Annoying Posts From Facebook Pages You Don't Like (And How to Get Rid of Them)

Have you ever noticed a post from a page you don't like (and have never liked) in your news ticker on Facebook? Perhaps something inane like Teen Quotes or something about swag (whatever that may be) or other things which are completely irrelevant to you and your eyes and your Facebook newsfeed? Well, Facebook is showing these posts to you because they're paid to do so by the page owners. Fortunately, there is a way to get rid of these pages once and for all. Here's how:

Step 1: Select the post in question, hover on top right.

What we don't always know is that every single of these posts comes with a "report" button, although reporting is not quite as simple as just clicking it. First, pull up the full post by clicking on it in your news ticker; move your mouse to the top right-hand corner of the post to bring upt he highlighted x. Click this button. 

2. Click "Report story or spam"

If you are seeing it, chances are, it's spam to you; therefore it is perfectly okay to report it as such. Click on that shiny button; you are one step closer to freedom... at least from that page's posts.

3. Click "File a report".

This will insure there is a strike against the page. By itself, this action won't do anything; however, it feels damn good to do. However if you are lazy or don't care enough, skip ahead to step five.

4. Actually file the report.

Click the option that says "Spam or scam". Don't feel bad - a lot of the pages share posts from sites that are known to contain vicious malware. You're doing people a favor with this.

5. "Hide All Stories From ______________"

See that top link of the two, above "file a report"? That's right. CLICK IT. It will feel so good, and then you will get the following response:

And BOOM, that's it, you are FREE AT LAST from the clutches of the evil swag-pages, spammers and like whores.... well, just the one that showed up in your newsfeed.

Sadly, eradicating these pages from your newsfeed is like eradicating cockroaches when armed with a can of RAID... the only thing you can do is spray each one liberally and hope it dies wherever it crawls off to. 

Good luck, and may fortune be with you.

Outfit: Leopard Dress

Experimenting a bit with brocade tights and leopard print today. Not one of my successes; blogging it anyway. Really fond of this dress though; the fabric is super soft and velvety, and it fits me perfectly! The only thing I am sad about is that I'm so tall. The dress hits at about knee-length for me, where it should be somewhere at mid-calf. Oh well, those are the pitfalls of being 5'10!

You can get the dress here at SammyDress.com. It's a great deal!

Outfit: Don't Know Where I'm Going

Spent some more time experimenting with my new camera; this time during the day and outdoors. Thank you timer feature - this way I can be a camera whore AND avoid humanity, all in one fell swoop.

More photos under cut. (And no, it's not a cut for Justin Bieber.)

Fujifilm Finepix AX550 Review

So, I recently got this camera, and thought I ought to put in a small review of its capabilities. Fujifilm AX550 is probably the best camera I have ever used, with obvious exclusion of DSLR cameras. 16 megapixels, very clear resolution, and does great with closeup shots and dodgy lighting. I haven't had a chance to test its full capabilities yet, but I thought I'd share a few of the shots I got so far. Overall, I am very impressed with this camera - despite the fact that I am just fooling around, I accidentally got some pretty good shots!

The Hobbit on Anderson Cooper, My Art Portfolio, and more!

 

Hello again everyone! Today, I'd like to briefly talk about being in the same room with Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis and Richard Armitage last December, as well as about some other stuff going on in my life. It's been an unexpected journey, most certainly!