One way to declutter your social media feed is to start unfriending or blocking people. This will help you get to the important information more quickly.
Muting people on social media can help you keep an eye on them, but it’s important to remember that it can also remove them from your radar.
How To Mute Someone On Facebook
You can also create a “wall” on Facebook that is dedicated to your friends. This wall will show all of your friends’ updates, as well as any new posts from your friends. You can also add specific friends to this wall, so that they have access to all of the updates from their group.
To mute someone on Facebook, you first need to create a profile for them and then follow the steps below. Once you have followed the steps, you will be able to mute someone on Facebook.
This is a temporary fix, as their posts will reappear in your feed after the time passes. If you prefer to keep that person’s posts hidden, consider unfollowing them altogether.
To follow someone on Facebook, tap the three dots in the top right corner of their post. Then click Unfollow. Alternatively, you can go to that person’s Facebook profile and in the top right corner find the drop down Following menu. Then choose Unfollow.
How To Unmute
Facebook keeps track of the number of times you snooze or unfollow someone, but they don’t know about it. So you can still keep in touch with the people you care about, and you always have the option to add their updates to your news feed again. ..
If you want to unmute your Facebook friend, here’s how:
- Log into Facebook and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen. This will take you to a menu where you can select “Settings.”
- Scroll down and click on “Privacy.”
- Click on the “Unmute” button next to your friend’s name.
How To Mute Someone On Facebook Messenger
If you want to stay in touch with friends but don’t want to waste time looking through their updates, using Messenger as a standalone app is a good choice. The good news is, you can take it even further by filtering some of the notifications you get from friends out.
To mute a chat on Messenger, open the chat and click on the three lines in the top left corner. From here, you can choose to mute all conversations, specific conversations, or groups of conversations. ..
If you want to stop receiving messages from a person, you can go to Ignore messages and that will move that entire conversation to the Spam folder. ..
How To Unmute
If you want to temporarily mute Facebook conversation notifications for a certain period of time, they will automatically reappear in Messenger after that time has passed. Otherwise, you’ll have to go back to the Notifications settings to manually unmute the person. ..
How To Mute Someone On Instagram
To mute someone on Instagram, open the app and select their account from the top left corner. Then click on the three lines in the top right corner of the main screen and select “Mute.”
If you want to mute someone’s stories on Instagram, you’ll have to go to their account’s profile and follow these steps.
To mute a post or story, on top of your profile, find and click the Following drop down menu.Select Mute.Choose to either mute posts or stories. ..
If you mute a user on Instagram, you will only be able to see their posts and/or stories by visiting their page. The app won’t notify them about your actions and you will always be able to unmute them manually. ..
How To Unmute
If you decide to unmute someone on Instagram, you will have to do it manually by going to their profile page.
To mute someone’s updates on Instagram, you can choose Followers and Posts from the following drop down menu.
Where To Find The List
If you ever want to see the people you’ve muted on Instagram, you can find them on a special list. Here’s where to find it on Instagram. ..
On your Instagram profile, click the three horizontal lines on the top right corner to open Menu. Go to Settings > Privacy. Scroll down to Connections, and click on Muted Accounts.
To mute someone on Instagram, you’ll need to go to their profile and select “Mute.”
Time To Declutter Your Social Media
Delete your social media updates in bulk so that you have more control over what you see and hear.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by social media updates? What’s your practical way of dealing with it? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
