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Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts) Mon Sep 7, 2015, 06:18 PM Sep 2015

How do I get Facebook to stop making friend suggestions and other unwanted meddling?

It's intrusive when I see recommended pages that come out of no where. And the worst thing is when they put together history pages with someone that you really have no special reason to follow. It's like Facebook is worse than the malicious town gossip.

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How do I get Facebook to stop making friend suggestions and other unwanted meddling? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 OP

There's a small "v" in the upper right hand corner of the post. Suich Sep 2015 #1

Thanks. I wish I could block all the nonsense. Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #2

stop feeding the Facebook Borg Skittles Sep 2015 #3

I think this is the best solution. Facebook is the antichrist lol. Tipperary Sep 2015 #7

Just tell them to quit it. trof Sep 2015 #4

Stop it! pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #5

Love it. Thanks for the laugh. trof Sep 2015 #8

I WILL KICK STERN TROF ASS Skittles Sep 2015 #18

Promises, promises... trof Sep 2015 #21

Get the FB Purity Add-on Heddi Sep 2015 #6

+1 Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #11

This is great! Tom_Foolery Sep 2015 #20

How do I get Facebook to stop? Hayduke Bomgarte Sep 2015 #9

I am SO impressed with people when I find they were never sucked into the FB Borg Skittles Sep 2015 #19

Ignore??? elleng Sep 2015 #10

I did find a convenient way to eliminate everything and everyone that Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #12

The first rule of Facebook is you cannot 'unfriend' Facebook pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #13

It keeps suggesting one of my ex-boyfriends n/t TexasBushwhacker Sep 2015 #14

Thank goodness my old boyfriends have had the good sense of not starting a Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #15

Is his number in your phone's contact list? ohnoyoudidnt Sep 2015 #16

Don't access the site. If Facebook makes a friend suggestion and you don't read it...... yellowcanine Sep 2015 #17

Suich

(10,642 posts)

1. There's a small "v" in the upper right hand corner of the post.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 06:21 PM

Sep 2015

It offers a couple of choices.

Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts)

2. Thanks. I wish I could block all the nonsense.

Reply to Suich (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 06:31 PM

Sep 2015

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

3. stop feeding the Facebook Borg

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 06:59 PM

Sep 2015

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)

7. I think this is the best solution. Facebook is the antichrist lol.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:39 PM

Sep 2015

So much trouble comes from it.

trof

(54,256 posts)

4. Just tell them to quit it.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:13 PM

Sep 2015

I just give the screen a stern look and, in a commanding voice, loudly say "STOP THAT!"

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

5. Stop it!

Reply to trof (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:22 PM

Sep 2015

trof

(54,256 posts)

8. Love it. Thanks for the laugh.

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:39 PM

Sep 2015

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

18. I WILL KICK STERN TROF ASS

Reply to trof (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 05:47 PM

Sep 2015

YES INDEED

trof

(54,256 posts)

21. Promises, promises...

Reply to Skittles (Reply #18)

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 06:50 PM

Sep 2015

You don't write, you don't call.
Just idle threats.

Heddi

(18,312 posts)

6. Get the FB Purity Add-on

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:24 PM

Sep 2015

https://www.facebook.com/fluffbustingpurity?fref=ts

I've been using it for about a year or so. It blocks anything you want blocked-add pages, that annoying bullshit on the right hand side, auto-play videos, people you know, etc.

It's great and very customizable.

Every once in a while I have to log in through a non-FB Purity browser and oh god...what suckage I'm missing.

It has thoroughly enhanced my FB experience.

Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts)

11. +1

Reply to Heddi (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 08:10 PM

Sep 2015

Tom_Foolery

(4,691 posts)

20. This is great!

Reply to Heddi (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 06:22 PM

Sep 2015

Thanks!

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)

9. How do I get Facebook to stop?

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:51 PM

Sep 2015

The way I did it, was to have never have had an account and never visiting anyone else's.

I'm guessing it's too late for you to try that.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

19. I am SO impressed with people when I find they were never sucked into the FB Borg

Reply to Hayduke Bomgarte (Reply #9)

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 05:48 PM

Sep 2015

YES INDEED

elleng

(130,895 posts)

10. Ignore???

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:55 PM

Sep 2015

Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts)

12. I did find a convenient way to eliminate everything and everyone that

Reply to elleng (Reply #10)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 08:11 PM

Sep 2015

was irrelevant. Little down arrow on the upper right-hand side.

Now the artificial intelligent software knows just a little more about me.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

13. The first rule of Facebook is you cannot 'unfriend' Facebook

Reply to elleng (Reply #10)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 08:26 PM

Sep 2015

TexasBushwhacker

(20,185 posts)

14. It keeps suggesting one of my ex-boyfriends n/t

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 09:25 PM

Sep 2015

Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts)

15. Thank goodness my old boyfriends have had the good sense of not starting a

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #14)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 10:26 PM

Sep 2015

Facebook account. They would have turned up on one of my high school buddy's friendlists by now, if they had.

ohnoyoudidnt

(1,858 posts)

16. Is his number in your phone's contact list?

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #14)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 11:55 PM

Sep 2015

FB has made a couple recommendations of people in my contact list. I assume their mobile App goes through the numbers in your phone and recommends accounts linked to those numbers. It also recommended some people I know whose numbers are not in my list who also have no mutual friends. That is a tad freaky.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)

17. Don't access the site. If Facebook makes a friend suggestion and you don't read it......