Facebook Sanity

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To calm down your Facebook feed (if you use Facebook from a desktop browser): install FBPurity and then click "import settings", tell it you don't want to upload a file, and paste in the following:

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You may well wish to change the filter text and other preferences; it's easily editable after you've imported these settings.

As is, it will hide most types of posts apart from actual content written (or photographed) by your friends — including "shared a link" posts — and filter a few obvious politics keywords. You can easily make it more or less restrictive afterwards.