Social media can quickly send you down the rabbit hole before you know it. The algorithms that Facebook and other social media platforms rely on are meant to keep you glued to your screen for as long as possible. This is done by serving you fresh and relevant content.
For example, Facebook uses “Suggested for you” posts to serve content relevant to you and convince you to stay online for longer. But many users hate this feature and would gladly turn it off.
How Do I Disable “Suggested for You” Posts on Facebook?
Facebook doesn’t let you permanently disable “Suggested for you” posts. What you can do is manage what you see as suggested posts. Here’s how you can do that.
- Go to the suggested post that you want to manage
- Select More options (the three dots)
- Select Hide post if you want to see fewer posts like that
- You can also Snooze for 30 days if you want to temporarily stop seeing posts from them
- You can select Hide all if you want to stop seeing posts from that page or person
Use FB Purity
There’s an interesting browser extension called FB (FluffBusting) Purity that you can use to “filter the junk you don’t want to see.” This extension can hide ads, sponsored posts, game spam, and suggested posts.
You should always proceed with caution when installing third-party browser extensions. They may sometimes break the scripts of the web pages you’re visiting. Always download browser extensions from the official Chrome Web Store or other official sources. Don’t use obscure download pages as the tools available on these websites often contain malware and other potentially unwanted programs.
If You’re a Page Admin or Owner
If you’re the owner or admin of a Facebook business page, you can disable the “Suggested for you” feature. When Facebook users visit pages similar to yours, your Page will no longer appear in recommendations or suggested posts.
- Go to your Facebook News Feed
- Click Pages in the left menu
- Go to your Page
- Click on Settings
- Then, go to General
- Select Similar Page Suggestions
- Uncheck the box that says Include page when recommending similar Pages people might like on a Page timeline
- Save the changes
Why Am I Getting So Many “Suggested for You” Posts on Facebook?
Facebook uses “Suggested for You” posts to help you discover new things on the platform. Suggested posts are based on your previous Facebook activity. They’re not paid for. The platform identifies what posts might be relevant to you and invites you to check them out.
What Influences Suggested Posts
The following factors influence the posts suggested for you:
- Who interacted with the post: If other users, especially friends and people you follow, have recently interacted with a post, Facebook will recommend you check out the respective posts. It doesn’t matter you’re not a member of the group where that post was published.
- Related topics: Facebook may suggest others posts related to a topic you’ve recently engaged with. For instance, if you recently liked a post about cats, Facebook will suggest other posts and pages about cats.
- Location: Facebook may suggest posts based on your current location and what people near you are interacting with.
Meta strives to make recommendations that are relevant to users. Feel free to let the company know when you receive low-quality, objectionable, inappropriate, or sensitive recommendations.
Conclusion
While you can’t disable suggested posts on Facebook, you can manage what you see as suggested posts. Go to “More options” to snooze or hide suggested posts and similar pages. Alternatively, you can use a third-party browser extension to hide unwanted posts.
Do you think Facebook should let users permanently disable suggested posts? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Ricardas says
Absolutely agree can’t see anything because of the ads and suggested posts. Full of rubbish you become FB
Laura says
I’m sick of scrolling. I want to use Facebook for what it should be intended for, seeing family and friend content not suggested posts. Sincerely a 23 year old.
Molly Gordon says
Just here to join other users to tell Facebook to eliminate the Suggested for You posts. It will drive me away from Facebook very soon!!
Penny Pennington says
FB has been flooding my feed with suggested Posts of worldly wisdom, and I have being clicking on hide post, or never see posts from this site again, but they still keep on coming. I don’t know what I liked to start this avalanche, but I sure regret it.
Olof says
“Suggested for You” is very annoying. Wish I had the option to turn it off. Pages and profiles I visited re-appears. PLEASE give us users the option to turn it off.
Sasha barac says
Suggested to you is very, very annoying and I m not going to use fb any more until such time I can disable it myself
Tim Bradley says
I have now started reporting every ” suggested for you” posts as harassment. If we flood Facebook with work that requires review and report maybe they will get the message
Steve Granger says
Facebook has taken Ads one step to far. Now they have taken total control on what you see and read. The choice of content you see has been taken away from you. Suggested is just their way of saying here’s an Ad that you cannot do anything about. Well you can, stop using FB.
Em says
This feature is fast making me want to leave Facebook, I no longer see my friends posts just endless page suggestions I don’t want and didn’t ask for on my feed.
Vincent says
I’ts almost impossible to see my friends posts, the feed is filled with suggestions and ads, so most of us have stopped using Facebook for sharing stuff. We use WhatsApp groups, Instagram and other platforms.
Facebook has become unusable.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez says
This is Meta´s technocratic mind control scheme. Twitter went the same route recently (started “suggesting” you topics and tweets). Is not a “suggestion” is called pushing and propaganda. What is most infuriating is all this platforms manipulate people with the same language, for example they say “this features helps you discover” or the uber-popular “this update fixes some security problems”. Is always about security, surveillance, control.
Craig says
since joining a Florida Wildlife Group I am getting lots of suggested sites about animals from all over the world and lots of bird sites. I am not really even a bird fan and dont want to see sites from Africa and individual photographer. I f I did I would seek them out. Please stop the constant addition of these sites or let us turn them off globally.
Mel says
Every second or third post is a “suggested” or “sponsored” and I am on here to see what new platform others are considering???? I have already begun moving over to Twitter
There is a lot of offensive content being displayed I think the age rating for facebook needs to be raised it is displaying content that is illegal on timelines that dont have engagement or intertest in these fields. The rate of content and the content itself make it abusive to operate in such a manner. Change your name to reflect your business model Abusebook
Eric Uren says
This is disgusting that this feature can’t be switched off. I am so close to coming off Facebook.
Katrina says
I hate it. Most of my feed is now alternating between suggestions and sponsored content. Things I actually follow or people I want to see are only dotted between all the crap I didn’t ask for.
This will make me start to use the app less because I’m not interested in most of the content being forced on me
Wendy Gough says
I’ve been inundated with these blasted things today – why on earth can’t we stop this rubbish.
Maz says
Driving me mad, i want just my friends posts and pages i liked, not this suggested nonsense. Some of the suggestions are ludicrous! Others its 20 pages on the same subject, i dont need it!
Gary J says
I am sick and tired of seeing posts I don’t want to see!!!!!!!
unhappy face says
suggested posts are very annoying, getting 3-4 every day with unwanted political themes
Jennifer says
Fb is mind control
Pat Paine Nelson says
I am getting 15 to 20 suggested posts in a row! This is out of hand!!
Margaret says
Yes get rid of suggestions. I use facebook to simply keep in touch with friends and family not to get my news or anything else. If I want more I and I alone will get more!
Bill Zumwalt says
Suggested for you posts take space from my friends trying to post!!!! I thought Facebook was initially about connecting with people not ads suggested by Facebook! Too Much!!!
Joy Dalgleish says
I agree with what everybody is saying about these unwanted posts. If I am successful in hiding them they just come back the next day. Ive tried everything and nothing works
Janette says
PLEASE LET US DISABLE ALL SUGGESTED PAGES!! This is a terrible time wasting, diabolical move that you blocked us form disabling suggested pages. It is way too time consuming and will make me drop Facebook altogether. I am begging you! Please allow us to edit the setting to disable similar page suggestions. if you do not do this, you will put yourself out of business.
Rev. Michael Mueller says
PLEEEEESE include an option to stop the continual suggested pages. You are killing your users, who will someday stop using this
JL says
The suggested posts and videos are increasing daily. They are so distracting that I’ve been using Facebook less and I’m inclined to stop looking at it altogether. I only want to see my friends’ posts when I use Facebook.
Paul Landsberg says
I should be able to stop all “suggested for you ” posts. Its a pain to delete 10 or so posts before I can use Facebook
d says
There should be a “disable/enable suggested posts/reels/videos” option – let users decide.
Hikerjames says
I think everyone should have an option to delete suggested for you posts permanently. It drives me nuts. Every time I refresh my page I get a bunch of new ones that I have to click on not see anymore. Very aggravating.
Betty says
I use Facebook to keep up with friends and family. I have zero interest in being served content not posted them and me. Suggested posts, reels, and so forth make it practically impossible to enjoy Facebook as I intend to use it. It should be possible to disable these undesirable features.
Lily says
These suggested for you posts are driving me to stop using FB. I click more options, click see less of it, and I still get the same post every single day. I don’t know how to stop it. Hide all is never an option.
Peter Platt says
Your instructions for changing the settings is not correct (the option doesn’t exist), you need to update the article. I can’t understand why I get so many foreign language suggestions (I have no idea what they are about) or suggestions for overseas legal firms when I’m UK based.
These suggestions are actually driving me away from Facebook, as I can’t control what is suggested, rather than make me stay longer. Dropped back there, Facebook!
Julian Nortoft says
The “More Options (three dots)” does not appear in Facebook “Suggested Page” posts. There is nothing to clickor select to edit, limit, or voice an opinion.
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