebook site by clicking on the gear wheel that appears by moving the mouse over the word News which is small at the top in the left column.
On smartphones, on the other hand, you need to go to the Facebook options and scroll through the list until you find the preferences in the news section .
In this settings screen you can quickly choose the friends to see first of all, the people to hide, review the people we do not follow to possibly follow them again and find out the pages that interest us.
Finally, by clicking on the down arrow that appears to the left of the word News in the left column, you can choose to sort the news according to the most recent in chronological order, completely canceling the algorithm and any customization.
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