F.B. Purity User Guide - FBP Cleans Up Your FB Homepage

Using Fluff Busting Purity

Once installed, you can check if F.B. Purity is working, by loading or reloading your Facebook homepage, you can do this by clicking either the Facebook logo at the top left hand side of the facebook page, or the "Home" link at the top on the right hand side of the search box.

The FB Purity Information Bar

A new mini FBP information bar should be displayed just below your status box and just above your news feed, like so:

The FBP Options Screen

The F.B. Purity Options screen, where you can edit your FBP settings and preferences, can be accessed by clicking the "F.B. Purity" link in the FBP Information Bar at the top of your newsfeed.

FBP lets you hide Facebook Questions + their corresponding answers from your news feed

To hide Facebook Questions (and answsers) from your newsfeed simply tick the "Hide Facebook Questions" box on the FBP options screen

FBP Hides Messages From Unknown Applications

The "1 app" text means that 1 Facebook Application message has been hidden, and if you are curious, you can it them by clicking the "Show" link next to it. When you choose to show the application messages, they will be displayed with a light red dotted line around them. Each application message, will also have an extra 2 buttons, beneath the "X" button, the "WL" (Whitelist) button and the "BA" (Block Application) button.

You can easily customise which applications are hidden and which are not, for more info, see the F.B. Purity Application Whitelist Guide

If you prefer the application messages not to be hidden, you can turn off the application message filter. To do this, just untick the "Application Msgs" checkbox on the FBP options screen

FBP Lets you easily block Applications

You can easily block Facebook applications using the "BA" link that gets added the left hand side of application messages. Clicking the link gives you the option to block all the Applications that are currently being displayed on the page in your newstream, if you choose not to block all the currently displayed Apps, you are then given the option to only "Block" the application that you clicked on. When an application is blocked you will no longer see any messages from it, you will not be invited to add the app, and the App will not be able to read any of your profile data. To unblock an application, you need to go to your Facebook Privacy Settings, then select "Edit block list" where the list of applications you have blocked will be listed, and you can click the "Unblock" links to unblock themm.

FBP Hides Extra(aneous) Messages

The "28 extra" text means that 28 "Extra" messages have been hidden, and if you are curious to see them, you can click the "Show" link next to it. Extra messages are machine generated messages like "x became friends with y", "x likes y", "x joined group y", "x is attending event y", for example. When you choose to show the extra messages, they will be displayed with a light blue dotted line around them.

You can easily customize which "Extra messages" are shown and which are hidden, for more information, see the F.B. Purity Extras Guide

FBP Lets you hide the Right Hand Side Panels

FB Purity gives options to hide the following panels on the right hand side of your facebook homepage: Events Box, Sponsored Box (Ads), Suggestions (aka People You May Know, Find Friends etc) Box, Questions Box, Get Connected (aka Find More Friends) Box, Poke Box, Happening Now box (aka the News Ticker Bar)

FBP Lets You Customise Your Facebook Homepage

To change the font size, just alter the number in the font size field in the options screen to your desired size and tick the "Set" checkbox, then click "Save and Close"

More advanced users might be interested in FBP's Custom CSS option, that gives you a greater degree of control as to how your Facebook pages are displayed, by letting you add custom instructions for the web browser on how to display certain element of the page. With this, for instance you can change the actual font used on the site, or change the colour of the font or the background colour of the page, and a whole lot more! For more information, please see the FB Purity Custom CSS Guide.

Having problems with F.B. Purity?

If you have any problems getting the script to work or any questions about the script, please first of all read the Help / FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page, as the solution to your problem or answer to your question will most probably be in there.

Want to disable / delete / remove Facebook Timeline?

Click here for instructions on how to disable / delete Facebook Timeline

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