This is a quick tutorial to explain how to see Facebook posts only from your friends and pages you follow. Here I will talk about a simple Chrome extension, Friends Feed. This extension automatically filters the useless irrelevant posts from your news feed so that there will be posts only from the sources you follow. After adding it to Chrome, it will filter content from Facebook like ads in the sidebar, people you may know, sponsored posts, popular across friend liked xyz, friend was tagged in xyz, friend commented on xyz post, etc. It removes all the stories like these to refine your Facebook feed. However, as in now it is not able to filter “Sponsored posts” but it will be fixed soon.
If you have a messy Facebook news feed and the actual stories from your friends and your favorite pages get lost then you can use this extension. It will automatically filter the news feed for you and clear the junk. It filters all the irrelevant stories from Facebook news feed. And there will be mostly stories from your friends and pages that you follow. If you want more control over news feed then you can use some other Chrome extensions along with it to filter news feed by keywords.
How to See Facebook Posts Only from your Friends and Pages you Follow?
Friends Feed is a simple extension which you can use. It is not necessary to hide the irrelevant content from news feed. You can also opt to fade that. And this way, you will know what this extension is actually filtering from your feed. But if you just want to get rid of the other posts from your friends and pages then you can simply use the hide option.
Install Friends Feed from Chrome store and then refresh Facebook. There is nothing you have to configure in it to use this extension. After installing, you can start browsing Facebook as you do normally and then you will feel that the posts your are seeing are mostly from your friends and pages you follow.
There are two options to use this extension. You can opt to hide the stories which are not relevant. Or, you can opt to simply fade them. And you can do that from the “options” page of the extension. Just right-click on its icon from the toolbar and then from the Options menu you can choose what you want.
That’s how this simple Chrome extension works to filter your news feed. You can easily remove all the unnecessary posts from your feed that usually hides stories from your friends. And this Chrome extension can greatly help you to bring those back.
You may also like:
The Verdict
This extension, Friends Feed is a simple and powerful Chrome extension that you can use. And I really liked the fact that you can either opt to fade the unnecessary posts or hide them permanently. This is a good plugin for you if posts from your friends and pages often gets mixed in the other unrelated posts. So, if you are looking for ways to get rid of those posts then simply try this extension.
