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Facebook: Disable "Suggested for You" Posts
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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.
How Do I Disable “Suggested for You” Posts on Facebook?
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.
- Go to the suggested post that you want to manage
- Select More options (the three dots)
- Select Hide post if you want to see fewer posts like that
- You can also Snooze for 30 days if you want to temporarily stop seeing posts from them
- You can select Hide all if you want to stop seeing posts from that page or person
Use FB Purity
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 a Page Admin or Owner
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.
- Go to your Facebook News Feed
- Click Pages in the left menu
- Go to your Page
- Click on Settings
- Then, go to General
- Select Similar Page Suggestions
- Uncheck the box that says Include page when recommending similar Pages people might like on a Page timeline
- Save the changes
Why Am I Getting So Many “Suggested for You” Posts on Facebook?
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.
What Influences Suggested Posts
The following factors influence the posts suggested for you:
- Who interacted with the post: If other users, especially friends and people you follow, have recently interacted with a post, Facebook will recommend you check out the respective posts. It doesn’t matter you’re not a member of the group where that post was published.
- Related topics: Facebook may suggest others posts related to a topic you’ve recently engaged with. For instance, if you recently liked a post about cats, Facebook will suggest other posts and pages about cats.
- Location: Facebook may suggest posts based on your current location and what people near you are interacting with.
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.
Conclusion
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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How to Remove Suggested for You on Facebook (2022)
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.
Why Do I Have Suggested Friends, Pages & Groups?
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.
Can I Remove Facebook Suggested Pages?
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:
- In the top bar, click the down arrow to the right of the help ? icon.
- Click on Settings.
I also tried News Feed Preferences… - Click on Privacy in the left sidebar. I also tried Apps and Websites. None brought up the needed setting, which is…
- In the “Instant Personalization” section, uncheck the “Enable instant personalization on partner websites” check box.
As I noted above, I can no longer find this setting anywhere, so consider this…
Can I Edit Which Pages Are Suggested?
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!
To adjust ad settings from a desktop browser:
- Click your profile pic at top right and select Settings and Privacy.
- Choose Settings.
- Next click on Ads, then Ad Topics in the left sidebar.
- Search for topics you want to see less of.
- Click See Less.
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.
To adjust ad settings from the Facebook mobile app:
- Tap your Facebook profile pic at bottom right.
- Tap Settings & privacy.
- Now tap Settings.
- Scroll down to Ads and tap Ad Preferences.
- Adjust Ad Topics and Ad Settings as desired.
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.
How Do I Remove Suggested Groups on Facebook?
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.
Can I Remove Suggested Friends on Facebook?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.
Can I Remove Similar Page Suggestions on my Page?
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.”
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.
How to Turn Off Similar Page Suggestions on Fan Pages
Login to Facebook on your personal account that’s an admin of the Page.
- From the left sidebar of your Page, click Settings.
- From General, click Similar Page Suggestions.
- Click to uncheck the box next to Include [Page name] when recommending similar Pages people might like on a Page timeline.
- Click Save Changes. source
The screenshot below is of New Facebook in 2021.
Still seeing “People Also Like” on your Facebook Page?
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:
- Hover the top bar of the section and click the Edit pencil.
- Click Manage Sections.
- Click the”People Also Like” bar and drag it to the bottom of the list.
Now, at least it will be below all other sections – and probably never noticed.
Conclusion
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!
How do I enable or disable the Suggestion of Similar Pages feature for my Page?
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Only a Page administrator can turn the related Page recommendation feature on or off. nine0003
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.
New version for mobile browser
Click the icon in the upper right corner of the Facebook window.
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. nine0003
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There really very, very crooked engine in which old crookedness correct enough rarely, but constantly added all sorts of new twists. Some things there are made quite obscurely, so that many users simply do not know how to do this and that. There also a more than strange principle forming a news feed, there are a lot of things the user cannot see wants, there is almost impossible something find - in general, about problems, inconsistencies and outright stupidity this mechanism can be told hours. nine0003
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So...
Remove extra blocks
Facebook displays a bunch of blocks that many users never need it. And I'm not talking about advertising, or rather - not only about advertising. Everything with advertising understandable: they need to live somehow, they you need to pay for the work of crooked hands programmers, Zuckerberg should earn your next billionaire - there are no questions. Though when they except sidebar ads blocks sculpt an advertising block exactly in the middle of the news feed is, I will not hide, quite a bit terribly annoying. nine0003
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In addition, all sorts of "recommended groups, most of which are banal advertising. Plus tape with information about which of your friends what he liked, what he answered, what commented and so on.
The Facebook mechanism does not provide opportunities to remove most unnecessary blocks. However, there are programs that solve this problem. One of them - the famous Social app Fixer. There's a lot of settings, not too much clear interface, Firefox's browser currently stopped it support, the app is pretty very buggy - in general, I stopped using. nine0003
And switched to F.B. Purity, which I liked a lot more. This app can be downloaded from their pages it can also be found install via app search inside the browser (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Maxthon).
Setting up there, in general, nothing special and not needed - default appearance Facebook cleans up exactly the way required by most users. nine0003
Well, compare. Here is my Facebook before installation of this application.
But after installation with the settings default (activity feed only) turned off friends on the right).
Newsfeed
users causes more than strange tape formation mechanism news. Because it's not at all just a feed of your friends posts like might be expected. nine0003
Facebook knows what to show you, but which is not, therefore, instead of a tape of friends, he shows the so-called "Popular news", where some entries can hit many times (due to the appearance there new comments), and others - not hit at all, even though you crack here.
So, if you click on the arrow on the right from the "News feed", then there "Popular news" can be changed to "Newest".
However, this is rather weak will affect the news that Facebook will put you in the feed though thanks to this setting, you still you will see more recent entries. But not long because Facebook hates this one kind of tape and soon anyway it will slowly change to "Popular news".
Also, if you hover over the "Feed news" cursor - will appear on the left settings icon. There is a useful item - "Priority news to show". If you have friends you don't want to post accidentally miss, check these friends as a priority. nine0003
If you have F.B. Purity, then with him in the "News feed" will appear very useful Friends feed option, when which you will only be shown friends posts without the posts they liked or commented, and Foto feed, where you will only be shown image posts.
Disable publications from someone
For example, you have a friend whose You don't want to see Facebook posts, but from friends to clean it up is also not going. No problem: on any post, click the arrow on the top right and unsubscribe from his posts. nine0003
The same applies to unsubscribing from strangers (pages) whom repost your friends - in the same menu you can hide everything from the author, whom reposted by your friend.
Give a link to a specific post from the tape
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Hide notifications for specific entry
How many times did this happen: leave a comment on someone popular record and then you starts to fall through a ton of notifications that someone answered in the comments.
What make?
In the same entry press arrow on the top right and select "Turn off notice for this publication."
Make an entry to nobody saw
publishing only for yourself, so that it no one else saw. No problem: when creating a post in settings access select "Only me".
By the way, in the same place in the "Additional settings - user settings" Can you make a post invisible? specific people or, conversely, visible only for specific people. Useful thing, by the way. nine0003
tape
If you press the right mouse button on the picture in the feed - it will not appear there "Save image as" option.
For it to appear, it is necessary click on the picture: in this case or the image will open in preview mode album, where by right-click there will be such a point, or there will be following a link that a person shared - there also on the image by with the right mouse button you can get "Save image as" option. nine0003
Disable your friend from chat
chat, and permanently remove him from friends you do not want - no problem, for him you can turn off chat.
In the chat column on the right, choose Settings icon at the very bottom. There - "Advanced settings".
And here you turn off specific friends from the chat or turn off the chat for everyone except specific people. nine0003
Hidden family change provisions
Many new Facebook users stepped on these rakes. You turn yourself on page, read a couple of months, then you decide to fill in information about yourself. Change your status to "Married" (or to some other), it's right there shown to all your friends, and that's it begin to congratulate you, although you married two hundred and fifty years ago, well or, on the contrary, they ask why you divorced his old wife and got a new one.
