I just turned off my email notifications from Facebook and subscribed to my Facebook notifications via RSS feed instead. Why? So that my inbox stays clean and free of any Facebook bacn/junk.
I don’t know why I never thought of this before but I’m sure glad I did.
Just about everything mildly useful these days has an RSS feed, and Facebook notifications are no exception. Since I use Google Reader so much (I pretty much have that tab open ALL THE TIME) it makes sense that the easiest way for me to keep up-to-date with my friends’ Facebook activities (wall posts, photo comments, friend-to-friend interactions, etc.) is through my RSS reader. No effort required! :)
Thank goodness for RSS feeds!
why don’t you just create a label on gmail and archive it straight to the label? it skips the inbox altogether and you have it all neatly in a little archived label folder. it’s amazing :)
RE: karen
because facebook emails really aren’t worth archiving at all. they don’t contain substance and if i’m going to receive reminder-emails, I’d rather they just be notifications through RSS. my inbox is for important things.
plus, the only thing the label was good for was allowing me to quickly mass delete the ‘facebook’ labeled messages at once (they pile up fast). I don’t want to receive email that i know i’ll delete.
So how would I reverse this? I don’t want the RSS feeds any more.