The most useful FriendFeed feature not being used by its users

One of the most common complaints I have seen on FriendFeed; especially among newcomers to the service is what they perceive as the noise level because of all the social services that FriendFeed allows you to track. This is especially apparent with Twitter as many people use both it and FriendFeed so a lot of echoing can occur.

I think that this is enough of a problem that is has been a negative used against FriendFeed unnecessarily. However the guys at FriendFeed knew this could be a potential problem and built in away for you to quiet the noise selectively service by service. Unfortunately the way to use this filtering system it is not the most obvious.

So for all you new folks - and even some of the FriendFeed old timers - here is a nice simple screen capture to show you where to look.

FriendFeed noise filter

The first thing you do is select the offending party and the posting from the service you want to filter out. BTW Philipp this wasn’t personal you just to happened to be the first post on the FF page when I took the screen capture

Then click on the Option link under the title of their post.

Then click on Hide entries like this.

Done.

So if you have selected one of their Twitter entries and done this you should no longer see any of their Twittering on FriendFeed.

See .. wasn’t that easy Now go filter away to your heart’s content.

Conversation Tags: FriendFeed, filter services

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nicolesimon 5 months ago 1 point
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Are you kidding? That is my most used feature. :) last.fm .. most of the twitters, every other thing like netflix etc .. all gone gone gone. and yes, i would like to filter everything from a servie, but the engtech addition of the greasemonkey script helps to boil that down rather easily.

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Corvida 5 months ago 1 point
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The biggest problem is that you have to do this for everyone! I wish there was a global setting like this for services. I wish could ignore ALL twitter updates on FriendFeed unless they have a comment or like. To have to do this manually for every person is a burden if you're following a lot of people.

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Rick Mahn 5 months ago 1 point
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Corvida, you have a couple good ideas - I'd suggest them directly to FF. Here is a link to their Contact page: http://friendfeed.com/about/contact

Cheers!

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Corvida 5 months ago 1 point
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Just emailed them! Thanks Rick! Once I get a response, I'll post it in this comment section...or maybe if they add it they'll just announce it, but I requested a Global Settings feature for services.

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StevenHodson 5 months ago 1 point
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True enough Corvida .. maybe this is something the FF guys will think of adding

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