Wednesday 10 July 2013

How To Modify Your Facebook

If your anything like me then you will know that Facebook is becoming more and more cluttered as it goes on. Today i found the site full of unwanted items. Things i don't need, wont need or ever use. I see all the time my friends complaining about how its changed again. Well instead of complaining i decided to do something about it. Using the help of a browser extension; a browser extension is a computer program that extends the functionality of a web browser in some way. i have managed to make my Facebook go from this:

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into something a lot like the old Facebook

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So your probably thinking this is got to be hard right? well actually no not really. The hard work has already been done by me. All you need to do is follow the instructions below and you too could have a clean and friendly Facebook.

1 - Download Social Fixer for Your Browser (Click Here)
2 - Once Installed go to Facebook and Login
3 - when the wizard appears click cancel
4 - Once this is done click on the icon in the top right corner and select options and go to Styles CSS
5 - Copy and Paste the code from the file stored here
6 - Click on Advance and look for the option Hide Right Column and paste the following in: ;Sponsored;;People you may know;Rate Films;Rate TV Shows;Recommended Pages;Games You May Like;Play It Again;Add a Location to Your Photos;Rate Recently Used Apps;Close Friends Suggestions;Add to Films;Rate These Places
7 - Select the next option down and paste this: Groups Section,Lists Section,Interests Section,Pages Section,Games Feed,My name and picture

Once this has been entered click save and refresh the page (Press Ctrl + F5) when the page loads you will see all of Facebook's content disappear right in-front of you. once all the above is entered your facebook should look like this.
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Now you can change the rest of the settings in social fixer. Please take the time to look at the other options and see how they work. Everything is explained on the social fixer page. If you like the modification please share this blog so others can change it too.

EDITED 03/08/2013

I have had a few people say that there Facebook doesn't look quite like the images i have above after following the instructions. This is because there are more advance settings that's being used to make it look that way. If you feel you can do this then feel free to do so. To make it like mine you will need to click on the spanner icon in the top right corner. click options and go to User Preferences. Here you will see a white box where you can enter your own instructions. Doing this will wipe anything you have done previously however this does already include whats been done above but any additional options you had chosen will get wiped.

In this Section you need to paste the the contents of the following file and click the import button

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Once complete click save and refresh your page. You should then see a very tidy original looking Facebook.
A good feature i would recommend is the Filter section. I use this to filter my news feed making it easier to read post As you can see from the example below its a nice and easy way of viewing your feeds in a much simpler way.


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None of the filters have been set only standard games in Facebook will auto tab you will need to do this yourself in the Filtering options on social fixer. However there are some filters i have set up all ready. If you wish to have your feeds like +Minions etc auto tab then in the process above if you also add the text from this file as well onto the end of the file above and then import you will get filters like mine

EDITED ON 16/09/2013

There have been changes from Facebook recently so i thought i would post a fix to this on the bottom of here. You will notice recently that under certain posts when you like them it will offer other people page's to like. If your like me i don't want this. So after a bit of tinkering around i found a way of removing this. Just like above, go to the Style (CSS) Tab. At the bottom of the existing code add the contents from this file
Once you have added this click save and refresh your page. you should go from something like this:

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 Into something a bit like this:

click to open image in full - PLEASE NOTE real names have been change to protect the innocent does not look like this in real life

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