How to stop spam in facebook

Step #1 – Create a custom list

In the left navigation of your Facebook home page their is a Friends option. This section allows you to create a custom friends list. Hovering over the Friends title will show an option called ‘More’. Select this option and choose the ‘Create List’ option.

Step #2 – Add to the list

This is where you add the people who you want to be able to dictate the visibility of their posts. Yo could add every one of your friends, or the select few who are always the culprits for liking and commenting on rubbish content. Alternatively, you can break down into family, workmates, local friends, anything you want.
This is also handy for being able to dictate what content you create that you mightn’t want other to see (IE: Those drunken Halloween photos that maybe your boss and nanna shouldn’t probably be made aware of)

Step #3 – Setting permissions

Now you have your list of people, you can choose what interaction you want to have with them. Select the list, and in the top right corner there is an option to ‘Manage List’. Select the ‘ Choose Update Types…’ option.

Step #4 – Choosing settings

Now all you have to do is deselect the options you don’t want to see from these people. To eliminate the spam stuff, deselect the ‘comments and likes’ option.  You can be as brutal as you want here of course, but remember that deselecting these options mean you will no longer see anything they like or comment on in your feed anymore – including the non spam stuff.
That’ll take care of a lot of the rubbish from your newsfeed with the exception of sponsored posts and Facebook ads of course, but it’s a good start.