I’m going to admit to something that I never thought would happen to me. The Facebook notification beep has me trained like Pavlov’s Dog…
A couple of weeks ago I started noticing a weird intermittent beeping sound from the laptop. With all the tabs and windows I have open, it took a while to track down. Finally, I found it – the Facebook notification beep.
It didn’t particularly bother me. Not being a naturally social person, I am immune to the call of Facebook (or so I thought). And, I rarely hear anything because the headset is usually plugged in even when I’m not using it.
Until the Muppet pup chewed the headset…
Over the weekend as I came in from walking the Muppet, I heard the BEEP. I didn’t even take off her lead and checked Facebook…
Last night as I was cooking – BEEP. I came in from the kitchen and checked Facebook.
This morning, mid-type – BEEP. I stopped what I was doing and checked Facebook.
Enough is enough, the Facebook notification sound had to go!
How to Disable the Facebook Notification Beep
Log into Facebook and click on the gear icon at the top of the page. A drop down menu will appear with the pages you manage and other settings. Select account settings, it will open a new page.
You’ll be shown the General Account Settings page. Over on the left menu choose notifications
The next screen is Notification Settings. Right at the top is “On Facebook”. Click the view link.
The “On Facebook” settings section will expand. Untick the “Play a sound when each new notification is received” box and click save changes.
Now I have my life back and working on de-conditioning myself!
Over to you…
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Good tips for Facebookers.
I usually just turn the volume down on the PC. So many sites have music or auto-load videos. When I have multiple tabs open, those jumble and make a ruckus. Ugh!
Happy A-Z. Stopping by from UBC group.
Same here, Linda – I was so used to no sound. Either everything is closed except what I am doing when the headset was on, or the headset was still connected with me not wearing it!
Thanks for popping in and enjoy the UBC 🙂
Jan – Thanks so much for this tip! I interview women online on my podcast, and so often these FB beeps come thru and are so distracting. I will add this tip to the guidelines I send interviewees beforehand.
I’m pleased the post will be useful Darlene. The FB beeps are very distracting! Thanks for popping in 🙂
Peace! Thanks Jan. Perfectly explained 🙂
Joy
Haha – yes peace at last, Joy 🙂
Thanks sooo much for this post! I noticed it too and had no idea how it was happening. Now I can turn it off. FYI comment luv is posting an older post so now I have to get that fixed next:)
Has your feed updated Toni? Glad this post helped you out – thanks for popping in 🙂
My feed still hasn’t updated. I tried to post on a few sites I regularly post on and tried to copy the url to my current post. One site let it go through the other didn’t. http://toninelsonmeansbusiness.com/keep-going-after-your-dreams-katie-couric/
That’s really strange – click on your feed and it is up to date. Wonder why commentluv isn’t pulling it in? Perhaps that’s one for their support desk?
Great post. Been trying to turn off the notifications for the UBC group because each time an update us made my BlackBerry alerts. Just want to login and see the updates.