You can “snooze” a person, page, or group for up to 30 days. 15, 2:55pm: After testing the Snooze feature for a few months, Facebook officially rolled out the feature to all users today. It’s also been targeting and disbanding hate groups that crop up.Īnd now, while you can’t control what your friends or groups say, at least you have one more useful way to curate your Facebook experience. You will be notified before the Snooze period is about to end and the setting can also be reversed at any time. The people, Pages, and groups you snooze will not be notified.
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Following last year’s election, the social network has cracked down on sites that spread false information and started blocking advertisements for those that do. Snooze offers a milder alternative to Facebook’s unfollow feature, introduced in 2012, which allows you to entirely banish a friend, Page, or Group from your news feed.As for ex-pals and former. With Snooze, you don’t have to unfollow or unfriend permanently, rather just stop seeing someone’s posts for a short period of time. Snooze could also be particularly useful for groups and pages that tend to clog your feed with updates, notifications, and new posts.įacebook is constantly working on ways to help users improve their feeds. As with Facebook’s Unfollow button, the person you’re snoozing will have no idea you’ve done so. Saying a permanent goodbye to any of these irksome FB presences will require more desperate measures (i.
You could also potentially use it to inject more variety in your feed: If you see posts from the same two or three people all the time, you can try snoozing them and see who else crops up in your feed in their place. Like hitting 'snooze' on your alarm, Facebook's Snooze feature simply delays the inevitable. This Snooze button seems like a nice way to discreetly make your Facebook feed a friendlier place. (Of course, you still also have the more extreme options of blocking or unfriending someone, as well.) The Snooze button is being added alongside Facebook’s existing Hide option, which removes a post from your feed, and the Unfollow button.