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You can disable/block a lot of those types of updates. I get very few automated updates, and it's very easy to block automated updates from apps people might use. I only say this because I don't see "X is now friends with 10 new people" or notifications that "X changed their profile pic." You can disable a lot of these notifications by clicking the little X on each post, and blocking the specific item you want to block.

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If you click the X it removes the specific story you clicked on. It does not (at least in the fb version I am being served) block all stories of the same type, nor do I see any option to do so.

I click on the X, and it gives me the option to block all stories coming form an App (as well as other options).

That being said, I remember the first time I discovered that. For the longest time, I just assumed it would remove only the post.

Odd.

From an App. You have no option to remove such stories that Facebook generates itself, without any apps.

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