Routinely visiting Facebook & turn off the email notifications

Many of us are using Facebook now. Every once in awhile someone says, “so I’m here, now what do I do?”

Since time is at a premium, I’ll share my system for how I routinely ‘read’ Facebook.

My profile is bookmarked in my daily reading group in Firefox’s tabbed browsing. (are you using that yet? People agreed that it’s a MUST have!)

That opens to my profile in Facebook in a tab:

• Im my Inbox on top has a number on it, I read the messages first.
• I scroll down to check my wall posts.
• Then I click on home (top right)
  • Requests are on right - Add friends is on top if there are any
  • I tend to ignore the app’s & periodically go down & take action on them, but it’s infrequent. Facebook shouldn’t rule your time.
  • Then I skim the News Feeds & see what my friends are up to. If I see people joining a group, I go check it out & ponder joining

• If I have time, I click on Groups on left
  • • by scaning the right column, I can see changes highlighted
      • It’s a good reminder to visit my ACDSee group!
      • If you have a group, please keep tabs on it.

So if you have a system like that, then you can turn off the email notifications. There isn’t much information in them & sometimes they’re delayed. Here’s how to disable them:

Click on Account | Notifications

Turn off as many as you’d like. Note - I did leave the notification on for “Replies to my discussion board post” because I comment in so many places & like to know when people respond so that I can continue the conversation in a timely manner.

One last Facebook tip: When you want to message a particular friend, rather than surfing thru their photos, click on Friends & type in part of their name in the search box on the right. That will bring up their photo & the option to message them. It’s so much quicker!

How do you ‘read’ at Facebook? Is there a faster way?

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