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As expected, Facebook has just launched an updated version of their feed filters which enables you to stop viewing stories from individual applications. For example in the image to the left, you can choose to block out the Google Reader application from your feed. What I’m not sure about is whether or not hiding an application is just for that individual person for for all instances of that application.
Just yesterday I wrote about how granular feed filters are the future of Facebook’s news feed and this appears to be a step in that direction. For the time time being I believe hiding an application blocks it from all people but it would be nice if we could control this on a more granular level. Also not clear is whether or not you can add an application back to your feed after hiding it.
I will play around with the tool and reach out to Facebook. I’ll then update this post shortly. Thanks to Dan Birdwhistell for first tipping us off about this.
Ahh this is so much better!
I tested out hiding an application and it hid all updates from the person who used that application and after clicking to show the hidden updates, updates from that person are gone and the application updates didn’t come back either.
In fact, it was too much noisy!
Works well for clearing all the quizes, just have to remember to restore your hidden friend for future feeds.
Hey thanks for the info. I appreciate your blog.
… someone know why I DON’T egt real time News Feed, as announced?… Just before “The Change” I got real time “Live Feed”, now it’s gone…. Or is it?
Curious to see how this pans out… also, I think the New Friend notification moved to the right side?
Did you want to remove my shared items from Google Reader?
Whew, glad to hear this!! Um, but how about that Highlight section? It’s a waste of great space… would love to seriously edit or having something altogether different!
Please quit changing things….just when I get used to the new Facebook….
I don’t see that option. I just have the X on the top right corner of the application stories.
Are they slowly rolling this out? Or is it some kind of bucket test?
I’m really looking forward to a way of hiding all the quiz results…
I had it last night but don’t have it today. Looks like they may have rolled the feature back. Perhaps it wasn’t as finely-tuned as they wanted it to be?
Hide Applications have been gone most of the day from the x but Hide [Firstname] has continued.
However they just pushed within last few minutes what seems another update to ‘hide’ on newsfeed (hide firstname) and remove on profile to the style of the new add to list feature when editing friends lists or assigning friendlists when adding a friend.
No visual sign of hide application-name which is the most needed feature which if added could saved them some design swapping with amending attempt 1 to create friend lists and hide applications instead.
Breaking News: Hide Application might be making a comeback with the latest stories from Mesmo TV having a hide MesmoTV option (yay!!)
Question: I hid a friend from my Newsfeed so I wouldn’t have to page through dozens of quiz and application results every day. How do I restore this hidden friend in the future? I don’t see any “unhide” buttons anywhere.
Thanks!
Please help: I can’t find the hide button or relevant help instructions, at all.
this feature is cool… did not notice this before (or they are still rolling it back and forth ) .. found out that hidden feeds can be enabled- click on “Edit Options” at the end of home page, after all the feeds.
Now seems like they have two levels of hiding options: a)feeds from friends and b)feeds from apps
Seems working fine.. my BW and screen real estate are saved
has any one worked out how to unhide a application? looked all over the place still none the wiser. thank you
unhide a application:
‘edit options’ on bottom of page
‘applications’ tab
scroll down the list of hidden apps and click ‘add to news feed’
I don’t want to see who has added a friend and who they are, nor do they want to see what friends I have added. Without mucking things up:
How do I NOT have list of people being added as friends each day? I don’t want to lose seeing everything else. Just don’t care who is adding whom as a friend!
Thanks,
Dee
This was working fine for me until today–Hide apps seems to be gone!! I can only hide a person again!
Have just clicked hide next to a live feed item i have only just posted and ALL my live feed comments are now hidden. How do I undo this so I can share stuff on the live feed wall?? HELP PLEASE
Ok ….
I want to unhide an application and if you go to the edit options it does not give you the option of unhiding or hiding applications. only hiding people.
How do I get my application back?
I accidentally hit the “hide” option on an application I continually use .. I need to “unhide” this application but can’t find a way to do this .. PLEASE HELP.
I accidentally hit the hide button on an application that I need. How do I get it back
This no longer works. It will not hide apps. If I refresh my page they come back!
hid my farmville app from homepage on accident how do i unhide an app tried almost everything please help
To unhide an application, scroll to the bottom of your homepage. There’s a blue box at the bottom that says “Older Posts Edit Options”. Click Edit Options, it pops up a box. In the box, choose Applications. Find the application. Click “Add to News Feed”. Close the box. Enjoy.
How do I “unhide” an application?
Ok everybody, I was having the same problem, but I think I’ve figured it out. All the help files were telling me to go to the bottom of the page where you see “Older Posts” and then click on “Edit Options”. The problem is, the window that popped up would only show me FRIENDS to unhide, not applications. So long story short, at the top left side of the home page where you see a list of your applications, I clicked on one of my other applications (I think it was Christmas Card or something like that). Once the new page opened of news feed for that application, THEN I clicked on edit options at the bottom of the page, and THEN a window popped up that gave me the option to unhide friends AND applications. And then I was able to add Farmville back to my news feed. So for me, clicking on edit options on my home page didn’t work. I had to be in the news feed of another application before clicking on edit options worked. Hope this helps someone!!
Thanks Rachel.. its help for new edit option feature
They no longer have the option in the dropdown to hide the app, it just hides the person themselves! I go to my list and that person is in my block list.
What happened to “Hide this application” option?
Thank you Rachel for letting us know we need to be on an application page and then click Edit Options to unhide. But… mine is blank where it says: The following streams are hidden from your News Feed. Click “Add to News Feed” to see their posts again.
I found another way to unhide applications you accidentally hid.
I’ve tried the above but got a blank page…
When i went to the actual application page like Farmville link is: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=102452128776&ref=search&sid=100000273805588.2672672765..1&v=wall
On the left below the Farmville Icon is REMOVE BLOCK FOR APPLICATION, then you click that and you’re back in business.
Do this for other applications as well.
Good luck - hope I helped
- Kindpeacho
Thanks a lot Rachael Kirk. Your advice worked! I finally restored some applications in the news feed.
Thanks a ZILLION Rachael Kirk! It finally work!
Thank you very much Rachael Kirk! Finally after a lot of browsing, I found the right one! It works! Great!!!
i had to block the app then un block it to get my feeds back but thanks for the info…it was doing my head in
How can Un-hide the applicantion again?
to UNHIDE an application, you go to “see more” on the top left, then click on ANY application. THEN you go to edit options and click on applications. you CANNOT do this on just a regular newsfeed.
I have a psycho friend who makes inappropriate comments …I want to hide her on Facebook because if I de-friend or block her she will flip out. If I hide her will others still be able to see her posts on my page or is she “hid” from everybody. I hope she is “hid” from everybody.
Had some rude or ugly comments posted by others on my page. I didn’t think to remove them and pushed Hide instead. How can I undo - Hide? I don’t want to loose friends, because of their uglyness. Please help.