Manage Facebook Algorithms to read the main posts first

The order in which posts are presented on the Facebook homepage is governed by its algorithms which, based on a person’s reading habits, first present the news of some friends rather than others.
While those with few friends may not need to manage Facebook algorithms, those who have more than 300 and follow different pages and groups, may instead find it boring having to read uninteresting posts, without finding instead what their closest friends publish or those people you trust most.
This algorithm is somewhat similar to the one used by Google to establish the order of results in searches.
Some friend updates are considered more important than others, for example an uploaded photo is presumably the most important of the change of sentimental status, while others end up at the bottom and, if you have a lot of friends, it will be difficult for them to be read.
Many factors influence what appears in the Facebook news stream but, mainly, we could extract two definitely determining factors:
1) The posts we spend more time on (Facebook measures the time you spend looking at a post or a photo)
2) Posts from friends with whom you interact more through comments and reactions such as the Like.

To choose the main news to read first hiding instead the updates and posts that we like less, you can use some tools that allow you to manage Facebook algorithms and, over time, to have an engaging and interesting flow of more relevant and certainly true news.

1) Stop following
Stop following those who publish fake news or too extreme political news
We all have at least one friend who unleashes his black soul on social media, revealing himself different from how we know them, who vent anger and resentment by always publishing negative messages or news from extremists that are often not even true.
Even if the temptation to remove the friendship can be strong, it would still be unpleasant to do so, especially if we see this friend often.
Much easier and more discreet, therefore, is to stop following him without letting him know (that he is no longer followed is not warned about this).
To do this, go to the person’s profile and press the “Follow already“to select option”Don’t follow anymore“.
In addition, if you want to make sure that he too sees little of what we share, you can click on Friends and select the option Acquaintances, special category to organize less important friends.
Finally, it should be noted that it is also possible to put these people on a restricted list, which can become practically like unfriending, but without letting them know.

1 BIS) If desired, it is also possible to make a temporary choice.
Instead of unfollowing someone, you can use the option that follows pauses, in order to hide someone’s posts from Facebook for 30 days.
This can be particularly useful, for example, in the period before political elections or after a football match that has made us suffer.
To find this option you have to press the button with three lines that appears in the post on the homepage.

2) Show first
In the case of close friends or people whose opinion is highly respected or even particularly attractive friends of whom you do not want to lose even a photograph, then you can choose, by pressing the Follow Already button, the option Show first.
If you want to keep these friends first in order of importance, they can be added to the list of friends closest friendsby clicking on the Friends button in their profile.

3) News preferences
As seen in the past, it is possible to activate or deactivate these options, the “unfollow” and the “Show first” on Facebook in the news section preferences
From these settings it is possible to find the list of friends and quickly choose the ones whose posts you want to read and which ones you prefer to keep hidden.
The preferences menu now has four options: see the news with priority, unfollow people, restore contact with people not followed, find new pages.
The first option, that of news to read first, allows you to select pages and people that you always want to see first in the News.
You can select up to 30 accounts whose latest updates will always appear first in the feed.
Messages and updates from these accounts are marked with a star to remind you that you have selected them as a priority.
These settings are precisely those intended to manage the Facebook algorithms and are valid both for friends and for the pages followed.

the preferences of the news section they are not found in the general settings of Facebook, but in the main home.
You have to click the button with three lines that appears when you move the mouse over the News line in the left sidebar menu.
You can then see a summary that tells us about which people we read the most and also which friends we no longer follow (that is, they are still among friends, but we have stopped following what they write).
In the following sections you can, quickly and easily, select who to follow and who not from Pages, People, Groups and Apps, seeing the various lists automatically sorted by importance according to the news we have read so far.
Finally, in this way, we can stop following the groups to which we have been added without knowing it.
In the past we have talked about how to clean up Facebook by hiding news from boring sites, groups, apps, pages and friends.

4) Hide news
If you encounter a type of news that you no longer want to see, it is possible, instead of stopping following those who share it, to hide it.
To do this, press the button of the three lines next to the post and then use the option “Hide Post“.

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5) Cancel the Facebook algorithm and sort the news in chronological order.
Only if you follow a few friends and a few pages, the option of sorting the news in chronological order, without relying on algorithms, may be good.
This allows you to see all posts according to the date they were published.
To do this, click on the three lines next to the link News at the top left and choose the recent news instead of main news.
If you have a lot of friends this option becomes inefficient because you would end up seeing in the home every nonsense published without any filter.

6) Remove yourself from groups
Unfortunately in Facebook it is possible to be added to groups without being notified and without our permission.
The result is that we will see news from the groups we have been added to even if we don’t care.
To solve the problem it becomes necessary to go to the Groups section in the sidebar (or from the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/) and unsubscribe from those in which we do not want to participate or receive updates.

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