How To Stop Those Annoying Facebook Notifications On Statuses You Don’t Care About

We’ve all been there before: you drop a comment on a friend’s latest Facebook status and immediately dismiss it from your mind. Then the notification alerts start rolling in about other people’s comments on the same status: Every. Single. Time.

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This can quickly become irritating; especially when it comes to birthday/wedding/newborn statuses which tend to amass hundreds of dull comments. It can literally take days for those little red icons to stop appearing. Thankfully, there’s a way to switch off Facebook notifications for individual statuses and photos. Here’s how it’s done:

Step 1:

Open the Facebook Notifications bar and hover your cursor over the status/photo you’re sick of hearing about. An opaque cross will appear. Click on it.

Step 2:

You’ll then receive a prompt to turn off notifications for that particular status or photo. Click ‘Turn Off’.

Step 3:

That’s it! You can turn the notification back on at any time.

The benefit of this method is that you’ll continue to receive notifications for all other statuses; including the person you blocked — you just won’t receive notifications for that one individual post. I find this is especially handy if you were foolhardy enough to comment on a status about the 2014 Budget. Ain’t nobody got time for that!


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