** To none Facebook users: This post iwas meant to be imported by Facebook and is posted here for benefiting Facebook users outside my friend circle. Sure it's not targeting most geek users. **
Many people send you forwarded "blah blah Wall" garbage ? or does any other application keep adding meaningless entries to your mini-feed (the part of your profile that lists your latest news/actions) ??
Then these entries stay there until you login and remove each entry manually by hovering (pointing) your mouse over the entry, use the link "x" that appears then and click that link.
It's easy to prevent these from originally showing up in an automatic way without completely removing the application.
Steps:
- On the top right of Facebook, click "privacy" to go to the "Privacy Overview" page.
- From that page, click "News Feed and Mini-Feed".
- In the "News Feed and Mini-Feed Privacy" page, check the right part of the page, look for a link that says "Edit Applications" (it shows in relatively small font size). Click that link
Note: You can skip steps from 1 to 3 by going directly to
http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php
- From "Edit My Applications" page you reach either by going through steps 1 to 3 or using the previous URL, you'll find a list of all Facebook applications you have and a link "Edit Settings" in front of each. Find the application you want to remove its entries from mini-feed, and click the link "Edit Settings" next to that application.
- Step 4 will show a modal pop up (new part of the page that appears on top of everything else) that allows you to edit different settings for that application. One of these settings is " Publish stories about this in my Mini-Feed.", click on that to uncheck the check box (empty the right mark) next to it.
- (Optional) Check the pop up for any other settings you might love to change as well.
- Finally click "Save" and continue your Facebook journey :).
Note that the same contents of the modal pop up appear to you when you try to add a new application. It's just that most of us ignore reading these and proceed to the application with the default settings.
I hope this helps somebody. For me it helped me get rid of mini-feed entries for the pollution that comes through so many many people via a certain popular Wall application. Maybe I'll post about that later!
** Feel free to share this note with others !! **
But DO NOT send the link to it via messages or emails, otherwise, you'd be SPAMMING (sending unexpected mails without excuse- which is not allowed by all world wide mail systems). To read more about how you can be SPAMMING others without realizing it, read my other article:
http://geekswithblogs.net/Mohamed/archive/2006/08/29/89571.aspx