Subscribe to Facebook Posts to Receive Notifications Without Comment
I really enjoy using Facebook groups. I’m in a ton of different writing groups where writers exchange tips and also a few beer groups where people exchange, well, beer. One thing that has become painfully obvious to both groups: a lot of people don’t fully understand how Facebook works. A lot of weird insults pop up, but my biggest concern is that people only reply to messages with the word “Subscribe”.
People write “Subscribe” as a comment on posts, presumably because they want to keep up with them. Most often this happens in posts where someone has asked a question that these people would also like to receive an answer to. After you comment, you are subscribed to the stream by default, so you will receive a notification every time someone comments.
This seems like a normal solution, but the point is that you also get a notification every time someone else decides to write “Subscribe”. post like any other person who commented. This is annoying, and Facebook does have a feature that allows you to do this without notification spamming everyone in the conversation.
If you see a post, whether on a friend’s wall or in a group, you want to track, you can subscribe to receive notifications by literally just turning on notifications to post. Here’s how to do it:
- Go to the message in question and click the tiny arrow in the upper right corner of it.
- From the drop-down menu, select “Enable notifications for this message.”
That’s all. When you do, you will receive a notification whenever someone comments on a post.
This function works great in the opposite direction as well. I often run into problems when I comment on someone’s photo of a new baby or an engagement announcement. When you comment, you get all the other “Congratulations!” the message has been sent to you as well. You can stop it by going to the same dropdown menu and choosing “Disable notifications for this message”. Your friend still receives your congratulatory message, but you don’t need to read the hundreds of others that come after yours.