How to Delete notifications on Facebook

There are three methods to hide, stop or delete notifications on Facebook. You know how annoying it is when notifications keep coming. So here goes.

There are many reasons' why Facebook notifications can be quite a pain. This is especially true if you're a gamer and you keep getting game notifications. Also notifications from apps can be quite constant and also make a sound. If you want to turn-off notification sounds - please follow our post here.

A
1. On your News Feed choose the notification you want to hide and point the mouse to the right corner.
2. The word 'Hide' appears. Click on it
3. You are asked if you would like to hide your friend or hide to App.
4. Click on hide the App. (Would mostly be Farmville or petville)

B
1. On the top right hand corner click on 'Account'
2. Click on 'Account Settings'
3. Click on 'Notifications'
3. On the right you will see a long list of Applications that sends you notifications to turn off the notifications. Simple uncheck the box next to the application.


Update: You are now able to delete notifications that come into the Globe Icon on Facebook
To delete notifications that come into the globe icon you would need to

1. Login to Facebook
2. Click on the Globe icon
3. Scroll down and click on ' See All Notifications'
4. A new page opens with shows you all your notifications
5. If you want to delete a notifications you would need to hover on the right-hand side of the notification.
6. Click the (x) mark that appears. You will be asked to 'Mark As Spam' or if the notification is from a third party App. You will be asked to 'Change App Settings'.
7. Click on the appropriate options
8. You're done

Further Update:
Now when you click on the globe icon and then on view all notifications. You can stop all notifications from a certain app by hovering near the right-hand corner. Clicking on the (X) mark that appears and then from the drop-down choose 'Never'. All notifications from this app will then stop. This works also for friends notifications - click on the (X) mark and choose 'Never'. Will work for posts that a lot of people are replying to; groups that you get notifications from etc. A lot of notifications can be stopped by using the x mark that appears beside notifications. 


Latest: You can now click the (x) that appears when you use the drop-down option to view notifications on your Globe Icon. Once the x is clicked you can choose to turnoff all notifications from the app, group or other sources. 

Newest - There is now something called 'Unfollow'. Hover over the right of a notification on the Globe Icon and an (x) appears. Click on it and an Unfollow button pops up. Now you can choose to unfollow by clicking on unfollow or choose keep on to keep receiving notifications from that person.

Please reply with comments and suggestions. 

Please check video below for visuals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButEOgr4Q48