How to Set Social Media Notifications to See Your Favorites First

Many times because of the Facebook algorithm you will feel like you’re missing posts from your favorite people or that everyone else is getting them and not you. Once you have clicked LIKE on a Facebook fan page–it doesn’t stop there. Here are the steps to making sure you SEE FIRST the pages that are most important to you–so you’ll see them in your feed every time they post.

Facebook:

For Mobile Phones

1. Click MORE (the 3 horizontal bars) in the lower right of Facebook
2. Scroll down and Click Settings & Privacy
3. Click Settings below Settings & Privacy
4. Scroll down to News Feed Settings
5. Click News Feed Preferences
6. Click Favorites
7. Add Pages or People you Follow to Favorites

For Desktop

To use see first from your News Feed Preferences: 

1. Click  in the top right of Facebook. 
2. Select Settings & Privacy > News Feed Preferences.
3. Click See First.
4. Select a person or Page to see first by clicking  next to their name.

To use see first from a Profile or Page:

1. If you’re not already following the Page, click Follow near their cover photo. If you don’t see Follow, click  > Follow.
2. To select a profile to see first, click  then select See First.
3. To select a Page to see first, click  then select Follow Settings. Click See First, then click Update. 

Note: You can select up to 30 people or Pages to see first. Your selections aren’t ranked (example: your first selection isn’t seen first, your second selection isn’t seen second).

Instagram:

Now let’s talk about Instagram which is simplier, but because there are live videos, posts and stories you have to update the settings for each section. Here’s how you do that:

1. Go to profile @MissPrincessDom (or whoever you want) to alter the settings for.
2. Click the Following button and you’ll get the menu below.

3. Click the Notifications arrow.
4. Toggle Posts to On, Toggle Stories to On and Toggle IGTV to On.
5. The default settings for Live Videos is “Some” but you want to set them to ALL. Click the arrow next to “Some” and set it to Get All Notifications.
6. Once you’re done your settings for the account you’re following should look like the menu below.

Youtube:

First you need to make sure that your phone is set to receive notifications from YouTube. You can skip the first 3 steps in case your device is already set to receive notifications from YouTube.

1. Tap on Settings 
2. Tap on Notifications 
3. Next tap on YouTube and Toggle On Notifications
4. Open up the YouTube app
5. Login to your YouTube account by tapping on the Account tab and then tap on the Sign In button
6. Search for @MissPrincessDom or the channel, celebrity or YouTube user that you want to receive notifications from.
7. Make sure that you are on the Home page of this particular channel
8. Next, tap on the Bell Icon (See image below). This will get you notified in case any new videos are uploaded by this particular channel.

Is Twitter still a thing? I’ll come back to that later.

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