How to mute someone on Facebook?

In this article, we will know How to mute someone on Facebook.

1. By muting someone on Facebook, this person won’t know they’ve been muted.
2. They’ll stay on your friend list, and you can take a break from their posts.
3. Follow these steps to mute someone on Facebook, open the Facebook app, and log in to your Facebook profile.
4. You still need to scroll through your feed and find any post by the person you want to mute.
5. Click the three-dot icon from the main menu in the post’s top right corner.
6. Select snooze for 30 days to mute this person for 30 days or click unfollow.
7. If you want to mute them forever, you can unfollow the person just by going to his profile and clicking the unfollow button on the profile.
8. The unfollow function works the same as mute if you want to stop ignoring this person, go to his profile and click the follow button.

How do you know if someone has muted you on Facebook?

When you think a user on Facebook has muted you, send a message to that user.

Check Facebook on another device, like a smartphone. If the message is read as seen by the exact time you sent it, that means you were muted. If the messages were shown at different times, then you were muted.

How to mute and unmute someone on a Facebook story

You can mute someone in your Facebook story. To do this, you don’t get any notification when this friend uploads a new Facebook story.

How to mute or unmute someone in a Facebook story?

Using Facebook messenger

• To get started, open the Facebook app.
• It should automatically open on the first tab, the home tab, which will show your news feed.
• All the stories will be at the top.
• Now press and hold the story you want to mute.
• A menu will pop up from the bottom, where you will have the option to mute.
• Tap it in the confirmation window, tap mute, and confirmation will be muted.
• From now on, you won’t get any notifications when this person uploads a new Facebook story.
• Try another person or a group; a group can also be muted if you want to unmute these people or groups, tap the three lines in the upper right corner scroll down, then tap settings and privacy.

• Now tap settings and scroll down again to find stories.
• Tap on story settings here, and you can find the options for stories you have muted or else you can find the same option go to story privacy and select the stories you have muted.
• Here you can find people or groups you have muted.
• Now, click unmute button.
• You want to mute those people who will not to be muted, so in this way, you can mute and unmute someone in your Facebook story.

Facebook Algorithms

• If you are a person with a Facebook profile, it is beneficial for you to understand how the topic affects your virtual life; if you are a business or organization with a Facebook page, you must understand how this video affects your business and the visibility of your posts. 
• You must have heard the term algorithm. Today I want you to understand what is behind the algorithm.
• For example, did you know that the organic reach of a page post decreased in 2020 to 5.2 per cent, and the average engagement rate is now 0.25 per cent, which is a quarter of a per cent; those are pretty damn good numbers that mean people aren’t seeing your posts, not because they don’t want to, but because they don’t have the opportunity to see them and that is an algorithm that works, my goal is to make you an expert on this topic, because if I can do it, you can start us using the algorithm to your advantage.

• Let’s start by saying the definition of an algorithm is a process or set of rules to be followed in a calculation or other problem-solving operation in a social media context, specifically Facebook. An algorithm is a series of programming logic that decides what you see, when you see it, and in what order.

How Facebook monetizes?

• Facebook is a software service, and all software contains algorithms. It’s multiple algorithms. And it’s not one algorithm, but layers and logical filters are constantly being improved to maximize engagement.
• Their algorithm contains the answer to the question of what exactly caused a certain post or advertisement to appear in your feed, why you saw the post of one friend and not another, the reality is that it depends on the algorithm what you see, when, and in what order.
• See, the software knows only what humans program it to understand. Now I say hang on; what about artificial intelligence?
• The software can only learn what humans program like to learn, but if you feel like our algorithm has some power-hungry big brother hiding behind the scenes pulling the strings of social media, all I can say is you are right but know that humans control the algorithm, and there is a method to the madness of understanding the algorithm.
• At a high level, you need to understand its goals which are Facebook’s top-level business goals.
• They want your attention. They want you to keep scrolling. They want your time. They want to show you as many ads as possible.

Ads on Facebook

• They want your attention. They want you to keep scrolling. They want your time. They want to show you as many ads as possible and they want to sell your eyes to the highest bidder is the platform, and you are the product.
• The more ads they show you, the more money they pay, the more organic content they offer you, the less money they make, so they have to walk the tightrope, only showing you so much organic content to keep you scrolling but leaving enough room for ads to monetize your attention.
• The average American spends 58 minutes daily on Facebook, which is pretty sad if you ask me. The number is closer to 38 minutes worldwide audience.

Statistics

Last year Facebook declared revenue of $86 billion, so a realistic goal for Facebook would be to increase the global number of 38 minutes by 10 to 42 minutes so that they can make another nine billion dollars a year and just so we don’t lose touch with what a billion dollars are, it’s much more than 900 million dollars.

Now the Facebook algorithm goes back to 2009, so recognize that they have more than a decade of experience working on making it more intelligent, you give a giant experienced team of programmers 12 years, and that’s enough time to control the behavior of most of the developed world, and for better or worse, the algorithm is not static, while the logic is released to the platform for programmatic decisions.

It is still possible to drill day after day if the average organic reach of a post is 5.2 per cent and Facebook is having a bad month; bring it down to 5.1 per cent and show everyone a little more ads than usual that can turn any number of dials a day to manipulate what you are exposed to or even worse influencing your behavior.

Time spent on Facebook

• For example, the average session on Facebook is 4.82 minutes, so they know that if they show you a new notification, they can buy more from you in about 4.81 minutes and 30 seconds.
• That’s why you can check your notifications and scroll through your feed. Then magically, a new notification pops up and alerts you, and it’s something that’s not time sensitive.
• The new notification probably isn’t even something that happened in the last five minutes,
• It’s just them choosing to tell you about it or alert you to keep the app open and scrolling.

Conclusion

As the algorithms show us, spending time on Facebook can be a huge waste of time. It is good to mute someone on Facebook, so you spend less time there. It also saves you from different risks which is happening frequently on Facebook.

Follow the steps above to mute someone on Facebook.

Reduce screen time on Facebook. Muting someone can be a good start!

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Last Updated on November 22, 2022 by Rojalin Mahapatro