Facebook – How to disable these annoyances on Facebook? Disable Like Page Invites, Hide Seen, Disable Video Calls

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I'd like to:

  • Disable invite for liked pages
  • Disable Facebook video calls on Android
  • Hide seen Facebook

I spend a lot of time travelling and interacting with people. Sometimes I get 40-50 incoming video calls per day. Disabling notifications on my Android phone doesn't fix this.

I have people that get upset when they can see I saw their message, but don't respond quickly.

I also get around 60 friend requests per week from strangers.

And around 75% of my notifications on facebook.com are… "invited you to like" their page.

I'm already limiting my time on Facebook and Messenger severely, but there are too many advantages for me currently, to completely abandon the platform. So I'm looking for technical solutions, not for lifestyle solutions, e.g. just block all your customers.

Best Answer

Well, unfortunately we Facebook users simply can’t block invitations to "like" pages yet (as of June, 2020)

However, here’s what you can do: on a desktop browser, visit this page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/?category=invites. It aggregates all of your page invites in a single place, and you can dismiss them one by one (click on the × that appears on hover).

Additional references:

There’s one major omission in the [list of blocking options]: stopping page invites on Facebook. Anyone who likes a page can invite their friends to like it as well, and Facebook even encourages you to do this sometimes. You’ve almost certainly been swarmed with page invites on Facebook at some point.

Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to turn off page invites on Facebook. Based on our testing, locking event invites doesn’t stop page invites.

Make Use Of (dated 06 May, 2020)

(…) All of a sudden, out of the blue, I am getting dozens and dozens of invites to “like” someone’s Facebook page.

At first, I thought it was a side effect of having a pool of Facebook friends approaching the magic 5,000 number. (…)

Upon further informal research, I don’t believe this is the case. I asked a small group of people in the office, and they have ALL seen a tremendous increase in page invites on their Facebook account.

A blog post (dated 06 December, 2019)

Update (as of December, 2020): On the new Facebook design/layout, that page still works on desktop browsers. Now there’s a wide blue 🗃️ Accept [to follow] or 👍 Accept [to like] option – click on the gray button ⋯ next to it, and then select ⊗ Decline. (Please note it’s also available as the last option in the left sidebar, as 👤⁺ Invites.)

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