[pesenti]

You need to turn off email notifications but carefully select which groups to leave notifications on for (and some you can use the “highlight” setting). Then every day or two you can use the “notifications” tool (the link on the left side bar) and quickly check all your notifications exhaustively and be sure not to miss anything (and as you do that refine your list of groups).

Used this way it’s an amazing tool for cross team collaboration, way superior to Slack which I used in my previous job but couldn’t keep up with.

Disclaimer: I just joined Facebook.

[dmitriid]

So, basically, spend countless hours tuning the most basic functionality. Skip the most useful functionality, as it's unusable (timeline and search, see other comments).

What an amazing tool though.

[pesenti]

It takes no time to tune. If you see notifications from groups that bring little value, just turn them off. Very simple and natural process.

[dmitriid]

> carefully select which groups to leave notifications on for > every day or two you can use the “notifications” tool > as you do that refine your list of groups

So, continuous tuning for no reason at all.

Let's add things from other comments, shall we?

> The feed is pretty much useless. > You tune notifications to catch the “must read” stuff and filter out the rest of the noise. > STFU notifications, then carefully tune back in. > The feed is crap. Do not read the feed. Make a bookmark bar their search is crap.

etc. etc.