Ever get frustrated while trying to do something on Facebook because you can’t figure out where the tool to do what you want to do is located?

One reason that may be happening is that some of the tools are actually hidden! Really, you can’t see them until you hover your cursor over the relevant section. Typically that section is located in the top right-hand corner of whatever it is you want to manipulate.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Facebook doesn’t make these tools more obvious, but then there are a lot of things about Facebook that are don’t seem to make sense.

Some of the Things You Can Do with Hidden Tools

• Remove a post from your newsfeed
• Stop following a friend
• Hide all posts from page from which a friend has posted something
• Hide an ad
• Hide all ads from a particular page
• Edit or delete a post
• Edit or delete a comment
• Delete a photo
• Remove a tag

Where to Find these Hidden Tools and How to Use Them

To remove a post, stop following a friend, hide all posts from a page a friend has posted from, hide an ad, and hide all ads from a particular page:

• Hover your cursor at the top right corner of the post in your newsfeed until a little downward pointing arrow appears.
• Click on that arrow.
• Select the option(s) you want.

To edit or delete a post or a comment you have made:

• Hover your cursor on the top right corner of the post or comment until a little downward pointing arrow appears.
• Click on that.
• You will see several options, but the ones you are want are either Edit or Delete.
• If you select Edit, make the changes you want in the post or comment and click on Done Editing.
• If you select Delete, the post or comment will disappear.

To remove a photo you have added to your personal timeline (aka page) or to remove a photo where you have been tagged by someone else:

• Go to your Photos and click on the one you want to remove.
• Hover your cursor over the top right-hand corner of the photo until an icon that looks like a pencil appears.
• Click on that.
• You will be given the option to Edit or Remove. Click on Remove.
• If you added the photo to Facebook, you can select “Delete this photo.”
•  If someone “tagged” you in the photo, you can select “Remove tag.”

If this level of detail is more than you need, great, but I always offer the most detail possible because my goal is always to make it as easy as possible for people to accomplish what they want to, without any confusion.

How About You?

Have you found any other hidden tools on Facebook? If so, please share them with our readers.

About Joyce

Joyce Feustel helps people, especially those age 50 and up, to become more effective using social media, especially Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter.

She works with business owners, nonprofit organizations, retired people, consultants, and many others. Find her at www.boomerssocialmediatutor.com.