What Is Facebook Snooze? How To Use Feature To Limit Friends' Posts

Everyone’s got those Facebook friends who they don’t want to unfriend but maybe post too many photos of their new cat or their car. Facebook already has a few features that allow users to control what they see on their feeds, but Friday the company announced a brand new one called “Snooze.”

This new feature allows users to take a little 30-day break from any of their friends or any pages or groups they follow on the social media platform. Once a user snoozes one of these people or groups on the site they won’t see anything from that those people or groups for a full 30 days.

The new addition was added to the site because users wanted more ways to control their newsfeeds, a post from Facebook Product Manager, Shruthi Muraleedharan, said. The Snooze feature lets users avoid unfriending anyone or unfollowing any groups, but gives all the benefits of that action. Snooze offers a temporary solution instead of a more permanent one. If a user Snoozes someone or something, nobody will be notified of that, and alternatively, if a user is Snoozed, they won’t know either. The Snooze can be reversed whenever. However, users who Snooze someone or something will get a notification when that Snooze period is about to end.

How to Snooze a person, page or group on Facebook:

When a user comes across a post on Facebook either from a group, or a person, that they don’t want to see posts from anymore, it’s easy to Snooze that person or group. When looking at the post, simply select the drop-down menu in the upper right corner of a post, this is the little menu that appears after selecting the “...” This will pull up a menu with options, like “hide post,” “unfollow,” and now “Snooze.” Once a user selects “Snooze” those posts will stay off of their feed for 30 days.