Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots
Over the weekend TechCrunch spotted the option to remove certain tabs like Marketplace, Watch, Groups, Events, and Dating or just silence their notification dots.
The move could save the sanity and improve the well-being of people who dont want their Facebook cluttered with distractions.
Constant red notification counts on the homescreen are an insidious growth hack, trying to pull in peoples attention to random Group feeds, Event wall posts, and Marketplace.
Youll see a menu pop up letting you remove that tab entirely, or leave it but disable the red notification count overlays.
For all of Facebooks talk about well-being, with it trying out hiding Like counts in its app and Instagram , theres still plenty of low-hanging fruit. Better batching of Facebook notifications would be a great step, allowing users to get a daily digest of Groups or Events posts rather than a constant flurry.Its Time Well Spent dashboard that counts your minutes on Facebook should also say how many notifications you get of each type, how many you actually open, and let you disable the most common but useless ones right from there.
If Facebook wants to survive long-term, it cant piss off users by trapping them in an anxiety-inducing hellscape of growth hacks that benefit the company.
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