JDHarper.com » facebook http://jdharper.com/blog Stuff Worth Writing About Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Clean Up Facebook with a Greasemonkey Script http://jdharper.com/blog/clean-up-facebook-with-a-greasemonkey-script/ http://jdharper.com/blog/clean-up-facebook-with-a-greasemonkey-script/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 13:33:29 +0000 J. D. Harper 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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