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This wikiHow teaches you how to see fewer posts on your news feed from a friend or someone you follow. You can unfollow or snooze them temporarily to stop seeing their posts, or you could unfriend them to remove them as a friend completely.
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Open Facebook. Navigate to https://www.facebook.com/ on a browser, or open the Facebook app on your phone or tablet. -
Search for the person you wish to unfollow. Type their name into the search bar at the top, then select their name in the results to navigate to their profile.Advertisement -
Click or tap the Friends icon under the cover photo to the right. It looks like a person with a checkmark. -
Select Unfollow . You will now stop seeing their posts on your news feed. If you are friends, you will remain friends.- This icon will not appear if you are not friends with them. Instead, click the button that says Unfollow .
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Open Facebook. Navigate to https://www.facebook.com/ on a browser, or open the Facebook app on your phone or tablet. -
Scroll through your news feed as normal. Your news feed is the home page of Facebook that contains posts from your friends, groups, and pages. -
Click or tap the three dots … on a post. Chose a post made by the person you want to see less of. The dots will be at the top-right corner of the post. -
Select Snooze ... for 30 days . This will temporarily stop this person from appearing on your news feed for 30 days. If you are friends, you will remain friends.- You can also choose to unfollow someone from this menu instead of snoozing them for 30 days by selecting Unfollow . This stops their posts permanently from appearing on your news feed.
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Open Facebook. Navigate to https://www.facebook.com/ on a browser, or open the Facebook app on your phone or tablet. -
Search for the person you wish to unfriend. Type their name into the search bar at the top, then select their name in the results to navigate to their profile. -
Click or tap the Friends icon under the cover to the right. It looks like a person with a checkmark. -
Select Unfriend . This will remove this person as a friend from Facebook.- You will no longer see their posts, and may not be able to view their timeline, depending on their privacy settings.
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1. Open Facebook on your device.
2. Search for the person you wish to unfollow.
3. Click or tap on their name.
4. Click or tap on the Friends icon on their profile, and select Unfollow
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