Facebook has been deteriorating lately; the signal-to-noise ratio is going down. The news feed is cluttered with quizzes like “Which Disney princess are you?” and with people becoming “fans” of things like music and water.
Fortunately, there are people out there who have fixed these problems for us, with an incredibly useful little Firefox add-on called Greasemonkey. If you don’t have it already, just click that link and click “Add to Firefox.”
Next, we’re going to install a script to make Facebook look like this:
After you’ve added Greasemonkey to Firefox, click on this link to install a script that will strip out Facebook ads, make it have only two columns instead of three, block app invites, and remove “fan” pages and apps from the Highlights and news feeds.
You’ll be left with just the signal without all the noise.
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May 23, 2009 at 1:28 pm
…e the “clutter” of seeing who took what quiz and who is a fan of what, Jeremy has found an add-on to streamline it. Nancy Wilson had an excellent post about …