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How to disable irrelevant Facebook notifications?
It's Facebooks way of getting you to use more Facebook. Which in your case, failed miserably.
They send these notifications to people who haven't had much of interaction on facebook to have a page ...
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How do you stop your friends from being notified of what you post on others' walls?
If you are frequent poster (means if you keep updating status, sharing etc), they will not get any notification but if you are posting something after a long time (3 weeks or more), they will get ...
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How can I stop getting notifications about people I don't follow posting statuses on Facebook?
Click the menu (indicated by three horizontal dots). You'll get at least two options: hide that individual notification and hide all about that person. Select the second and you should stop seeing the ...
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Facebook: "Help them see future posts by inviting them to like your Page."
Click on the notification. It will take you to your post.
Click on the Likes number under your post.
A window will pop up allowing you to Invite those people to Like your page.
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How to disable the flashing title when someone messages me on Facebook?
I know, this is extremely annoying.
You can try this on Chrome. This worked for me (with a pinned tab), in February 2017.
Create folder somewhere on your hard drive and create these two files in it:
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Notifications only for comments on your Facebook Page, not Likes
To only view comment notifications:
Install and open http://www.fbpurity.com/
Click the CSS link and add the following CSS code:
div[data-gt*=notif_page] li:not([data-gt*=comment]) {display:none !...
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Do all members of a Facebook Group get notifications of ALL posts?
Yes. By default a group member get notifications for all the post. A group member can change this setting anytime.
How do I edit my notification settings for a group?
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Turning off email notifications for individual group posts on Facebook
Unsubscribe directly from your email for which you don't want to be notify.
Suppose someone else replies to the post, you will get an email, unsubscribe that one.
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Is there a way to turn off Facebook’s spammy page notifications?
A possible indirect solution would be to utilize Facebook's business manager. It allows you to add pages and do page management through the business manager portal as opposed to your personal account. ...
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Facebook individual notification "mark as read" button is gone
The "Mark As Read" option is still there; it's just hard to see. Below the ellipsis is a single dot -- if you hover over this dot, "Mark As Read" will appear. Clicking on the dot will mark the ...
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How do I set up alerts on Facebook Marketplace?
It looks like the option to create new alerts has now been removed. Facebook is constantly making changes to the Marketplace portion of their app. Over time they add, remove, and change features.
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How to receive email notification of new Facebook messages (2021)
I went and looked in the usual place where we would set notifications for our email and indeed it seems Messenger option isn't present. There was another question asked how to enable on it, and ...
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Is there a way to disable the Facebook in-browser notifications?
I'm using uBlock Origin (which is anyhow very recommended addon) and used it to block these pop-ups. This is how:
Once a pop-up pops-up:
Click on the add-on's icon.
Click on the picker icon on the ...
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How to block Facebook in-page popup notifications in lower left corner?
The F.B. Purity extension can do this: https://www.fbpurity.com/install.htm
The setting is under FBP->Notification Options->check "Hide Notification Popups"
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Instagram notification: "X, who you may know, is on Instagram. Would you like to follow them?"
These have been annoying me as well. Unfortunately, you can't turn these off. You would have to turn off all Instagram notifications to get rid of it.
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How to stop the "friendship anniversary" notifications on Facebook?
Here's the trick:
First, you need to switch to "Classic Facebook", as the "new Facebook" (as of May 2020) does not have the option.
Then, go to https://www.facebook.com/memories/ and disable ...
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Activity notifications of groups my page joins are turned off, but why do I still get them?
Go to https://www.facebook.com/pg/YOUR_PAGE/groups/ there will be another button to hide notification:
However not all the groups are shown in this list, and not always a group has this option. I don'...
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How do I set up alerts on Facebook Marketplace?
As of this posting, it can be set up on the FB phone App. Go to the Marketplace. Search your term. Select the
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How to disable irrelevant Facebook notifications?
As answered by Patrick in the comments of the question, they hid the turn off option too deep.
First, Enable desktop notifications
Then disable recent notifications
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How to disable irrelevant Facebook notifications?
Some friends are designated "close friends" and you get updated on everything they do. Try checking specific friends you get a lot of notifications from. Make sure they're not listed as close friends (...
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How can I stop Facebook "Alice commented on Bob's status" notifications?
Go to that individual's ("Alice's") profile page and closer to the right side on the cover photo, (where you'd normally click on "add friend" to request them, but it now says "friends" with a downward ...
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How do I turn off the "Turn on Facebook Notifications" popup?
Instructions for how to stop the "Turn on Facebook Notifications" pop-up
Click the green "Turn on" button in the popup window.
If you havent already turned off "off site" notifications in the ...
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If I turn Notifications of Group Activity to OFF, do I still see comments on my posts?
I tested. The answer appears to be YES.
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How do I turn off Facebook notifications when someone likes my comment?
There is no way to do this at the moment. Don't know if Facebook have any plan to implement this feature in the near future.
Learn more about how to adjust notification.
Here is a Chrome extension ...
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Can the group administrator set the notification level for its Facebook group?
No, you can not change notification setting for group members. You can change only for yourself. Only group members can change the group notification for their self.
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If I follow a post, will the owner be notified it was me?
If you follow someone, he/she will get notified once that you followed him/her. You can set priority to see his/her post at first on your feed, this time he/she won't get notified. If you follow a ...
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Notifications only for comments on your Facebook Page, not Likes
Turn off “More Activity About You” setting in notification preferences.
I was looking for this option for long-long time. And it seems like Facebook added it recently.
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Notifications only for comments on your Facebook Page, not Likes
I use the Chrome extension called "Hide 'Like' Notifications" and it works brilliantly. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to hide them on the mobile native apps yet though.
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