{"id":9244,"date":"2017-09-14T22:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-snooze-button-temporarily-hides-people-in-your-feed-2.html"},"modified":"2017-09-14T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:10:16","slug":"facebook-snooze-button-temporarily-hides-people-in-your-feed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-snooze-button-temporarily-hides-people-in-your-feed-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u2018Snooze\u2019 button temporarily hides people in your feed"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sick of a friend\u2019s non-stop vacation photos? Bored of hearing about some business Page\u2019s big launch? One of your groups won\u2019t shut up about their upcoming get-together? Now Facebook has a Snooze button that lets you temporarily unfollow friends, Pages or Groups for 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.<\/p>\n

The Snooze button could deter people from permanently unfollowing, unliking or unfriending things on Facebook while still giving them control over what they see. Facebook benefits from you maintaining a dense social network, whether for ad targeting or just surfacing an important life update from a distant acquaintance. So now when you\u2019re annoyed with someone or something, you can solve the problem without severing the connection.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch spotted Snooze this morning on Facebook\u2019s desktop site in the U.S., and we are awaiting comment from the company about the status of the feature.<\/p>\n

[Update 11:30am PT: A Facebook spokesperson confirms it\u2019s testing the Snooze feature, telling TechCrunch\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re testing new ways to give people control over their News Feeds so they can stay connected with the stories they find most relevant.\u201d]<\/p>\n

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To Snooze someone, tap the drop-down arrow in the top right of someone\u2019s post. Now instead of just an unfollow option, there\u2019s \u201cUnfollow or Snooze.\u201d Tap that, and you can choose whether you want to Snooze someone for a day, a week, a month or permanently unfollow them.<\/p>\n

Facebook has been trying to settle in on the best way to let you control the News Feed without being confusing. In 2012 it offered a \u201cSee Less\u201d<\/a> option on friends\u2019 profiles. But eventually Facebook found this was puzzling for users, since they\u2019d still see that person in their feed, so it wasn\u2019t clear if the option actually did anything. By 2014, Facebook had dropped \u201cSee Less\u201d in favor of a definitive \u201cUnfollow\u201d button<\/a> that let you stay friends but banish them from your feed.<\/p>\n

With Snooze, it\u2019s found a way to decrease the noise from a chatty person, group or Page in a way that\u2019s obvious and intuitive, but doesn\u2019t prohibit Facebook from showing you their most important posts further down the line.<\/p>\n

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Pages and Groups may benefit from Snooze, as it could reduce the chances of someone unliking or leaving them. But it also should inspire them not to overshare or spam, otherwise they could be put in time-out.<\/p>\n

Facebook already constantly modulates how much you see of someone based on implicit signals, like if you Like, click, comment on or share their posts. It will surely use Snoozing as a signal that it should show you less of someone when they\u2019re allowed to reappear. But if we\u2019re going to spend so much of our lives browsing the News Feed curated by Facebook\u2019s faceless algorithm, it\u2019s nice to see the company equip us humans with more than just binary controls.<\/p>\n

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