Remove Facebook application messages from your News Feed

Some people love Facebook apps. Nearly a million Facebook users*   cannot stand reading news updates about their friends app activity.

Here's how to hide streams from Friends, Pages, and/or Applications on your Facebook News Feed.

On your Facebook Home page, there is a Hide button next to each item on the New Feed.

1. Move your mouse along the top right column of a post to make the [Hide] button visible and click it.
2. Click [Hide ApplicationName] to stop updates about your Facebook friend's activities on Facebook applications like YoVille, What Ancient Goddess Are You?, Mafia Wars, Farmville, Fishville, iHeart, etc., etc., etc.
3. Click [Hide FacebookFriend] if you do not want to see anything a particular Facebook friend posts.
4. For Fan Pages, you can click [Hide Page] to stop update streams from Pages.
5. To see hidden posts again, click the Edit Options link at the bottom right of your Home page News Feed - and add hidden posts back.

It took me a couple of days to cover the major apps.... At this point, 36 Application update streams are hidden on from my News Feed. I love being able to keep up with my Facebook friends without following their Application adventures. No offense intended.

As of this post, there are 950,006 fans on Facebook's "I dont care about your farm, or your fish, or your park, or your mafia!!! Fan page. I hope these directions help them and you have a more enjoyable social networking experience on Facebook.