{"id":43648,"date":"2013-05-20T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=43648"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:45:54","slug":"how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>by Christina DesMarais for Techlicious<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a Facebook friend who constantly is firing off preachy religious or contentious political posts that are clogging up my social stream with stuff I don\u2019t care to read. At the same time, the guy is the dad of one of my son\u2019s best friends and I have to see him on the sidelines of school sporting events, so the last thing I want to do is offend him. <\/p>\n<p>If this scenario sounds familiar, take heart. There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts.<\/p>\n<p>First, you can unfriend the person\u2014Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer seeing your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see an \u201cAdd friend\u201d box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative, you can tell Facebook to show you fewer posts from a particular person. To do it, click on the little drop-down arrow on the top of something he or she has posted, then choose \u201cHide.\u201d Facebook then tells you it has hidden the story from your News Feed and gives you the option to \u201cChange what updates you get from (so and so)\u201d or \u201cOrganize who you see in news feed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techlicious.com\/how-to\/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt appears with the permission of Techlicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unfriend150.jpg\" alt=\"unfriend150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43651\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-43648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techlicious","tag-facebook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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