Want to disable Suggested for You on Facebook?
This is a common complaint.
A separate issue among Facebook Page owners is Similar Page Suggestions sending new fans right to their competitors!
We’ll cover removing Suggested Groups, Friends, and Pages for personal accounts.
Then we’ll address business Page admins (where suggestions actually can be turned off completely).
This article has been checked and updated as of August 2022.
Suggestions on Facebook are coming from FB itself, not from other users.
Facebook has one agenda: To keep you on Facebook longer, so you will see more ads, so they will make more money.
To this end, Suggested Pages in the Facebook News Feed can’t be completely eliminated – without a third party app.
But we can try to temper them.
For personal profiles, the short answer appears to be “No. ”
Suggested Pages get a few users to click around and maybe even share some Facebook Likes. So FB’s mission is accomplished.
Once upon a time we could disable Suggested Pages, but it appears this setting has been removed.
Just in case it returns at some point:
As I noted above, I can no longer find this setting anywhere, so consider this…
If Facebook is going to give us these regardless, then perhaps we can help guide them to at least show us relevant Pages.
They certainly haven’t told us how to do that, but I would start with your Ad Topics and edit your interests.
Note: These settings may or may not be part of the Facebook Page Suggestions algorithm – but they should!
If Facebook is smart, they will pay attention to your stated interests when suggesting Pages.
You can also click on Ad Settings and adjust which categories advertisers can use to show you targeted ads.
I can’t guarantee you’ll see fewer Suggested Pages in these niches, but it sure would make sense.
A reader also had these suggestions:
Currently it is not possible to get rid of the “suggested pages” but it is possible to direct the topics shown…
My personal feeling is that there are some hidden things on FB. They somehow find out how long a post on a timeline is actively on your screen, and based on that sort of preference a multiplier is generated. You don’t have to like it, it’s just the time you watch something.
If you think the “suggested pages” show something where e.g. the girlfriend gets jealous, then click on “show all” and scroll down… and like some pages with a certain preference. That changes the “direction”… e.g. a guy likes high heels, and somehow FB then only suggests pages with heels and then he thinks his GF should not see that.
To change that choose, 10 or 15 pages with something completely different but with the same different topic. e.g. cars… for sure the next 10 or 20 suggestions are about car pages only. I believe (but I don’t know yet) that needs some likes here and there to keep showing car pages…
Try one or both of these, and let me know if the Suggested Pages become more suited to your interests.
Facebook is also suggesting posts from public groups, and groups you may wish to join.
These seem to be based on similar groups you’re a member of, or groups that friends are in.
If you don’t want to see these, do not like or comment! You can choose to hide the Suggested Post and you won’t see any more from that group.
If you see Suggested Groups, click See more and X out ones you don’t want to see again.
I bet Facebook will still suggest groups to you – just not these ones.
Another Suggested for You feature is for friends.
Facebook has become very good at figuring out potential connections between people and now offers suggestions.
These may be people with mutual friends, shared education history, or who are in a network you are in.
Some people suspect they may even be from other apps, but officially, this isn’t the case.
And sometimes, there’s just no clear reason why the algorithm suggests the person!
The good news is that you can simply ignore it if you don’t want to add more friends.
Plus if you happen to block someone for any reason, they won’t ever make an appearance on your list.
Trouble adding the people you actually want to friend? Learn how to add friends on Facebook.
Surprisingly here, the answer is YES.
Are you a Facebook business Page admin or owner?
When a new fan “Likes” your Page, they’ll be served a series of suggested Pages they may also wish to “Like.
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These recommendations aren’t paid placements. Facebook bases suggestions on location, category, and other pages “Liked” by fans of your page.
Fans can hover over a suggested Page’s thumbnail to “Like” it right away, or click on it to go check out the Page. Or, they can click “See All” to be taken to the full “Like Your Favorite Pages” browser.
It’s cool that the suggested Pages are based on fans’ interests, rather than what’s most popular. But it is a distraction from spending more time on your Page, which they just “Liked.” Suggested Pages might tempt them to click away quickly.
Participation in Page Suggestions is voluntary. But if you opt out of having suggestions shown to your new fans, then your Page won’t be suggested to new fans of other Pages. It’s a tradeoff.
I’ve been asked for this info by a reader who found the suggestions totally irrelevant to her Page.
Others may not want their new fans being steered to competitors.
See the screenshot below. If I worked for Crate and Barrel, I would not like this lineup!
It’s your call.
Facebook Similar Page Suggestions may lead new fans to your competitors.
Login to Facebook on your personal account that’s an admin of the Page.
The screenshot below is of New Facebook in 2021.
This post was originally published August 2013. I believe the “People Also Like” section is no longer shown on the Page.
If you still see it, try this:
Now, at least it will be below all other sections – and probably never noticed.
If you dare to try it, a third party app that might help you control FB suggestions is called F.B. Purity. The F.B. allegedly stands for “Fluff Busting” and is in no way endorsed by Facebook.
I haven’t used it nor am I recommending it. Do your due diligence before trying it out.
If you have any other tips, tricks, or updates, please leave a comment to help others with Suggested for You on Facebook!
Posted on by Madalina Dinita 152 Comments
Social media can quickly send you down the rabbit hole before you know it.
The algorithms that Facebook and other social media platforms rely on are meant to keep you glued to your screen for as long as possible. This is done by serving you fresh and relevant content.
For example, Facebook uses “Suggested for you” posts to serve content relevant to you and convince you to stay online for longer. But many users hate this feature and would gladly turn it off.
Facebook doesn’t let you permanently disable “Suggested for you” posts. What you can do is manage what you see as suggested posts. Here’s how you can do that.
There’s an interesting browser extension called FB (FluffBusting) Purity that you can use to “filter the junk you don’t want to see.
” This extension can hide ads, sponsored posts, game spam, and suggested posts.
You should always proceed with caution when installing third-party browser extensions. They may sometimes break the scripts of the web pages you’re visiting. Always download browser extensions from the official Chrome Web Store or other official sources. Don’t use obscure download pages as the tools available on these websites often contain malware and other potentially unwanted programs.
If you’re the owner or admin of a Facebook business page, you can disable the “Suggested for you” feature. When Facebook users visit pages similar to yours, your Page will no longer appear in recommendations or suggested posts.
Facebook uses “Suggested for You” posts to help you discover new things on the platform.
Suggested posts are based on your previous Facebook activity. They’re not paid for. The platform identifies what posts might be relevant to you and invites you to check them out.
The following factors influence the posts suggested for you:
Meta strives to make recommendations that are relevant to users.
Feel free to let the company know when you receive low-quality, objectionable, inappropriate, or sensitive recommendations.
While you can’t disable suggested posts on Facebook, you can manage what you see as suggested posts. Go to “More options” to snooze or hide suggested posts and similar pages. Alternatively, you can use a third-party browser extension to hide unwanted posts.
Do you think Facebook should let users permanently disable suggested posts? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Only a Page administrator can turn the related Page recommendation feature on or off.
When visitors go to your Page, a People Also Likes section can be shown on the right side of the Page with a list of Pages similar to yours. If you turn this feature off, your Page will also stop showing up in recommendations on other Pages.
To enable or disable the Suggestion of Similar Pages feature:
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Click the icon in the upper right corner of the Facebook window.
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Go to Page and click More.
Select Edit Settings and then General.
Scroll to the Related Page Recommendations section and click On. or Off.
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Click Pages.
Go to the Page and click the icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
Click General Settings.
Scroll to the Related Page Recommendations section and click On. or Off.
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| by Ed Revolver The key to comfortable work with social services is a careful selection of contacts. But if Facebook has become the embodiment of information chaos for you, do not rush to delete friends or close your account altogether.
Better try these not so drastic measures.
Let's say your feed is full of boring posts from school friends. But you don't want to unfriend them so you don't get caked in the face at a class reunion. How to be? Just unsubscribe from them without deleting them - your friends will not know about it. No matter how many such friends you have, Facebook will help you unfollow them all at once. If you have not yet discovered this opportunity for yourself, I will tell you briefly how to use it.
Done. Inappropriate entries will no longer appear in the feed. This way you can quickly unfollow any accounts whose posts have no place in your heart.
The more sources form the feed, the more difficult it is to digest the information coming from them. Therefore, Facebook allows you to break down the news feed into categories to make it easier to understand. Everything is simple. You group your favorite contacts by some common attribute (for example, "best friends", "my exes" or "colleagues"), creating separate lists for them. And then you view updates only for those accounts that interest you at a particular point in time. Here's how to organize it all.
In the future, you will be able to view news from sources from each list separately.
The lists appear on the left side of the home page of the Facebook website and in the "More" menu in the mobile apps.
Facebook can hide posts that contain links to pages and entire sites that you don't want. Regardless of who shares these links. In the context of the political bacchanalia that rages on social networks, this function looks especially relevant. If you notice content from a hateful source in one of the news and want to avoid it in the future, do this with it.
You will no longer see news with links to a blocked resource. But the account that posted such a link will remain among your subscriptions. In the same elementary way, you can tell Facebook about other sources whose content you do not want to see in your feed.
There are many personal and corporate pages on Facebook, the owners of which publish good content, but do not know the measure and fill the subscribers' entire feed.
On the one hand, I don’t want to unsubscribe from these sources, on the other hand, they often strain me. Most likely, there are such accounts in your contact list. Fortunately, Facebook allows you to reduce the amount of news from selected pages, which can be a solution. To cool down overzealous publishers, follow these steps.
As a result, entries from this and other accounts marked in this way will be less likely to get into your feed. In my experience, this seemingly obvious option is often overlooked. But in vain.
In addition, you have another way to reduce the amount of news from unwanted sources.
You can select the pages whose posts you want to see in the feed more often. Consequently, posts from the rest of the contacts on your list will flash before your eyes less often.
