How to stop getting notifications from a post on Facebook

ByCraig Haley

We discuss how to stop getting notifications on a particular post when using Facebook.

We’ve all been there. You post a comment on someone’s status update or photo, and the onslaught of subsequent comments from other Facebook users means you’re constantly having to deal with the barrage of notifications getting flung your way from Facebook.

And of course this can be pretty annoying. For example if you type a short congratulatory comment on someone’s “I just got promoted” post, do you really need to be notified every time someone else writes congratulations? Probably not.

Luckily, if a particular status update or photo is generating plenty of notifications and is annoying you, there is a way of turning it off so any more activity on that particular update/photo – including subsequent comments – will happen silently in the background, with no notifications bothering you.

On desktop Facebook, just locate the offending post and click the down arrow at the top right and select “Turn Off notifications” from the drop down menu. See image below.

turn-off-notifications

Alternatively if you want to get notifications from a story you’re not getting notifications from, you can select “Turn On notifications” from the same drop down menu.

Not all versions of mobile version for Facebook include this functionality at present.

And that’s it. Easy!

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