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How To De-clutter And Simplify Your Facebook Wall


Facebook Wall is a powerful tool: it lets you stay in touch with hundreds of people all over the world and keep up-to-date with what they are up to and what they share. With it being such an important tool, it is quite clear why it has been tweaked so many times throughout the life of the social network.
You can see lots of things at a glance once you enter your Facebook dashboard: your friends’ current mood and thoughts, your friends’ new friends, your friends’ photos, etc; as well as your new potential friends, your friends’ upcoming events and lots of other things. With so much information stuffed into one page, it is easy to get lost. With Facebook killing default wall filters while quietly introducing new wall settings, seeing what you actually want becomes almost impossible.

Would you like to have more power over your wall? The following user scripts will help you to tweak your Facebook wall to de-clutter and simplify it!
Note: All the three user scripts listed here to declutter Facebook have been tested on FireFox (through Greasemonkey). They should also work on Google Chrome.

1. Simplified Facebook

Simplified Facebook adds a new box to your Facebook wall that enables you to easily filter out certain updates from your wall:
  • Remove likes,
  • Remove new friendships,
  • Remove applications,
  • Remove links,
  • Remove photos,
  • Remove applications.
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2. Remove Facebook Right-Column

Remove Facebook Right-Column: While the above script lets you filter out irrelevant updates from your stream, this one lets you move focus to your wall updates. It removes the right column that contains pokes, events, “People you may know” and other things that clutter your home page:
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3. Better Facebook

Better Facebook is the most advanced script of all reviewed here. Whether it makes Facebook experience simpler or more complicated is for you to decide but some of its options do turn really effective to declutter your Facebook home page:
1. Use powerful feed filters to remove certain updates from your wall. Better Facebook “Feed filter” feature gives you access to multiple options which can change your Facebook stream completely. For example, you can:
  • Hide / minimize / move / apply certain CSS to… all updates from any friend of yours (to stop hearing from him without “un-friending”);
  • Hide / minimize / move / apply certain CSS to… all updates of a certain type (links, notes, friends tagged in a video or photo, application updates, etc, etc)
  • Hide / minimize / move / apply certain CSS to… all updates from a certain application;
Mind that using filters may slow down Facebook while posts are being processed. Using many filters may cause increased slowdown on slower computers.
2. Easily remove certain boxes: Better Facebook allows you to disable many of the boxes that appear in the right sidebar, including those that Better Facebook adds itself:
  1. Just clicking the “X” to remove any panels you no longer want to see.
  2. You can also click the header title of any box in the right panel to “collapse” it without removing it completely!
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3. Mark as read and /or mute certain updates: if some of the threads seem to be taking too long or you just want to mark something as read to archive it, use the tool’s Gmail-like “Mute” and “Mark as Read” options available for each individual post as well as for all the visible threads via the control panel:
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