How to avoid spoilers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

In many ways, 2019 will likely exist remembered every bit the end of an era in pop-culture.

Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios' unprecedented culmination of more than than 20 superhero films, will bring an stop to at least a few dear heroes' stories when it hits theatres on April 26th. Meanwhile, the ongoing 8th and final season of HBO's massively popular Game of Thronesis fix to wrap up in May.

Finally, Lucasfilm'south Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is set to wrap up the iconic Skywalker Saga that started fashion back in 1977.

All of that is to say that at that place are many highly anticipated movies and shows this year that people will, unfortunately, endeavour to spoil for one another. Indeed, waiting several years or fifty-fifty decades to see something through to its cease, just to have the surprise prematurely ruined, tin can exist quite disappointing. This is the fright that many Marvel fans are experiencing right now equally major Endgame spoilers take started running rampant on the internet.

Thankfully, in that location are a number of tools you can apply on social media to help stay clear of spoilers. Specifically, these social networks offer features that let you mute certain keywords from appearing in your feeds, a particularly useful tool in avoiding spoilers.

Hither's how you tin enable these features:

Facebook

Unfortunately, while Facebook tested a 'keyword snooze' feature last July to let users mute individual spoiler words, it isn't available now.

That said, you can still snooze private people, Pages or Groups that you think might be talking about whatever yous're trying to avoid. To do this, go to 'Settings & Privacy,' select 'Settings,' scroll down to 'News Feed Settings' and choose 'News Feed Preferences.' From there,

From hither, you lot can also prioritize which people, Pages or Groups you desire to see beginning in the News Feed. This could be useful if you nonetheless want to briefly pop onto Facebook to come across what's up with particular friends or family unit right at the top of your feed, all while still fugitive any spoilers.

Additionally, you might desire to make sure your privacy settings are up to engagement and so people you don't know or trust tin can't driblet spoilers on your posts. To practice this, go to the 'Privacy Shortcuts' tab and select 'Public Posts.' Here, you tin choose if you want to enable anyone to comment on your posts or limit this ability to friends of friends or just friends.

Instagram

Instagram doesn't let yous filter out all posts related to specific topics, but you can at least control who you lot follow and what you encounter in your feed.

If you're like me and follow whatsoever Marvel fan accounts (or other fandom equivalents), you might also want to mute or unfollow them entirely just in instance. To practise that, visit the profile, click the 'Post-obit' icon and select 'Mute.' From here, you'll exist able to mute posts and/or stories from this profile and so you won't see them in your feeds. These accounts can exist unfollowed from this 'Following' section besides.

Meanwhile, if you're post-obit a particular hashtag (for example, #AvengersEndgame), yous may desire to unfollow that also. Exercise this past searching for the hashtag in the search bar nether 'Tags' and cull to unfollow.

Additionally, yous can manage who can comment on your posts so some random person tin can't target yous with spoilers. Enable this by visiting 'Settings,' then security, 'Privacy and Security,' and finally, 'Annotate Controls.' In this section, you can cull to but permit your followers and/or people yous follow comment on your posts. Alternatively, yous can turn on a manual filter and put in specific words or phrases that y'all want hidden from your posts.

Finally, you can even make your account private if yous don't already past going to 'Privacy and Security,' 'Account Privacy' and turning on 'Private Account.' That way, only those who already follow y'all tin collaborate with yous.

Twitter

Twitter has by far the near robust lineup of muting tools of the main three social media platforms.

To take advantage of them, go to 'Settings and privacy,' and so 'Notifications' and finally, 'Muted' under the 'Filters' section. In here, yous tin can mute individual accounts and words from actualization to you on Twitter. The 'Muted words' feature is particularly useful since you can put in any number of keywords that you lot don't desire to see pop up in your Twitter feed. You lot can mute tweets for 24 hours, seven days, 30 days or forever.

Just similar the other platforms, you can also mute or unfollow individual profiles that you are wary of. Unfollowing is equally elementary as pressing the 'Following' button and confirming you desire to unfollow. More advanced settings like muting and blocking tin can exist plant past clicking the three dots in the superlative-correct.

Of form, the only way to completely avoid cyberspace spoilers is to go dark entirely. That said, that'south not ever easy to do if you need to go online for whatsoever number of other reasons. And so for those that exercise, these features will certainly help.

Be careful, friends, for the night is dark and full of spoilers.