HN Explorer

Is Something Wrong With Facebook Notifications? Or It's Just Me?

6 points by ashazar ↗ HN
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

6 comments

[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] thread
anthony_franco
Are those users marked as "close friends" in Facebook? Then you'll be getting all of their activities as notifications.
ashazar
Thanks 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
Do 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
Good 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
My account iz hacked and I forgot my Gmail password.. What to do???:-(:-(
tobylane
I'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.