If you use Facebook, you’ve no doubt seen countless "popular items" from your networks cluttering up your news feed. You’re probably also tired of countless announcements of movie trivia contests and "likeness tests" too. Worse yet, there’s no setting to remove notifications from your friends’ apps from the news feed, so you’re stuck with a lot of spam in the news feed.
However, I’ve found a way to hide updates from any single Facebook application and at the same time get rid of the useless "popular items" posts. It’s really easy: