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Are you annoyed with that Facebook friend who is constantly watering her FarmVille plants? Do you not care about how many people are in Bobby's Mafia Wars? Look no further than FB Purity, a Greasemonkey user script that hides friends' applications from appearing on your news/live feed. It is customizable; you can choose to hide multiple other friend stories such as becoming a fan, joining a group, and going to an event. FB Purity is compatible with Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera, and requires you to download Greasemonkey before installation.
After restarting the browser, log in to your Facebook account and note the FB Purity options at the top right-hand side of the news/live feed. The add-on shows how many apps and other stories it is hiding. Clicking on the "Show" button is supposed to show the applications; however, the applications do not show up in our tests, but the other stories do. This is not too hindering unless you care about viewing your friends' application updates.
To customize which stories show up, click on the "FB Purity" link and select what you want hidden; the interface is extremely intuitive. Apart from having the option to hide a multitude of stories including profile updates and tagged photos, you can hide the suggestions box, sponsored box, and the "get connected" box in the right-hand panel of the screen. Facebook has the ability to hide unwanted applications for you, but having all these options clearly marked in one place is very practical. Facebook does not have the ability to hide the side-panel boxes.
The ability to hide different aspects of Facebook, while still having the option to display them, is extremely useful. This add-on is great for people who miss the olden days of Facebook, where cow pictures did not show up in every other post.
Publisher's Description
From Excellatronic Communications:
Facebook Purity hides application messages and also hides "Became a friend of","Joined a group","Became a fan of","Is attending event" type messages, which are referred to as Extras. The application whitelist lets you specify particular applications, whose messages you want to see on your homepage. The script comes with a default list of applications that will not be hidden by the Facebook Purity app filter.
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"Brilliant!"
Version: Facebook Purity 3.1
Pros
Gives you more control over what you are subjected to while using FB, and is easily customizable. No longer do I have to wade through useless updates to get to what I decide is important to see in my feed.
Cons
None. Zero.
Summary
An essential tool for anyone fed up with their feeds being clogged with useless info. Having used this for almost a year, I would cancel my FB account if I couldn't use FB Purity.
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"In Your Face Facebook!"
Version: Facebook Purity 3.1
Pros
This regularly updated and maintained addon (I use it with Firefox) is now a staple in my browser. If you don't like all the extras that Facebook tries to shove down your throat, then add FB Purity. It is NOT spammy or dangerous as Facebook would have you believe.
Cons
None that I know of
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"Exceeds expectations. Highly recommend."
Version: Facebook Purity 3.1
Pros
Great product, great customer support. I have been using it for nearly a year to remove things I don't want to see like ads, chat box, trending articles bar, and side lists. Puts settings options in one easy to access location. Also good for filtering posts of things I don't want to see or hear about. Hides spam from my news feed. Also new, single-column timeline view.
Cons
This product has come a long way. Current version has no cons to speak of.
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"wow, this script really rocks!"
Version: Facebook Purity 3.1
Pros
I love this script, it makes using Facebook bearable. It really does clean out all the junk from your newsfeed, leaving just the important messages. No more silly trivial quiz rubbish etc.
Cons
Cant think of any!
Summary
Easy to install, easy to use, works brilliantly. Install the script and say goodbye to application spam and other annoying messages on Facebook, forever! :)
Its also a free download, so what have you got to lose? -
"Makes using Facebook a pleasure rather than a chore"
Version: Facebook Purity 3.1
Pros
* it removes all the clutter from your facebook homepage/news feeds such as stupid application updates, messages about who became friends with who, who joined what group or likes what page, whether they updated their profile info or pic etc etc
Cons
There are no cons, the script is free, but if you like it as much as i do, you will want to make a donation to thank the developer for it
Summary
i could not go back to using facebook without this program, its a real life safer. If you want to stay sane on facebook, get this script now, you wont regret it!
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"One Of The Most Useful GreaseMonkey Scripts Ever!!"
Version: Facebook Purity 3.1
Pros
Actually makes Facebook what it was designed to do..Communicate with your friends without having to see what games and crap they are playing..Just drives you insane seeing your feed clogged with that crap!
Cons
From what I can see so far....NONE, ZILT, NADAA
Summary
If you want to use your Facebook just for the social networking side of it and not for games, It's going to be the essential script to have!!
