You get to see quite a bit of it when you scroll through your timeline from Facebook. We show you how you can determine this a little more yourself.
Determine what you get to see on Facebook
In general you manage yourself through a jungle of random messages, advertising and messages from friends. In practice, this means so many scrolling that you would get RSI from it. Fortunately, you can still exert some influence on it. We show you how!
Reduce specific advertising
Advertisers use your information to show specific advertising on Facebook. You can see which advertising topics advertisers use to reach you. It is not possible to turn off the whole. But with this you can reduce certain advertising. The setting is tucked away quite far, but by following the steps below you can still access it.
- Tap at the bottom right of the Facebook app on the menu button and choose ‘Settings’;
- Choose ‘Meta Account Center’;
- Scroll something down and tap ‘Advertising approval’;
- Tap ‘Advertising topics’ and ‘View and manage topics’;
- Tap the subject you want to adjust the setting and choose ‘Show less’.
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Only see posts of your friends on Facebook
When you open the Facebook app, the homepage is full of advertisements and other messages that the site thinks you should see. Messages from friends and other people you follow are sometimes hidden between all advertising.
There is a way to see the messages of the people you follow on Facebook. That also makes this tip one of the best tips for Facebook on your iPhone that we can give.
An additional advantage is that you also run less risk of accidentally tapping an advertising message. And with that Facebook gives more food to send your personal advertisements.
- Tap the menu at the bottom right;
- At the top of the screen are different buttons, tap ‘overviews’;
- Choose ‘Messages’ and tap ‘Friends’ underneath;
- Now you almost only get the messages from the people you follow.
Of course you will see that Facebook still stops some advertising between the messages, but it is much clearer than the regular overview.
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