Go to her page and click on Following to un-follow her.

^^What Alisande said. You can also add the person to a personal list, which will allow you to review those people's updates without going to their FB page.

Good luck!

Click on the little opaque down arrow to the right of one of her posts and check "unfollow".

yes.. just unfollow but don't unfriend unless you really want to unfriend her

I have different lists also. I have one niece who just loves her selfies. She's in my stuipd list. I really don't need to see how she looks when she wakes up in the morning, or after a night of drinking. That girl just loves her face in pictures. lol. I also have a list of all my game friends. I don't follow any of them. But I can just click on the list to see what's up with them.

LOL, Linda!

Also,if "friends" are "acquaintances" you won't get as much on them either

I have yet to figure out why things others post on FB "annoys". That is what FB is and what it is supposed to be. I realize some people post more than others. As long as it is not nasty or pushing something on me (religion or sexual preference for example) I really don't care and scroll on by anything I am not interested in. Now if they are posting it on YOUR timeline that is a different story and you can set your timeline so that people cannot post to it. They will still be able to tag you, but you can remove tags.

I can understand it. Maybe it depends on how much scrolling one is willing to do. I check FB often, but rarely scroll very far into my newsfeed. So if one person clogged it up with things I wasn't interested in, I'd want to remedy that too.

For whatever reason, nothing I posted yesterday went through... Strange!

With this one "friend", I had hidden her earlier but wanted to give it another shot so I could see her stuff now and again (forgot why I hid her in the first place). I don't know what I did, but now all she posted got into my notifications. I did have her set to "follow", which is what I have my other friends set to as well, yet they only get on my notifications if I have commented on something (and similar), while for her, everything she did prompted a notification! I didn't mention the notifications part at first because it didn't dawn on me that this is why it became a problem. All her notifications were drowning out everything else. I think it has stopped now though.

Hellion, I get what you're saying, but seriously, some people have no internet-social-skills and though I have over 200 friends on my friends list, only about two or three out of them are posting left and right about every thought that goes through their heads. Or they will share everything they saw that they found somewhat interesting. You can think "oh, cool!" and leave it to that, but don't share EVERYTHING that was cool or funny or cute with everyone! It's too much! I used to know how to simply hide these people, but now I can't figure it out. It makes for a much more pleasant experience to be on FB when these people aren't stuffing my newsfeed constantly. I seriously feel like I need to tidy up, just like when I organize a drawer at home.

Thanks by the way, everyone! That's what I tried to say yesterday, but it's not showing up.

see if the post was shared with your friends.. Or it's possible the algorithm doesn't prioritize on their list. another reason is your friends may need to follow you in order for your news to appear on their newstream..

You can create a private group where you can share information more privately (aka not including annoying friends for example). I say more privately because friends of friends may still be able to see things you get tagged in. You have to change your privacy settings to make things more exclusive.

She posted a status update again and it showed up as a notification! I just don't get it!
I'm
not really concerned whether they see my stuff, it's just that I don't
want to see all hers, and I especially do not want to be notified every
time she makes a move. When I'm on her wall, I see "follow", and I can
switch between "follow" and "following". So I would assume that I'm not
currently following her if it only says "follow"????

I know I had put two other people on a list to hide them, and I can't find this list either. How do I hide someone? And how do I find my lists? I have categorized my friends earlier, but I can't pull up any lists. Facebook can be so annoying, the minute I have figured out how to find my way around, they change it.

I'll try my best to describe the process....

Go to your annoying friend's most recent post. Look for a down arrow located on the upper right side. Click on it.. then choose unfollow from the dropdown list. That should stop the notifications.

re the privacy group list - go to your account settings. Blue bar area - look for the down arrow again (far right corner). Click on it.. it will give you a choice to create a group or manage a group. For an existing group, click manage..

Thanks so much ianna, I went to her post and when I clicked the down-arrow, the only option I was given was to turn on notifications, so that means I can't turn it off because it's already off. Yet I'm constantly notified of her stuff.

I think you might be misunderstanding me; I'm not trying to keep my stuff from being sent out to others, I'm just trying to keep from seeing all of hers. And so I don't really need to do anything with groups, it's the friends' lists I'm trying to find now, in order to see if I can add her to a list like Linda is doing, in the hopes that I can stop notifications from the entire list. It's these lists that I'm trying to manage, but can't find them.

Linda, how do you find / manage your friends' lists?

It is easy to block a lot of posts just by clicking the down arrow right of the post and check hide whether it is a game or a newspaper or those sites that offer those sayings or pictures whatever they are called. I have one fb friend who constantly posts weird conspiracy type stories and as soon as I see one I hide where the story originated from so if he posts more I won't see them again.

ianna, thank you for your patience and taking the time to explain!

And cherryfizz, I've done what you suggested for a while now regarding games, and it's been very helpful. I don't receive much of that anymore after hiding those, so that's good.