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These days, it's no longer surprising back a friend or coadjute suddenly cleavage into a rant on your Facebook feed. It can be triggered by zero from a politician's cheep to a screenplay spoiler to the blazon of mask someone's cutting (or whether they're cutting one at all).

If somebody on your Facebook feed has crossed what you consider to be a line, again you can use a number of methods to rescind their posts -- or them -- from sight. You can unfriend them, clamper them, catnap them (so you won't see zero from them for 30 days), or artlessly hibernate one of their entries. Here's a rundown of how to regain each.

Note: All of these directions are for the "new" version of Facebook on your desktop.

Hide a post

Let's say somebody whom you otherwise like writes a rave review of a screenplay that you certainly loathed. Considering you are friends, it appears on your timeline. You really don't appetite your padding spoor to gotta read that so-wrong review. Don't sweat it! It's easy to hibernate that one post therefrom that it artlessly doesn't announced on your timeline. (It will, of course, still announced on the timeline of the person who wrote it, but there's offing you can do hazardous that.)

Just contusion on the three dots on the upper-right of the entry. You can hibernate that specific post, or "snooze" the person who put up the post for 30 days. You can moreover unfollow the person, which organ that you will no longer see their entries on your timeline, but you will not be unfriending them.

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Note: If you hibernate a post and again gestation your mind, you can gathering it again, although it will booty a bit of doing:

• Click on the pointer on the upper-right cusp of your Facebook page
• Select "Settings & Privacy" > "Activity Log"
• In the cavalcade on the left, peekaboo for "Filter" (it will be a small earthy link in the upper-right cusp of the column) and contusion on it
• Scroll downward to and weeded "Hidden from Timeline." Contusion on "Save Changes."
• You should see the subconscious posts in the left-hand column. Hover your cursor over the explosion you appetite to unhide, contusion on the three dots, and you has to be coextensive to restore it.

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Unfriend somebody

You've friended somebody who you thought might be nice, but it turns out that their politics or conventionalism toward cat videos or amaranthine posts hazardous pansophic incompatibility movies is driving you nuts. Ambuscade the pixieish post won't do it for you. You appetite to unfriend them.

It's not hard:

• Go to their profile (you can either contusion on their profile photo or chase on their name)
• Click on the "person" icon (it's right abutting to the "Message" button)
• Select "Unfriend" > "Confirm"

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According to Facebook, the person you unfriend will not be notified that you hypothesize unfriended them. However, you will no longer be in their spoor list, therefrom they may notice that you're gone. If you gestation your mind, you will gotta go through the normal "friending" process again.

Block somebody

Sometimes, there's no way effectually it -- a person has really outraged you, and you don't appetite them anywhere, anytime, on your timeline. In that case, it's time to clamper them.

When you clamper somebody, they won't just not be coextensive to post on your timeline. They won't be coextensive to see zero you post on your timeline, tag you, send you an invite, try to friend you, or alpha a conversation with you. And if you're once spoor with them, you'll unfriend them as well.

To clamper somebody:

• Click on the pointer on the upper-right cusp of your Facebook page
• Click on "Settings & Privacy" > "Settings"
• Look for and weeded "Blocking" in the left-hand column
• Look for the "Block users" sheet in the part-way of the page, and blazon the person's name -- or partition of their name -- in the "Block users" field
• A litany will divulged up of names that fit what you typed in. Gathering the person you appetite to clamper and contusion the "Block" sawed-off abutting to their name.

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If you gestation your mind, it's relatively easy to unblock somebody -- go convey to the "Block users" section, and you'll see a litany of anybody you've obstructed beneath the "Block users" field. Artlessly contusion the "Unblock" sawed-off abutting to their name.