{"id":5681,"date":"2017-08-13T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:06:42","slug":"following-specific-posts-on-facebook-a-bonus-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/following-specific-posts-on-facebook-a-bonus-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Specific Posts on Facebook + A Bonus Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FBFB.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a genealogist on Facebook, you probably encounter lots of posts from genealogy friends or groups that you want to keep tabs on. Say someone asks a question about resources in an area of interest. You may not have an answer, but you&#8217;d love to hear what others might say. What are you to do? Check back every few days (assuming you can even find the post again)? There must be a better way!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For a long time, the solution was to post a comment, usually something mundane like &#8220;following&#8221; so that you would receive notifications about the post. While that was a clever solution a long time ago, Facebook actually has a better way. Simply click on the little arrow in the upper-right corner of the post and select &#8220;Turn on notifications for this post.&#8221; Now anytime someone posts a comment to that post, you will be notified. If you decide you no longer want to receive notifications, click on the arrow and select &#8220;Turn off notifications for this post.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Turn-on-notifications.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Turn on notifications\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Turn on notifications\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Turn-on-notifications_thumb.jpg\" width=\"514\" height=\"198\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Tip:<\/strong> Find something interesting on Facebook that you don&#8217;t have time to read? This happens to me all the time. I&#8217;ll see a post of an article or blog post that piques my curiosity, but I just don&#8217;t have time to head off and read it. What do I do? I save it! To do this, click on the little arrow in the upper-right corner of the post and choose &#8220;Save link&#8221; (if there is no link, just a plain post, it will say &#8220;Save post&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Save-a-Post-Link.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Save a Post-Link\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Save a Post-Link\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Save-a-Post-Link_thumb.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"554\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>About once a week, when I have a spare moment, I head over to the Saved list and go through as many as I can. To access your saved items, click on the &#8220;Saved&#8221; button in the left-hand menu.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Saved-in-Menu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Saved in Menu\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Saved in Menu\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Saved-in-Menu_thumb.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"464\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>When you no longer want to keep a saved item, click on the &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; button where you can either &#8220;Archive&#8221; it (keeps it in an archived list that you can still access) or &#8220;Unsave&#8221; it (removes it from your list altogether).  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Archive-Unsave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Archive-Unsave\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Archive-Unsave\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Following-Specific-Posts-on-Facebook--A-_DB90\/Archive-Unsave_thumb.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"238\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>There you have it\u2014two Facebook tips! One that will help keep you &#8220;in the know&#8221; and one that will hopefully keep you from becoming overwhelmed due to information overload.  <\/p>\n<p>Do you have a Facebook tip? Leave a comment and share! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FBPin.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a genealogist on Facebook, you probably encounter lots of posts from genealogy friends or groups that you want to keep tabs on. Say someone asks a question about resources in an area of interest. 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