Despite being considered a social network for older people by younger generations, Facebook is the social platform with the largest number of active users, surpassing both Instagram and TikTok. Twitter, although the most popular choice for companies and public figures, is the least used among the general public. With almost 20 years in the market, Facebook provides a plethora of tools for users to maintain their privacy, although its security measures have been called into question following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Many users opt to use the “Hide” feature on Facebook to avoid seeing the posts of friends, relatives, or any other account they may not wish to follow, rather than unfollowing them to avoid awkward questions.
Hide Facebook posts
That’s correct! By selecting the “Pause” or “Hide” option, Facebook will stop showing that person’s posts in your news feed for the next 30 days. After that time period, the person’s posts will start appearing in your news feed again. If you want to stop seeing their posts permanently, you can unfollow or unfriend them.
Retrieve your friends’ posts on Facebook
In the News Feed Preferences, we can manage the content that we want to see in our news feed. Here, we can choose to prioritize the posts of certain friends or pages, unfollow people and pages to hide their posts, reconnect with people and pages that we previously unfollowed, and even discover new pages that we might be interested in following. This feature is useful for customizing our news feed according to our preferences, and it can be accessed by clicking on the three horizontal lines in the upper right corner of the Facebook app or website, and then selecting News Feed Preferences.
In this list, we can see all the accounts that we have hidden and, if we want to start seeing their posts again, we just have to click on the three vertical dots next to their name and select the option “Unhide” or “Show posts” depending on how it’s displayed. By doing this, their posts will start appearing on our news feed again. This feature can be useful for managing our social media experience and avoiding unwanted content without having to unfollow or block someone.
That’s correct! Clicking on the clock icon next to the name of the person or page that we have hidden will remove the pause and allow their posts to appear again in our news feed. It’s important to note that if we want to permanently unfollow someone on Facebook, we can also do so by clicking on the Unfollow button instead of using the Hide feature. This way, we won’t see any of their posts in our news feed but we can still access their profile if we want to.
Another option is to wait the 30 days that Facebook establishes by default to hide the publications.
