How to Hide Pinterest Activity on Facebook

by Amy-Mae Elliott

1. Edit Your Settings

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.

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2. Change Facebook Timeline Settings

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.

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3. Change the App Settings

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.

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4. The Pinterest App

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.

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5. Opt in to Manually Send to Facebook

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.

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6. Share to Facebook

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.

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7. Your Pinterest Activity in Your "Recent Activity"

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.

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8. Remove Pinterest Content From Your News Feed Altogether

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.

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9. Mute Certain Facebook Users

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.

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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.

Facebook is making a phone

By Brandon Griggs

A week after Facebook's bungled IPO comes fresh news to tantalize, or torment, the company's investors. The social-networking behemoth may be making a phone.

Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, according to a New York Times report quoting anonymous sources at the company and others who have been briefed on Facebook's plans. Facebook has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple engineers who worked on the iPhone, the report said.

We've heard this before. In 2010, TechCrunch reported that Facebook was building software for a phone and partnering with a third party to make the hardware. Citing their own sources, tech blog AllThingsD said last year the phone was code-named "Buffy" and would run on a version of Android modified to integrate Facebook's services.

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But Sunday's Times report added new specifics such as an interview with a former iPhone engineer who said he recently met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who "peppered him with questions about the inner workings of smartphones," including the types of chips used. "It did not sound like idle intellectual curiosity, the engineer said."

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment on the report Monday. The company had referred the New York Times to a previous statement that said in part, "We're working across the entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS providers, and application developers."

A Facebook-built smartphone could allow users to more seamlessly send messages, post updates and share photos or article links. Although it makes apps for iPhones and iPads, Facebook is still not integrated into Apple's mobile operating system, for example.

The news arrives amid speculation that Facebook, facing new pressure as a public company, will need to develop fresh sources of mobile revenue and exert greater control over its mobile products as users spend more time networking on phones or tablets instead of laptops or desktops.

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"Mark (Zuckerberg) is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms," a Facebook employee told the New York Times.

It also comes days after rival Google closed its $12.9 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a deal that could let Google make its own smartphone, too.

Many tech bloggers believe such a move would be a bad idea for Facebook, in part because there's no clear-cut consumer need for a Facebook phone.

Henry Blodget of Business Insider wrote that Facebook would face stiff competition in the hardware business, an area where it has no experience and where profit margins are historically low.

"So instead of building a phone, which seems like a desperate move, Facebook should partner with every operating system and carrier and hardware maker it can to try to embed this social platform within every mobile platform," Blodget said. "And it should build great apps to float on top of these systems."

In a post titled "It'll Be A Miracle If The Facebook Phone Doesn't Suck," TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis was more blunt.

"Making phone hardware is hard work, much harder than anything Facebook has ever attempted in the past," she wrote.

"Basically, there are a million ways this project will fail, and just one way it will work: Facebook ostensibly could succeed by tapping into the opening in the mobile market where people want an alternative to poorly designed Android phones ? targeting people who would buy something other than an iPhone if the price point was $150 less and the design were at least a little bit more ambitious than what is currently available on Android."

Amazing Facebook Facts

Facebook is the world’s No.1 social networking website. Few days before Google has also launched Google+ as an attack to Facebook, But rather as an attack it looks very similar to Facebook and its functions work mostly the way Facebook is working. But for now Facebook is on the top and Google+ project has lots of to beat the Facebook out of the game.Here are some facts and stats which helps you to learn why Facebook is at the top and why it is very difficult for any new social networking website to defeat Facebook.

• Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with their College friends.
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
• More than 600 million(60,00,00,000) active users it just like a twice the population of United states of America.
• More than 30 billion pieces of content shared each month.
• First Facebook was only limited to the Harvard students.
• More than 30 billion pieces of content shared each month.
• The number of mobile users of Facebook is twice the number of Non-mobile users.
• Facebook is not for the children below 13 but according to ConsumersReports.org there are more than 7.5 million children below 13 who used Facebook.
• Facebook get its name from Facemash then “Thefacebook” and finally today’s Facebook
• Facebook’s was worth of $41 billion and it is the third largest U.S.A web company.