Temporarily stop messages from Facebook friends

Temporarily stop messages from Facebook friends

Are you a little tired of status updates from a person or organization on Facebook? Turn on the snooze function and you will not see the updates for 30 days.


Not in the mood for grumpy messages from the neighbors? Or does someone suddenly often post the same messages? With the snooze function on Facebook, you will not see any updates from a person for thirty days. That way you don’t have to remove someone as a friend. Good, because in a month’s time the world may look very different again.

  • Go to facebook.com or open the Facebook app.
  • Log in if necessary.
  • Click/tap if necessary Homepage: The icon of a house in the menu.
  • Scroll to a post from the organization or person that annoys you.
  • Click/tap on the three dots of the message.
    Snooze function on Facebook
  • Click.tap in the drop-down window [Naam persoon] Snooze for 30 days.

There are also other ways to hide Facebook messages. You can delete a single message, for example with an annoying image, as explained in the tip ‘Hide message on Facebook’. You can also simply unfriend or even block annoying people. Is it precisely about organizations that make too many messages? Then set that you will see fewer messages from them using the tip ‘Adjust Facebook News Feed’.

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