The simplest guide to unfollowing, muting, ignoring, blocking on social networks

How to unfollow, mute or ignore people on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and more

 

 
Social Network Function name How it works
Facebook
  • Unfollow
  • Hide
  • Block
  • Hide all stories from a person or page.
  • Don’t show links from a selected source.
  • Restrict a person from inviting to games or from seeing your page entirely.
Google Plus
  • Mute
  • Block
  • Turns off notifications from that person.
  • Removes contact from circles; you won’t see their content and they won’t see yours.
Twitter
  • Mute
  • Block
  • Silences a users tweets in your feed, but they can still see and interact with yours.
  • Silences their tweets but also restricts them from viewing your tweets and interacting with them.
Instagram
  • Ignore
  • Block
  • Only applies to direct messages.
  • User can’t follow you or see your photos.
LinkedIn
  • Unfollow
  • Hide
  • Block
  • Remove someone’s updates from LinkedIn Pulse in your feed. Similar to a Twitter unfollow.
  • Hide updates from people you are following or your connections, while remaining a connection to them.
  • Remove someone as a connection and block them from re-connecting.
Vine
  • Limit inbox
  • Turn off revines
  • Block
  • Only accept messages from friends instead of everyone.
  • Removes revines from a user in feed.
  • Person is blocked from stream and seeing your content, except on popular tags.
Pinterest
  • Unfollow
  • Block
  • Removes updates from a single board (or many) from main stream.
  • Person can’t see your pins and vice versa.
Tumblr
  • Ignore
  • Tumblr’s equivalent of blocking. Person can’t see your post or interact in most ways.
Snapchat
  • Limit snaps to friends
  • Block
  • Snaps sent to phone are only from friends.
  • Contact can’t send snaps to you or view your story.
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