If you are like me and using Facebook for Social Media and work related purposes, you probably don’t want to know who scored 5 million points on Farkl, who’s growing a farm, and who has reached a new level in Mob Wars. I, for one, do not enjoy those types of posts filling up my wall because it covers up the relevent information that others may be posting.

I am not knocking the use of those applications – everyone has their thing – I’m just saying I don’t want all the updates.  Here’s my Facebook Tip of the Day.  You can very simply remove those notifications for various applications from your wall feed.  Here’s how:

On your “Home” screen where the news feeds are…  When you see those application updates from your friends, you can click on the “Hide” button on the right and either block that person’s wall posts and updates altogether, or you can block the application.

It won’t take you long to block the applications as they come through and you will clean out your Facebook News Feed Wall to provide you with the information and updates you really want.

Let me add, I love my Facebook friends, and some of them are personal connections, so I’m not deleting them as friends – I just don’t need to know every time they’ve collected an egg on Hatchlings.

Facebook Connections

So I recently created a page on Facebook dedicated to Artichokes and in just a week, I have over 100 followers of this page. At first I felt it was just an experiment to see how many people would find it if I worked it through various channels on Facebook, Twitter and yes – even LinkedIn.

What I’m finding now is that I’m actually connecting with some great people! Every person that has “become a fan” of my page I have requested their friendship on Facebook, and am slowing getting to know some really great people!

What’s more, I’m asking them all how they found the page – some through silly game applications, some through an actual search on FB for “artichokes” – yes people do search on it (I did), and some by seeing posts on others profiles, and a few from Twitter… It has been a good lesson on what tools are in place to gain some awareness in Facebook.

The thought I take away from this – as with Twitter and LinkedIn – the same rule would apply. Making these connections does absolutely no good if you don’t make the effort to exchange information with and get to know your networked connections!

What’s the point of connecting with people if you have nothing share? As on Twitter, share your experiences and expertise, but also share some of yourself on a personal level. Allow people in cyberspace to see that you are real and honest.

Just short post in the wee hours of the morning – but some thoughts I wanted to share.