Can't Unfollow or Unfriend People on Social Media? Mute Them!

Tired of your friends, family, or colleague who keeps making non-stop posts about what they ate for lunch or how they look when they woke up? The problem is, you simply can't unfollow or unfriend them without them knowing that you did. Sometimes, it's easier to mute them, and you can check their page every now and then if you want to keep up appearances.

Check out these guides on how you can mute people on social media without completely getting rid of them.

Twitter

For some, they can still find it easy to be annoying in 140 characters or less. Good thing you can now mute them and they won't even find out. They'll still be able to interact with you and respond to your tweets, so you don't have to worry about offending them.

All you need to do is to tap one of their tweets, and then hit the options menu (three circles next to the like button). Hit the Mute option there and you're done.

Facebook

This is one of the most common social media sites where you would really like to delete people from your news feed but you can't.

If you're getting spammed or you've had enough selfie posts of someone in particular, you can tap on a recent update and choose to receive less updates from that person. You can pick from the list (as shown below) depending on what you feel what's right for you. This method is nicer than completely deleting them from your Friends list, and it saves the hassle in case you bump into them in person.

Eventually, their posts will stop coming in to your news feed if you keep hiding their content.

LinkedIn

Even though we all know that LinkedIn is a professional social media site, there's always somebody who doesn't understand where to draw the line when it comes to self-promotion. You can mute or advert a conversation easily by clicking the arrow in the upper-right corner beside the Follow button. You can choose to hide that particular update or conversation, and it will stop cropping up in your news feed every two minutes.

Deleting people in this site is not a very good thing to do if you want to stay professional and use the site for networking or business purposes.

Google+

Google+ can be considered as a much hated social media platform even though it has a number of loyal users -- a number of them are also annoying. To mute a page or person, click on their name, then click the arrow down button at the bottom. Choose the option to mute the annoying/offending page and they'll never know you did that to them.