As we use social networks, we accumulate too much information that the platforms use to personalize different kinds of advertisements. The problem is that it is not limited solely to that. Have you ever noticed that when entering the social network we find suggested publications? Worst of all is that many times we are not even interested. That's why it's critical to reset your social media feeds ..
Since we've been doing this, we've noticed a noticeable increase in what's actually interesting and relevant to us. Little by little, social networks begin to accumulate data with which, algorithmically or chronologically, they decide what we are seeing.
It is time to take control of our own social network and decide what we really want to see every time we enter the platform. One of the ways to achieve this is by resetting the feeds and changing a few things in the settings of each social network..
Reset social media feeds
Youtube
First we will have to go to the Library tab, then choose See all at the top of the playback history. We will have to scroll through everything we have seen and press the three dots on the right side, we will choose to delete from viewing history; which will also remove it from the recommended ones.
Although we can delete the history in one go. For this we are going to go to Settings, then to History and privacy and we will click on Clear playback history to start again..
We can also click Manage all activity and tell YouTube and other Google services to remove all activity after a period of time. Ideally, every 12-18 months.
instagram
We go to Settings > Ads > Ad Themes to see a list of all the categories that advertisers can use to connect with us. If we see one that we don't want, we simply click on it and choose See less.
We are going to go to our profile, we will click on Following in the upper right part and we will choose the category with which we interact the least. We will stop following everything that does not interest us.
Facebook
We go to Settings and privacy > Settings and choose Your time on Facebook. We can hit View Settings under Get More of Your Time and then we go to News Preferences. Here we can add or delete people from the Favorites list and Unfollow in order to control how often they appear in the feed.
Again in Settings and privacy> Settings, we will have to go to Permissions and choose Ad preferences. Here we are going to select Ad Themes at the top of the page, we will be able to see and edit all the themes that advertisers think we are interested in.
LinkedIn
From Settings and privacy> Advertising data> Categories of interest, we will be able to see everything that the social network thinks we are interested in and we will be able to deactivate everything that, in reality, does not attract our attention.
