If you've enabled Facebook to auto-post your Pinterest activity, it's easy to change your Pinterest account settings.
Just hover over your name on the top-right of the screen. Select "Settings" from the menu that appears.
Now, scroll down until you see the Facebook settings section.
Where is reads "Add Pinterest to Facebook Timeline," select "Off."
You have now stopped Pinterest from automatically posting to Facebook.
Alternatively, you can edit the settings of the Pinterest Facebook app so that it only shows your Pinterest content to certain people -- either individuals or lists you have created.
To set this up, click the drop-down menu at the top-right of your Facebook homepage.
Choose "Account Settings," then "Apps" on the left hand-side of your display.
Scroll down your apps list until you see Pinterest. Once you click it, you'll see the "Posts on your behalf" section.
A little lower down, next to where it reads "Who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook timeline?" click on the "Friends" box.
If you now select "Custom," you can manually enter names of people you know would like to see your Pinterest content, or enter the name of a pre-made list.
You can also select people you'd like to hide your Pinterest content from by entering their names in the "Hide this from" box.
Even if you have stopped auto-sharing to Facebook from your Pinterest account, you can still send the occasional Pinterest post to Facebook.
To do this, simply tick the "Facebook" box as you use the Pinterest bookmarklet tool.
Or hit the "Share to Facebook" option after you've clicked on the "Pin It" button.
This also gives you more options, such as the ability to create the custom privacy options we outlined in slide four.
If you do choose to share the odd Pinterest pin to Facebook, you will see your Pinterest activity show up in the "Recent Activity" module on your timeline.
If you'd rather not see any kind of Pinterest content from people you are friends with on Facebook, you can mute the entire platform.
It's easy to do this: Simply find a Pinterest post and hit the small arrow on the top right.
Select "Hide all by Pinterest" and your news feed will become a pin-free zone.
If Pinterest isn't a huge issue in your feed in general, but there are a few people who post excessively, you can "mute" those loud few, rather than stop seeing Pinterest content altogether.
To stop seeing Pinterest content from one contact, find a recent Pinterest-related post from that person and click on the small drop-down arrow on the top-right.
Select "Unsubscribe from activity stories/music and videos (this changes dependant on the nature of the content) by NAME" and those kind of posts will not appear in your stream in the future.
Pinterest‘s social integration is very well-done, and has contributed to the fast growth of the sharing service. However, you may not want to broadcast everything you do on Pinterest to your Facebook friends. Similarly, you might not be interested in every single thing your Facebook acquaintances pin.
We can help you out. Our simple walkthrough gallery demonstrates how to stop Pinterest from posting on Facebook, how to tailor your settings so you only share Pinterest content with certain people, and how to prevent others’ Pinterest-related posts from cluttering up your news feed.
Pinterest‘s social integration is very well-done, and has contributed to the fast growth of the sharing service. However, you may not want to broadcast everything you do on Pinterest to your Facebook friends. Similarly, you might not be interested in every single thing your Facebook acquaintances pin.
We can help you out. Our simple walkthrough gallery demonstrates how to stop Pinterest from posting on Facebook, how to tailor your settings so you only share Pinterest content with certain people, and how to prevent others’ Pinterest-related posts from cluttering up your news feed.
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