It is without a doubt that social media has added huge value to our lives, but in and amongst this it has also added a great deal of information that we might not want to see. Platforms such as Facebook do allow us to friend/unfriend people or create lists, but sometimes you have a friend who shares information you want to but, but also shares a lot of information you don't want to see and it is thus difficult to manage this information. You hear people complaining about baby photographs the whole time, but what if a person who shares these photographs also shares incredible information that you want to see? Unfriending them won't be an option, nor will putting them in a quiet list be. So how do we filter this? Let us introduce you to Social Fixer - Social Fixer is a Google Chrome extension that gives you a great deal of control over Facebook. Here are some of the features:
- Filter your newsfeed by keyword, author, etc.
- Create a tabbed news feed for organising your content.
- Hide various parts of Facebook that get in the way.
- Hide posts that you've already read.
- Change the news feed to showing the latest posts rather than algorithm influenced posts.