In our last post we explained the dangers of using third-party apps in Facebook. One of the apps we mentioned advertises that it gets rid of the new trending updates on Facebook. Here’s another way to do the same thing yourself.

1. On any of the trending news stories that appear on your Facebook feed, hover your cursor just to the right of it and find the little arrow . Click on the arrow. Here’s what you will see:

(The photo above shows the Cooler Master feed but this is used as an example. We don’t want to hide anything from Cooler Master.)

Use this for any trending story that you want to hide from your timeline. You can also use the ‘block’ list in your privacy settings but this way is much faster and easier. We’ve hidden every trending news story that popped up so, for this example, we had to show you how to do this on a Cooler Master post, one of the pages we have ‘liked’ in the past. We will not hide the updates from Cooler Master, that’s for sure.

Obviously, you can also use this technique for your more active friends, the ones who post a bunch of useless things all the time. You don’t want to ‘unfriend’ them but you also don’t want to be inundated with those posts. When they settle down, you can unblock their updates in your account privacy area.

Thanks for reading!