Spring Cleaning Tips for Facebook users

Thursday is the first day of spring, and Facebook announced some Spring Cleaning Tips for users who store your external messages , shine their profiles , organize your messages , and get their privacy settings in order.

Spring Cleaning Tips for the social network are:

Clean your news

Have knowledge not listen to seven times a day? Want to see more of your best friends? Modernization and updating of friends listening in managing your settings newsfeed.

• If a state does not want to appear in your news feed, you hover over the top right corner of the message - a drop-down arrow appears.
• Select " Do not follow any of [Sarah Jane] "- messages no longer appear on your News Feed.
• Enjoy more granular control - You can choose to see everything, but nothing major, etc, or you can choose to see all the photos , etc. for people and pages .
• Create a close friends list - make sure to stay in the most important moments of his friends.
• Would you like to see less than others? Create a knowledge -list, which makes it less important updates.
• Create your own lists - create a list of employees, school friends, etc.

Beautify your profile

Put your best foot forward this spring by updating your profile and keep up this momentum.

• Is your profile picture updated? Choose something that has recently been adopted, choose a great photo, and make sure you are!
• Mix your cover and profile picture: Choose a photo for the cover and profile picture, the "Mix" it seems that your profile picture is a part of the cover image.
• Highlight photos of your favorite holidays, life events (wedding, birthday, graduation of his son, etc.), or hobbies (his softball team, his valuable library books or extensive record collection).
• Put your message interesting and exciting updates - Get visual display of thumbnails and photos / videos , add a hashtag to topics in links to convert and click its item "star" articles that you want to see your friends on your timeline.
• It is likely that some of the pages that you do not like to connect with you now. Go to the " on -line time to manage and section "on the sides will find suggestions of sports teams, music, books and movies add to your interests.

Update your messages

It has probably been a while since I reported, communicated on Facebook - these are the daily pings work for you and check what you will be warned, and what you do not like.

• Click on the globe on the top right of your Facebook profile, click on "Settings", then "Notifications".
• Managing e-mail and push notifications on the phone - use e-mail to "only important" notifications and your push notifications Manage your phone to your liking.

Check the privacy settings

It is always a good time to check your privacy settings and make sure they work for you.

• If you check your privacy settings and database tools, you have the ability to control who can contact you. To check friend requests, you can select whether to allow "all" to send an inquiry or restrict only "friends of friends".
• You can also control the messages you want filtered in your inbox "simple search" and "strict filtering". With "Basic Filtering" (the recommended option), you will see messages in your inbox most of the friends and people that you may know. If you select the "Use strict filtering", is mostly seen messages from friends and messages from people who want to hear it can be to move to another folder.
• Set who can see your future posts . You can control who can see what you where you publish to share with the right programmable key with the court. Go to Privacy Settings "," under "Account Settings" and choose "Who can see my future posts?" If you want to do everything you do in public from now on Facebook, select "Public" in the configuration. By selecting the "friends" only your friends can see your future.
• Check your activity log . Activity Log is easy to display the things you have posted on Facebook, changes to the images of the audience from the past and other items, and select what is displayed in the Timeline.

Readers: these tips are helpful? Anything to add?

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