10 Surprising Things All Facebook Users Should Know

You probably use Facebook every day, but you may have missed recent developments. Or maybe you just didn’t realize how much of a monolith Facebook has become, and how easily your information might be shared further than you’d like.

Here are some things you really should know about Facebook, in some cases whether you use it yourself or not.

You Can Follow & Unfollow People

Not everyone has cottoned on to the following/unfollowing feature on Facebook, and yet it is arguably the quickest way to clean up your home feed. Let’s put it this way: it’s similar to Twitter. But there’s a little more to it than that.

When you “friend” someone on Facebook, you also “follow” them automatically. But there’s no need to continue following them. If some distant acquaintance isclogging up your home feed with stuff you don’t really care about, you can“unfollow” them without seeming rude. They’ll never know and you’ll still be Facebook “Friends” for all other purposes (like finding each other on other social networks, or chatting via Messenger).