oh no
oh that's okay
ah that's the worst
never again oh my gosh if you're like me you
are struggling with seeing some of the things in your facebook news
feed and don't you wish there was a way
that you could take control of your news feed
and what you see and what you don't see on facebook well
hello beautiful people it's your girl Grammie
aka Ms. Ileane and today i'm going to help you to
take control of your facebook news feed if you're tired of seeing
all those memes and all that content that you don't even really care about
you wonder sometimes why you're even following a certain person that you
probably don't even remember ever being friends
with and you just want a quick way
to just give your newsfeed a facelift
you know you probably also have some folks that you're friends with
but they're they're posting all kinds of content
that you're not interested in at all and so you kind of wish you could just
you know like put the more mute but you don't want to
like unfriend them because they're still your friends
and you know maybe it's just for a certain amount of time
that you really just you know want to ignore
what they have to say so the first thing i want you to do is pull
out your phone go ahead and pull out your phone
and I want to say hi to my friend Fraser Ramsey who's here ramsay unleashed
and yes Hey Wawa Queen yeah I had my wawa coffee today
and so i want you to pull out your phone i'm going to
bring mine up as well and we're going to go into right now i'm actually using the
iphone and i'm going to show you how you can
adjust your settings on your facebook newsfeed okay got your phone out
you're ready to go okay so here we go at the
bottom on the bottom right hand side you'll see those those
three lines we call that the hamburger menu
okay so click on the hamburger menu
and from the hamburger menu you're going to scroll
up and you know do this along with me okay i'm going to go slow so you're
going to go to settings and privacy
and then you're going to click on settings
click on settings now facebook really has so many settings
and this is why i wanted to share this with you because
it's kind of hidden like if you didn't know where to go step by step
you'd be totally lost all right so the next thing we're going to do is
scroll down some I'm going to go past all this stuff
and keep going keep going keep going now you're going to see
shortcuts and I'm going to come back to shortcuts
in a minute because I got a trick for you
before we go I'm going to tell you what you can do with shortcut
shortcut bar but now we're going to go into the news feed
settings news feed settings which is also known
as news feed preferences why it has to have two names i don't
know all right so here we go wow
this screen looks promising doesn't it hi Sammy Sammy Superstar is here this
screen looks promising because right away you see even facebook is
letting you know that you can take control
and customize your news feed and so the first thing you're going to
do is prioritize who you see first
so let's really go into that because i think that's super important
there's certain people that you just don't want to ever miss their content
you know like it could be yours truly it could be my Facebook page we'll see
let's go and to prioritize who you see first
probably going to want to see your close friends
and family now also i want to mention that you know facebook has their
algorithm and so a lot of times what they'll do is
when you're constantly engaging with someone hey jess sampson
when you're constantly engaging with someone
all right even if you're thumbing down their content or giving
them a sad face or whatever because you can't actually thumb down
facebook still takes that as a signal that you're interested in that person's
content and it may be that you really would wish
that you wouldn't see that person's content anymore
okay but also there's an algorithm around facebook pages we know that right
so what's important here is even though you've liked someone's
facebook page that doesn't mean that you're going to
see their content okay but here if you have
a page that you really want to make sure you see their content is super important
then you want to tap that and give that a star so for example my
Ecamm Live friends I definitely want to know when the folks
from ecamm network that's the software that i'm using right now by the way
it gives me this cool little picture and picture on the side here
and so i want to make sure i see first whenever they post
something okay so and then my friend fraser ramsay he's here
so i have got tap on him as well right so you just go through now sort of
this one is sort of a wasted one here right here where the one that's at
the very bottom the yellow one that says bts
that's better than success that is my daughter Nicole Purvy
and you see her there over above I don't need to see the content from
better than success first because most of the time I'm the
one who's posting the content the same way I don't need to see first
things from my page which go up back up to the top row you see my
one at the in the middle there at the top
why did i need to see that first i'm already the one who's posting this stuff
right so we're going to turn off see first on bts which is Better Than
Success okay so now we've done we're all done with c first
oh Richard Clarkson is here hey he's calling me Grammie yes
all right so we're going to say done so really quickly
because Richard just came and i just want to make sure that everybody has
that all what you need to do is you go to the hamburger menu down at
the bottom right now if it's in another location you know
facebook does tend to move things around so whenever you're watching this video
what you need to do is look for that hamburger menu
so you go into the hamburger menu you scroll up you're gonna look
for settings and privacy and then settings all right scroll
past a lot of stuff and like i said whenever you're watching this video
facebook may change the look of this but you're still going to look for that
same thing which is news feed settings
okay is everybody with me all right so now here's the gold
here's the gold here's where you've got someone who you're friends with
let's just say it's uh one of someone you grew up with you know
you really love this person you just can't stand the stuff they post on
facebook it's just not you're not interested in
it it's annoying to you or
you know whatever the case may be
so you don't want to unfriend them because you know
they'll see like you're in the same groups with that person
and if they you know ever try to reach out to you or something like that
they'll see that you've unfriended them and you don't want that to happen
unfollow people to hide their posts the second thing you see there
oh this is gold this is gold folks okay because what happens is
even though it says unfollow people i want you to take note pay close
attention that there are people on here as well as
groups and pages so you literally
can like and follow a page but then come in here and say hide their
posts i don't know i don't know why people
would do that i think this is more effective for maybe
groups maybe you've joined a group you don't
want to leave the group but maybe just right now is not the time
maybe somebody in the group is running a promo they've got a book
launch coming out or something like that you're just like
i'm tired of hearing about this book right so you just
hide that way you're still in the group you want to check in you
can seek it out on your own i'll show you
how to do that that's where the shortcuts bar comes in
all right so you can go ahead and unfollow
so what i'll do is i'll just scroll scroll
and you'll see that
there's going to be folks that show up on here
that you're saying to yourself why am i even connected with that person
i don't even remember them now in this particular case i know
that this friend of mine has more than one profile
and they're not using this profile anyway
and so i probably you know i could just go ahead and say unfollow
because technically and here's another ninja tip for you technically
any time you send someone a friend request
you're following them so even if they don't accept your request
you're still following them i know you probably didn't know that did
you so yeah there's a way you can go in here
and find out if there's people that you sent friend requests to
that didn't uh accept your request too so you can unfollow those folks
but if you happen to see them here you just go ahead and
unfollow them now here up here it says search for people
and pages and so you could just type and and i'll just type in another one of my
pages
uh it didn't show up so i probably already unfollowed it
let's try something else
um let's see i'll just unfollow another page
oh this here's a group i'll unfollow my own group
all right even though like i said you know i can come back in here and
turn it back on but i'll unfollow my own group
how sad is that i just wanted to demo that to you guys that it's not just
people in here even though facebook says that it's
people and you actually can sort
all right i want to just see that really quickly
and i'm going to put this comment up on screen
i can highlight a person but there is nothing to allow me to unfollow the
person i'm on android wow i didn't realize that
android was that different are you sure if you tap
on that person that it won't unfollow them this this
feature should be on andrew to android as well especially if you follow
that same path that i just went through
and sammy's laughing at me saying how sad it is that i'm following my own
group okay but
i want you to also see that people you see the most
is what's at the top wait a minute hang on let me
let me go back to the top so facebook is already telling you these
are the people that you see the most but remember
it says people but that also includes groups and pages
okay so let's tap on something else here's
another one of my groups didn't want to unfollow that but when
you scroll up a little then that's when you
see that search window so you can start searching for somebody
your richard says he's on the exact same page
it puts a circle around them yes and that's when
that's how you know you've unfollowed them let me show you
let me show you one more time i'm going to have to pick all right so i'm going
to unfollow this facebook group
so this is a group for my patrons and it did put a circle around it but did you
notice that up at the bottom a little
thing scooted up there that says you unfollowed it i'm going to do it one
more time now i'm going to tap on the yellow icon
which is my daughter's page right but i want you
to look at the very bottom of the phone way down at the bottom
way down at the bottom of the phone you're going to see a little thing that
slides up that says you've unfollowed okay so check that out
richard all right so i'm just going to tap
you unfollow better than success and it gives you a split second there to
tap on undo so if you've tapped on people
you've already unfollowed them all right and so you know facebook makes this so
tricky this is another reason why i am sharing this with you guys
all right because first of all it's hard to find
and as you can see that interface is not like the most intuitive
interface you know you don't even realize that you've actually
unfollowed something until
now if you really look closely where it says better than success it
says unfollowed now i'm going to tap on that again now
it says i'm following and i'm going to tap back on my group again
to get it back now it says you are following
did you see that popping up there and my work in focus group
i'm going to tap on that again to bring it back okay
so other things that i unfollowed and i'll just have to watch this video back
and make sure i didn't unfollow something that i really need to
follow all right so yeah and i love oh here we
go my other group my patrons group
which is ileane.live okay so i'm glad i didn't uh unfollow any
people by mistake but i could like i said
i can go through here and there may even be some
pages now here's the deal why would you follow a page
you know because facebook is is kind of wavering now
about the the naming conventions that they're using
okay because you can oh for years was always you could like a page
and then once you like the page you became a fan of the page
then they kind of start saying get away with that word fans
but yet sometimes you know they use it
oh facebook i tell you
but um now that you can also follow a page so you could have
liked a page before and you really want to see that page's
content but guess what if you're not following
them there's a slim chance and even though uh for example i showed
you earlier that i have prioritized who to see first
and i did click on a few pages there let me bring back this phone screen
share i did click on a few pages there
you know like adventure social uh shout out to John Erik Moseler from
Adventure Social he is one of the folks that is like my guru
to keep me up to date with what's going on with all these changes with facebook
and uh even though i have him on See First I know I don't always see that content
first because John Erik has done something really
brilliant that i always recommend for you guys to
do as well he also has an email list so he'll usually send out some type of
an email or a text a messenger alert when something really
big is going on and i don't always see it in my news
feed so there's there's a another ninja tip i
threw in there just make sure that
when you do have a page that you're also building your email list
and you know you can do that for free with Aweber
i'll throw that in there too so you just go over to
ileane.link/aweber all right to get started with with this
building okay so i just love
love love let's go back into um unfollow people to hide their posts
i just love love love that i can do this or that we can do this and
not offend our friends because as far as they know
we're still friends and they may wonder and they may even post something that
they know like i know this is just gonna get Ileane's attention she's gonna see
this and she's gonna be so upset no I won't
now I won't see it okay so just keep that in mind um
and also remember that you know some of your friends may have found or
they may have watched this video well you know if you even if you
know someone who needs to see this video now would be
a great time to go ahead and share it out
so that uh um they can get take advantage of it okay
so all right so the next thing i want to show you and
i thought i promised you that i was going to come back to this
and that is something called the shortcuts bar
all right um oh before we go to the shortcuts bar
let's just go over the other things that are here on this
screen you can reconnect with people you unfollowed i'm not going to tap on that
because then you're going to see everybody that i actually unfollowed
and you know it could it could be someone who's watching this video not
anybody who's in the room now though you guys are all my best buds all right
and then there's a snooze settings because you know
sometimes something will happen right away and
you'll say snooze that particular person but this you can come in here
and manage those settings and maybe you want to unsnooze someone
or something like that but what i like about
doing it this way is that you can manage that whole
concept of your news feed at one time not just
you know the day that somebody said something that you didn't like
or just bored you to tears or got on your nerves or whatever
all right so then there's also apps that you can hide from the newsfeed
okay uh i probably have some games and things
that i've hidden i'm gonna have to look at that when i'm not screen sharing
because I don't want to offend anybody and that's the whole point
is this is your news feed and facebook is giving you control
over it and even though like i said you've been connected
you've liked pages and all that good stuff
it's giving you this extra setting here that you can actually hide
stuff that you don't want to see okay so with that said let's go back to
what i promised you that i would show you
and that is the shortcuts shortcuts
does anybody know what shortcuts are i'm not going to quiz you i'm going to
go ahead and tell you the little icons across the bottom of
the screen so you see i have the home button i have
the video button which is actually face videos on facebook watch then i have the
groups then i have the pages and the
notification bell well let me just say the notification
bell is something that there's nothing you can do about that
notification bell that's going to be there no matter what
but we can go into once again facebook with their names all right it's
called shortcuts but this is called a shortcut bar i don't know why
why can't they call it the shortcuts bar whatever
that's facebook what can i tell you so if i wanted to remove an icon from the
bottom let's just say i wanted to remove
uh or you know what i'll add it back i'll add back marketplace
i've never actually conducted any business on facebook marketplace
and so and i'm not saying that i would never want to do it
you never know i mean you know first of all
i have i got a ton of stuff i probably could be selling over there
have any of you guys ever used facebook marketplace i would love
love love to know let me know in the comments
if you've ever even looked for something in facebook marketplace
so I've got it toggled off but let's toggle it on
when you turn on a shortcut it may not immediately become available
in your shortcut bar so looks like we got to wait for a minute but let's just
go back to the pages
and let's go here and let's okay so it may take a minute for it to show back
up but i don't want to share
um anyone's privacy all right so let's get back into it so let's go to
the Hamburger menu
and so it's there okay so let's turn off uh videos on watch
now that disappeared immediately did you guys see that
it disappeared from that row immediately let's put it back because i
actually like to watch videos on watch that's where i show up and it came back
right away now um let's just turn off the groups
now i love my facebook groups in fact that's where i spend most of my time on
facebook is either on my page or in my groups
so I'm definitely putting that one back I'm gonna put that back right now
so it's just a shortcut way to get to these different items on
Facebook and uh so let me just come back on full
screen and just see if it changes up while
I'm away and yeah so there you have it there's you know how you can take
control of your news feed on
facebook and so we'll just do a real quick
recap of the steps you go to the hamburger menu
settings and privacy then settings then scroll down past a bunch of other
stuff a bunch of other stuff I'm just bit my
tongue and look for news feed settings
aka news feed preferences why it needs two names i don't know
facebook likes to confuse us but it's the same thing they equal the
same thing
prioritize who you see first unfollow people to hide their posts actually more
than just people's pages and groups as well as your friends
ninja tip when you send someone a friend request
you're automatically following them whether they friend you back or not
so you may notice that you have a lot of followers
and wonder where those followers are coming from
that's all those requests that you've turned down
because you you're vetting your you are trying to um train your timeline
right so you get sometimes you get random
requests i'll tell you a little story I got one the other day
and i got a friend request and i saw that this person was friends
with some of my friends that i'm that i'm good with
okay and you know i looked at their timeline and
it was they had a little salesy stuff on there
but for the most part it seemed pretty okay
all right so I accepted the request because I know
I know all the ninja tips i know how to get it going there i could
accept his friend request and yeah his it was a he that's important
for me to tell you the next part and so i could accept that friend
request and go right in there in those settings that i just showed you
and say hide
and he would never know right
two days later it may not have been two days it may be the next day
his wife sends me a friend request so i said oh i see how this is like tag
teaming or something but her timeline
was not the kind of content that i'm interested in
seeing on any social media not just facebook
and so i quickly unfriended him and deleted her request now both of them
unless they've gone in here and hid me or
unfollowed me both of them now are following me
so they're seeing my content lucky for them i don't post a lot
on my um on my timeline so
no just just a little tidbit that i wanted to share with you
that you know you are following anyone that you send a friend request
to whether they accept your friend request or not
and there is a place in here and if i can find it really quickly
I will
and um I believe it's under when you edit your
you know Facebook has so many settings guys
that i'm not i'm actually not going to go in here
and try to figure that out but i do want to go back
and look at under the news feed settings apps that i've hidden and okay
good i'll show you an app that i've hidden
let's go back and so you see how i did that
and um I you know i think back in the day maybe
four or five years ago I had requests from people always
wanting me to play a specific game with them
well i'm not really a gamer you know i might play
a game of cards irl meaning in real life if we're together in the
same room I've never actually played cards on
online at all um i like to play a good game of
pinochle which i haven't played in ages because
my friend Mr Rodney he doesn't play all right he plays a couple other games
though so um here is an app that i've hidden
so long ago oh three years ago it tells me
I've hidden this app which was called spades plus
because people were were hot for that game three years ago
and I kept getting invitations to play spades plus with different people and
there's nothing against those folks i just said you know what i
don't want to see any more requests from spades plus and it might have been
a fun game it's just not my thing okay so
you can hide apps as well because i'm sure that's happened to you
before you've gotten game requests and I think there's
probably another setting in here that I just completely said don't ever
send me any game no no gaming it's not my thing
not to do on my phone nothing against gaming
just not a phone thing for me okay so there you have it guys I showed you
all about the shortcuts bar or shortcuts in addition to
how to control take control of your news feed so
for more Facebook tips you can watch one of the videos that I have linked up on
the screen here and head over to my Facebook page
which is Ms Ileane Speaks and with that as
always stay beautiful