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Old March 30th 12, 09:20 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Joy wrote:

Speaking of Facebook, is there anybody here who can tell me if it's possible
to send a private message to a "friend"?


Absolutely. Click on their name to bring up their page. When that comes up,
look to the right, on the same line as your friend's name, and you should
see a button labeled "Message". Click on that and a dialog will come up where
you can address a message to that person and send it.

I'd like to go through my list and, if I can't figure out how I know the
person, send them a message that didn't appear on Facebook, asking how I
know them or if they'd mind if I "unfriend" them. I don't want to hurt
anybody's feelings by just "unfriending" to start with.


You can also "hide" someone from your newsfeed, so that they're still your
friend, but you aren't seeing their posts. To do that, click on your own
name, to bring up your wall. On the left side, underneath your photo, there's
a list that has stuff like "info," "photos," "notes," etc. Click on "Friends."
That will bring up your friends list. Then find the name of someone whose
posts you don't want to read. In that row, on the right, there's a button
labeled "Friends." Hover the mouse over that button (you don't have to click),
and you'll see a menu open under the button. In the menu there's an item
"Show in News Feed". It should be checked and bold. Just select that item
to turn that feature off. (It will then be unchecked, not bold.) Note: if
"Show in News Feed" isn't in the list, then select "show all lists" and it
will appear.

I've never done any of these things myself, because the last time I used
FB, which was not that long ago, the procedure for hiding someone's posts
from your newsfeed (while keeping them "friended") was completely different.
In order to write the above, I first had to go through the steps a few
times just to be sure I was telling you the right thing. I give these
instructions about a week before they become outdated. So you might
want to do this soon, before the next batch of unannounced and unexplained
changes is visited on the FB user interface...

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Joyce

Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur,
skin to skin, or -- skin to fur. -- Paul Gallico