Facebook is a feature-packed social networking app. If you are not customizing your experience on it even a little bit, you’re sure missing out.
If you are looking for more privacy or just want to take your facebook interface to a superhero mode, there are new tips and tricks available.
Here are the 13 latest Facebook tips that you can see right now to upgrade your social networking experience.
Key Points
1. Remove Your Last Name from Your Facebook Profile
Here is the most important privacy upgrade you can achieve with this little trick.
If you want no other people than your known network or strangers to stay away from looking you and creeping on your profile, this will surely help.
Technically, Facebook requires every user to submit their first and last name while setting up the account for security reason.
Once your account is created, though, you can bypass this and have only your first name on displays on your profile and across Facebook.
First, you’ll need to change your proxy settings. (Note: These instructions are for Google Chrome. See here for Mozilla, See here for others on digitalcitizen.
Click the ellipsis icon with three verticle dots in the upper-right corner of your browser. When you mouse over it, it says Customize and control Google Chrome.
Go to Settings. Scroll all the way to the bottom and click Advanced. Continue scrolling to System > Open proxy settings.
If you’re on Windows, an Internet Properties box should pop up. Go to the Connections tab and click on LAN settings.
A Local Area Network (LAN) Settings box should pop up. Under Proxy Server, check the box for the option Use a proxy server for your LAN.
Enter 36.65.151.31 for the Address and 8080 for the Port (or use any Indonesian proxy settings) and hit OK.
Once your proxy settings are updated, you can go into Facebook to finish up.
On the mobile version of Facebook, Go to Settings >> Language Settings.
Under Language for buttons, titles and other text from Facebook on this device choose Bahasa Indonesian and save.
Wait for Chrome to automatically translate the page back to English. (Or right-click the page and choose to Translate to English.)
- Go to Settings > Personal information > Name. Delete your last name and confirm the changes.
Return to the language settings and switch back to English.
It’s done!
2. Change Your Display Language to ‘Pirate’
If you make your Facebook language to ‘Pirate’, you will see major difference in all words and tabs, Note that there’s also an “Upside down” option if you’re feeling extra whimsical.
To make Facebook display in Pirate-speak:
- Go to Settings >> Language.
Under the Facebook language setting, choose English (Pirate) from the drop-down menu and save.
You’ll see a few major differences immediately.
3. Mute Friends in Your Feed Who Post Too Much
If you think some of your friend’s posts too much and at random, you can simply trick the appearance of their posts.
And you also don’t want to unfriend this person, but you want to see less of their *Random Thoughts and memes on your feed, do this.
In the upper-right corner of one of the offender’s recent posts, click the ellipsis. This gives you options that will help curate your News Feed.
To mute your friend’s posts (i.e., remove them from your feed without unfriending), choose to Hide all from Him/Her.
If you just want a break from their posts, choose Snooze Him/Her for 30 days.
To see fewer posts of this nature in general, choose Hide post and make Facebook’s algorithm smarter to see less of them next time onwards.
4. Make Your Posts Fancier
You can make your posts look little fancier by using fancy fonts and colors, you can use the Cool Fancy Text Generator. Use it to write titles, short blurbs, or make words stand out.
Type your text into the box, choose your style, then copy and paste back into Facebook. You can also add some fun symbols to spruce things up.
5. Visit Your Facebook Townhall
If you would like to get more involved with local politics, visit your Facebook Townhall to find and follow your local government services and representatives.
You can also quickly contact them to get in touch about an issue.
6. Turn Off Birthday Notifications
By default, Facebook notifies you in the morning when it’s one of your friends’ birthdays.
Of course, if you have a big list of friends, this can get annoying.
To turn it off:
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Go to Settings > Notifications.
In the list of settings, find Birthdays and turn it off.
7. Download a Copy of All Your Facebook Data
Yes, mostly everything including.
- Posts and photos you’ve created or shared.
- Comments you’ve posted.
- Messages you’ve sent and received.
- Everything you have ever liked or reacted to.
- Your list of followers and who you’re following.
- Even Pokes you’ve given and received (does anybody do those anymore?) are all stored on Facebook.
If you want a copy of the information from one, a few, or all of these categories, it’s simple:
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Go to Settings > Your Facebook Information > Download Your Information.
Click the checkboxes next to the information categories you’d like to include in your file.
Also, you can filter by date range.
Choose your format (HTML or JSON) and media quality, then click Create File.
8. Block App Invites & Game Requests
Sometimes app invites or game requests are annoying. Say your friend often send you these requests and simply you don’t wish to have them, you can block those invites without knowing them.
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Go to Settings >> Blocking. Scroll to Block app invites.
Enter the name of the friend or relative who has an “invite” trigger habits.
9. Download Entire Facebook Photo Albums from People You Follow
The only way to save the photo album from the party you attended last week is to download each photo one-by-one.
But what if those are too many? instead of wasting time, use a Chrome extension to download entire albums at once from people you’re following.
- Install DownAlbum for Chrome.
- Go to the Facebook photo album you want to download.
- Click the DownAlbum icon in your browser toolbar, then click “Normal”.
A new page will load with the photo album. Hit the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + S to save them all at once.
10. Disable ‘Seen’ Timestamps on Facebook Messages
We know those little timestamps that show up under messages when somebody has seen our messages?
Sometimes, you wish that they don’t know that you have seen their message. It’s agonizing to know your message was ‘seen’ but a person never responded.
This way you get more time to reply without looking rude or causing such social anguish, just disable the seen feature on your end.
- Download the Unseen for Facebook Chrome extension.
Once it’s installed, click the icon in your browser toolbar to make sure it’s turned on.
11. Mute Group Conversations That Are Blowing Up Your Notifications
One of your group chat is on fire? You get really annoying if messages start popping faster but you can’t respond or participate. Instead of flooding messages in your inbox, you can get just mute them and go back later to the catch things up quickly.
To do this:
In the offending message thread, hit the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner.
Choose Mute conversation and stop getting constant notifications.
12. Switch Your News Feed Back to the ‘Most Recent’ View
The recent algorithms have changed the way we see our posts. However, on Facebook, you can go back to the good old’ “most recent” lineup – where posts display in chronological order without any regard for their popularity or supposed relevance.
- On a desktop, go to the left sidebar to News Feed.
- Click the horizontal ellipsis (the three dots).
- Click Most Recent.
13. Save Links to Read Later
It is a common scenario that you are scrolling through your feed at morning and see some posts to be important, but really in hurry of work.
You see two or three links some of your peers shared that look like really good reads, but you don’t have time right now. You can quickly save them to read later the way you do on YouTube Videos.
- Click the ellipsis icon in the top right corner of the post/link you want to save.
- Click Save link.
To access your saved items on the desktop, go to the left-hand sidebar and find Saved under Explore Or just navigate to .
Facebook now also has a handy feature to organize your saves and put them into collections.
This is a great place to save and organize all those interesting posts you feel important for later read the same way you do with Google bookmarks.
Hack Your Way to a Better Facebook
By now you know some of the cool hacks to make your Facebook experience way better than ever before. You are using some of the other cool hacks? Let us know by email or in the below comments. We will surely update our post to make it super perfect for other readers.
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