How to Remove the New Annoying Stalker Close Friends Facebook Notifications

Around the last week of May 2012, you might have noticed Facebook launch the “Close Friends” list.   And now you’ve been annoyed by those excessive Close Friend Facebook Notifications after having chosen your “Close Friends.”  How do you get rid of them?  Glad you asked.

Yet another thing Facebook has done to tick us off.  I don’t normally complain, but it seems as though Facebook finds it hard to get things right from a user perspective.  There is no surprise why I prefer using Google+.

Here are the Steps I took to reduce the stalker-ish notifications on everything my close friends are posting on Facebook:

After implementing the following steps my notifications look near the same as they were before I set my close friends.

•  The first thing I did was:  Go to the “Account Settings” and then “Notifications” link as shown below.

• Under Notifications, down the middle of the page, click on the “Facebook” edit link.

•  In that list you will see an option to uncheck “Posts content (Close Friends list only).”  Uncheck that setting.  Then click “Save Changes.”

• You would think that would suffice… But no. There is one more thing to do. In this same “All Notifications” list, go to “Other Updates from Facebook” and click “edit.”

• Next uncheck the boxes “Updates about your friends since you logged in” and “Updates about your friends since you logged in via SMS” as you see below.

That should do most of it. I still found one or two close friends list notifications making it’s way in, but I am waiting another few hours to see if that fully takes care of the annoying updates.

To Turn Notifications from Close Friends Off Completely

Update:  There is also a way to turn the notifications off completely by going to the left hand navigation once you are logged in. You need to be in the “Home” view and then click on “Close Friends.”

Next check towards the top right of that screen, go to “Notifications” and check  “Off.”

Did this help you? Comment below.

About The Author

Dali Burgado, also known as "The Dali Blogger" teaches creative entrepreneurs how to carve a web presence that connects with their Inner Guru and their target audience. Her first online marketing love is SEO. She's an avid connector on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. When she's not coaching or teaching, she's tweaking sites for Search Engine Visibility, working on her PHP and Javascript coding skills, Singing Opera, or learning about gardening. Circle Dali on Google+