Hiding Political Posts on Facebook

Many of my friends on Facebook have lamented the explosion of political posts this year in their news feeds, and wished they could hide them.

I can show you a way to hide political posts on Facebook and it takes less than 5 minutes to set up.

1. Go to socialfixer.com and install the add-on version for your browser (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc). Just about everything EXCEPT Internet Explorer is supported!

2. Once you install the social fixer add-on, enter Facebook. You can (and probably should) turn off every single option EXCEPT "filtering".

3. Click on "filtering". Make sure "Filter posts on pages and profiles"is checked.

4. Go down to the Other column and and (here's the hard part) type the following line into the field labeled Matching Text:
/politics|conservative|obama|romney|republican|democrat|election/i

(you must start with a slash and end with a slash and letter i)

Between the slashes you can put any word(s) you want to filter, seperating each with the bar character |....or you could just copy and paste the line above to remove 95% of all political posts! (Be careful if you add a filter for "Ryan" if you have any friends named Ryan, they'll be hidden too!)

5. Next in the Action column, simply click the Move to tab: field and type "Politics" (or "hidden" or something).

6. Save and exit.

7. The next time you enter Facebook you will see two very small tabs at the top of your newsfeed: "Home" and "Politics". "Home" is the default. You'll never see another post from anyone again with the words listed above UNLESS you click the "Politics" tab.

The best part is that your friends' non-political posts will still display as they always do...just their poltical rantings are hidden!

I must confess I did not discover this on my own, someone linked these instructions to me a while back and I've been using it ever since.