Facebook's Unfollow Button Replaces 'Hide All' in News Feed

Just because you are Facebook friends with your old lab partner from high school doesn't mean you want to see his posts each day in your News Feed

The social network will soon allow users to "unfollow" friends whose comments and updates they want to remove from their News Feed, according to a Facebook spokesperson

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The new Unfollow button, which was first reported by TechCrunch , will work in the same way that users were able to "hide all" from friends in the past, simply with new phrasing. The idea is that users can block content they don't want to see from their friends without going so far as defriending them Read more...

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via Mashable http://mashable.com/2013/12/02/facebook-unfollow/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss