Facebook loves to clog up your email inbox with ‘important’ notifications. If you’ve made the mistake of using your primary email address to sign up for Facebook, this will create literally thousands of emails over just a few months, provided that you are an average user. Here’s how to cut those emails out of your life. If you’re on Facebook every day, you will receive these notices through your profile anyway so the emails are not important.

1. We’ll use the new Facebook look for this post but the old look is very similar. Up on the top right of any Facebook page, click the down arrow/gear icon and look for the word ‘Settings’:

2. Look for Notifications on the top left:

3. Email notifications is what we want here:

4. Facebook has, believe it or not, sixty-seven topics that they want to email you about…every time one of them changes. We can’t fit them all onto one screen, we need two:

As you can see, we’ve unchecked everything. This account is not our main email account so we don’t want it cluttered up with thousands of emails. If it was our main email, it would be even worse. If you use your main email account for Facebook, you might want to leave the security notifications checked but that’s up to you. We have SMS or text messaging set up if anything bad happens to our account. We’ll do a post on Facebook security soon, just to make sure you know how to protect your account.

That’s it! No more ridiculous emails from Facebook. If you want us to do a topic on something specific, let us know. We love comments!

Thanks for reading!