Creating a Facebook Feed You Will Enjoy

Want Facebook to show you more of the things you care about? You can create a better Facebook feed with just a few easy steps.

A few years ago my friend Bethany of the former blog The Glamorous Housewife shared some great information about making your Facebook feed more fun and enjoyable.

I wish I could still share her post but she has moved on to other things and her blog is gone until I can convince her to come back. I thought since I couldn’t share her post I’d share what I’m doing since she taught me her ways.

Facebook is one of those things that we can get so much good from but can also be a waste of time and even leave us feeling angry and upset. 

I like to minimize my time on Facebook and get the most out of it when I am on. I have to be on a lot more than I’d like because I use Facebook professionally as well as personally. 

Facebook didn’t use to be such a mess. It was easy to see what your friends and family were up to but since they now have new algorithms all the time you can end up with a feed full of political memes and people you hardly know and you miss what your close friends and family are up to.

There are ways to make Facebook more fun again and make your feed better. 

Creating a Better Facebook Feed

Take advantage of the “acquaintance” category. If you see people you don’t know well but you still want to keep up with them some you can add them here.

What is the acquaintance category?

It helps tell Facebook that these friends are people you want to stay friends with and you’d like to know about big news but you don’t need to see every meme they post. 

You’ll find out things with keywords Facebook deems important and posts that get a lot of interaction but you won’t have to see everything. 

Have some people that are posting things you don’t like but you still care about them and don’t want to defriend them? Maybe you need to be in the right mood to look at their stuff.

I have some family I truly love but our views on life are very different and it’s better for our relationship if I only occasionally go check on their stuff. 

For these people using the “unfollow” option is great. You are still friends and can go look at their page when you want to check in but you won’t see them in your feed. You can undo this setting at any time. 

I mostly use this during elections and also during hunting season. I have some sweet friends that know I’m a big animal lover and don’t want to see dead deer on my feed so they will warn me it’s hunting season so I want to unfollow them until it’s over. I love that they are so considerate of my feelings! You really want to keep those friends.

Now that we are seeing less of the things we don’t want to see we want to add more of the things we like.

There are also likely people you want to see more of. Close friends and family that you really want to stay caught up with. For these people use the “close friends” category. This will tell Facebook to share them more.

I follow a lot of blogs on Facebook because it’s a fun way to keep up with them and to get information about things I care about.

Unfortunately, Facebook loves for pages to pay them to be seen so a lot of what you are seeing is posts from people paying to be on your feed. 

Facebook doesn’t show everyone that “likes” a page the posts but instead only shows a small percentage of people the posts. It’s a really small percentage if that post hasn’t already gotten a lot of interaction. 

I don’t know about you but I don’t just want to see things a lot of other people like or someone paid to show me, I want to see more of the things the pages I care about are posting. 

What I do is go through the pages I care about and categorize them as “See First.” (You can do this with friends as well)

Now when I log into Facebook I see the pages I really care about pop up at the top of my feed. It makes my feed a better place full of more of what I love!

Here is how you can do it too:

1. Go to a Facebook page that you love (like Retro Housewife Goes Green).
2. Hover over the “Following” button.
3. Click the “See First” option. 

If you are on mobile the process is a little different. 

Here is how you can do it too:

1. Go to a Facebook page that you love (like Retro Housewife Goes Green)
2. Click the button with three dots under the page name.
3. Click the “Following” option.
4. Click the “See First” option.

That’s it! Now you will see more of what you want, not what Facebook thinks you should see. 

Don’t forget to like Retro Housewife Goes Green on Facebook and select See First. I share my blog posts and other fun homemaking things.