[Slugman]

OK, I have another facebook question, that I have already attempted to solve myself, without success. I "liked" a bunch of stuff, such as my favorite football teams, and some musical groups, TV shows, etc, and now my news feed is over-run with everything anyone posts to any of those sites. I don't see any way to turn them off, or change the settings for my news feed. Do I need to go back to everything I "liked" and un-like it, or can I somehow change my news feed settings to only show posts made by friends, or to groups I belong to?

[MCaver]

If you hover your mouse over the upper right corner of an item on your feed/wall, you should see a down-arrow appear. Click that and it will open a menu of choices. Choose "unsubscribe", and that source (person, TV show, whatever) will now no longer show up on your feed/wall. You'll need to do this for everything you added.

[Slugman]

Thanks. When I liked the pages, it said nothing about that making me a subscriber. Sometimes ignorance ain't bliss.

[MCaver]

Facebook likes to assume you want things spamming all over your page by default.

[Slugman]

The weird part is that it was attempt by me to end spam. I asked facebook to remove an ad from the right side of the screen. When they asked why, I said "MYOB". Then they asked me "Oh yeah? Then what do you like?" I assumed this would be used to determine what ads I saw in the ad space. I thought they were saying "Hey, bub, you gotta see some ads, so choose your poison." Next time I make a change at facebook, I'm going to ask about it first.

[Canuck]

I don't often post here, and I'm not super active on FB either (fits & starts, anyway) but I'm more likely to post about hikes on FB than in here... and now that my kid is 9 and more active in sports & stuff, I'm not even hiking as much as I'd like but I figured I'd join anyway.

[tcvd112]

I joined it, waiting for confirmation