Social Fixer Archives - Rick's Daily Tips

Do you use Facebook on a laptop or desktop computer?

If so, you’re probably familiar with one or more of these common annoyances:

You keep seeing the same ads over and over again, many (or even most) of which might even be scams

Political posts (and the arguments they generate) get your blood boiling

You receive an important message from someone who isn’t on your friends list but Facebook hides it from you by placing it in the “New Message Requests” folder

One of your Facebook friends “unfriends” you but you don’t find out about it until much later because Facebook didn’t let you know that your friend had unfriended you

All of these annoyances (and many more) have irritated me at one time or another, and I’m guessing they’ve irritated you as well. [Read more…]

Facebook is a wonderful service that makes it easy to keep in touch with family and friends, but as we all know, using it can be an exercise in frustration at times.

One of the biggest frustrations for many Facebook users is how the newsfeed keeps getting switched from “Most Recent” to “Top Stories”.

Unfortunately, toggling the newsfeed from “Top Stories” to “Most Recent” seems to only work for a little while. Before you know it, you’re back to looking at Facebook’s list of “Top Stories”, whether you want to or not.

But guess what? There’s now an easy way to make your newsfeed stay on “Most Recent”, and after testing it for several days I can tell you that it works like a charm! [Read more…]