Reporting People On Facebook | Update 2019

Facebook can be a resource of enjoyment-- and also nuisance. Spam. Obnoxious faux-inspirational quotes. Ill-informed political viewpoints. Personalized advertisements that are entirely pointless to you. The good news is for you, Facebook makes it very easy to obstruct posts that insect you and also report them if needed.

The technique for obstructing a post varies a little depending on where on Facebook you see it, but it's mostly an issue of phrasing.



 

To block a post that shows up in your newsfeed, click the downward-pointing arrowhead in the upper right corner, then choose I do not intend to see this from the menu. Facebook will hide that post. If you don't want to have anything from a certain person or web page show up on your newsfeed, choose Hide All From instead.

When you conceal a message, ask you if you want to conceal all messages from that person or page, and gives some alternatives to report a post to Facebook. Facebook provides the following alternatives: "Its not appropriate to me," "I maintain seeing this," "Its offensive or inappropriate," and "It's spam." Select the appropriate choice, and also Facebook will take it from there. You can likewise reverse your action, in case you blocked something by mistake or changed your mind.

If you wand to block something that you see on an account or brand page, computer mouse over the post concerned, click on the downward-pointing arrow, after that select Report/Mark as Spam ... from the menu. Facebook will certainly then obstruct the article in question as well as give you the option to unclog it (if you obstructed it inadvertently) or report it if abusive.

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