How To Clear Facebook Search History

Facebook keeps a track of all previous searches made (searching for people, places, pages and so on) and uses that to suggest and display similar items. This search activity can however be deleted if needed. Here is how : Log in to Facebook and go to the All Activity page here.   Then click on “More” to display the “Search” option. Click on “Clear Searches”...

How To Quickly Block Facebook Users

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Facebook privacy shortcuts provide a quick way to block unwanted contacts. Here is how to do that : Click on the lock icon at top right on Facebook and choose ” How do I stop someone from bothering me?” In the “Add name or email” field, enter the user name or email address to be blocked and hit Enter. This will display all the user names as per criteria, simply click “Block”...

How To Manage Privacy When Posting Facebook Updates

Consider this scenario : You have a lot of Facebook contacts but only want to share status updates / posts with only those who you know. The remaining contacts although still friends need to be limited in access to your Facebook posts. Here is how to do this : Restricted Lists. Go to Facebook, click the inverted triangle and choose “Settings”. From the “Blocking” section, under...

How To Setup Strict Message Filtering In Facebook

The default message filtering in Facebook is set to “Basic”. This means that messages sent to you by those whom you don’t know often show up in your Messages inbox. Here is how to setup strict filtering so that only messages sent by friends and close acquaintances show up in “Messages” while rest go to “Other” inbox : Login to Facebook account and select the...