WeaxDesign
Web & Media Development
Remove attending, fan, group and “now friends” messages from Facebook
Ok fellas, I’ve found a way how to remove those annoying “Is Attending”, “Became Fan”, “Joined Group,” and “Now Friends” messages from Facebook feeds!
- First of all – USE FIREFOX!
- Install Greasemonkey add-on (need to restart your browser)
It allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. - Install this user script
That’s All!
Note that identical solution should work on Chrome, Opera and Safari too, but with a bit more tricky installation:
Read how to run Greasemonkey scripts on Google Chrome
How to run user scripts in Opera browser
Greasekit for Safari
October 28, 2009 - 16:57
Thanks for this. It works!
October 29, 2009 - 00:50
This does work as described, good work.. Can I be a pain though? I actually want the “joined group” and “is attending” msgs because it lets me see what’s popular among my mates, especially those working as promoters.
I really just wanted to cull out all the “is friends with”. Can the different messages be made optional? Or, cut the script into 3 seperate pieces and let those running it decide which pieces to install?
November 7, 2009 - 22:33
Ah!!! at last I found what I was looking for. Somtimes it takes so much effort to find even tiny useful piece of information.
Nice post. Thanks
November 9, 2009 - 20:38
Thanks! It took a few weeks for this to finally get under my skin enough to take action. I’m glad I found this page. FB is so much more enjoyable now.
January 5, 2010 - 09:01
I simply cannot get the script to install to GM- tried dragging and dropping, placing directly in the GM profile scripts folder, uninstalling/reinstalling GM- v8.20091209.4, FF v 3.5.6
January 17, 2010 - 22:07
hi, I am a luddite, I don’t know how to enter user scripts into greasemonkey. every post i find about this says “greasemonkey can be used to —blah blah blah” but I don’t get HOW. thanks for helping me and sorry if this is annoying.
February 6, 2010 - 17:04
Thanks for writing this script.
However, this still won’t prevent the stories from being shown to other users. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? I’m still scouring the Web.
February 23, 2010 - 05:29
Long ago I hid “Farmville” on Facebook. Now my daughter got me hooked on it and I can’t “unhide” information that posts on Facebook. How do I reverse it.
February 23, 2010 - 19:09
you do not need to enter script, all you need is to press INSTALL button on the top of the script page (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/60650)
February 23, 2010 - 19:15
this can be done only by adapting your facebook privacy settings