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Is Something Wrong With Facebook Notifications? Or It's Just Me?
For about a month i've noticed that Facebook iOS app is sending me a lot of notifications about everything.
Some friends' status updates, some friends' photo shares, etc. Lots of irrelevant notifications.
It's not some "specific friends"; randomly.
It bothered me a lot and i turned all the notifications off of Facebook in the Notification Center. It didn't solve the issue. Then i went to the settings of iPhone for Facebook app and turned off all the notifications.
Now i'm relieved.
But when i go to Facebook through the browser on my desktop PC, i noticed that it wasn't the iOS app, but it's Facebook itself. Whenever i visit the page there are new notifications; totally irrelevant and that weren't coming before.
I checked the Account Settings->Notifications. All the notifications that i don't want are disabled. Only "friend request", "tag photo of me", "message" are active.
But i am receiving the notifications from other ones as well. And a lot...
And this is really annoying.
Anybody who notice that kind of anomaly in Faccebook notifications? And any solution about this thing?
Many thanks.
Serdar
- anthony_franco 14y agoAre those users marked as "close friends" in Facebook? Then you'll be getting all of their activities as notifications.
- ashazar 14y agoThanks for your reply. No, i haven't grouped any of my friends; neither "close friends" nor the others. That's why it's weird.
- bmelton 14y agoDo note that Facebook automatically groups 'close friends' based on your interaction with them. It's worth double-checking to see if anybody is in your 'close friends' (and other) groups because while you may not have explicitly done so, Facebook may have done it for you.
- ashazar 14y agoGood tip. I checked it but "close friends" is empty. But you may be right. Even though i don't interact on Facebook; i only check what videos/pics/news they shared and click the ones that i am interested in. (not even 'like' them) But as you said, Facebook is probably tracking my 'clicked news/pics' and show those friends' activities. I will monitor it for some time. Thank you all for the tips. Have a great weekend.
- supriya 14y agoMy account iz hacked and I forgot my Gmail password.. What to do???:-(:-(
- tobylane 14y agoI've had this and can't turn off notifications messages of important messages. It's the same three people, I guess it's facebook's engagement tactic.