04 August, 2011

How to Disable or Filter E-mail Notifications from Facebook

Facebook.com by default sends all your notifications related to your account to the email address that you used in your facebook account. For an active Facebook user, email notifications are least important and annoying.

You can easily stop & disable email notifications from Facebook settings page or by creating a filter in your email program. Here is how to do it.
  • Log in to your facebook account.
  • Go to Settings > Notifications .
  • Unchecked the features for which you do not want email notifications or you can unchecked all to stop all email notification.
  • Save the settings and its done.
We can also disable the email notification by using an email filter in your email account. Here is how to do it in gmail.com.
  • Login to your gmail account.
  • Select a notification message from facebook by selecting the check-box next to the message subject.
  • Click on the pull-down menu at the top of your inbox labeled More actions and select filter messages like these.
  • Next you have to decide what criteria you're using for this filter. Gmail will guess for you, and it's usually pretty accurate. If you are not sure what to do just click on Next Step.
  • Next is you have to decide what action Gmail should take. Mine I choose to delete it without having read it. Once you've completed this step, check the Create Filter button to finish.
  • If you ever want to change the settings or enable again the email notifications from facebook , go to Settings: Filters. and edit or delete the filter that you have created.
Now you have stop the emails of new comments and those pesky application invites from facebook. It saves your time and save you from being distracted by reading and deleting these facebook email notifications.

2 comments :

  1. Thanks for sharing such useful information. I own a facebook account & love to chat with my friends but these notifications!!!! I was just irritated with many kind of useless notifications in my account and wanted to stop them & the above trick helped me a lot.
    Thank you so much.

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