Several times a month, Facebook users receive this message: “You are one of XYZ’s top fans. Get your badge now.”

It's not as if you don't get enough notifications as a Facebook user, whether someone commented on a post or something was liked. But over the last few months, the top fan “awards” have been raining down on us, as many users and we ourselves have noticed.

What was Facebook thinking?

Now Facebook has already thought something about this function, as “ AllFacebook ” reports.
In the future, Facebook page administrators will have the opportunity to make certain posts visible only to the top fans. This is attractive for some operators and users, for example discount codes for products or advance ticket sales for concerts could only be visible to the top users, which in turn encourages fans to be more active on the site, which in turn increases interactions on the site increases. A win-win situation... if it only worked, because you often become a top fan just by liking a post or posting an emoji under an amount. Many users also report that they didn't interact with a page at all, but were still regularly named a top fan.

[mk_ad]

“But I don’t want top fans!”

However, site operators have it in their own hands whether such notifications are sent to the site's fans from their site. Considering that this feature is still very immature and has not yet provided any real benefit, you may want to protect your fans from constantly being chosen as the top fan.

And fortunately, this is quite easy to do, as we show you here:

On the PC:

Go to your page, click on Settings [1] and on Facebook profile banner [2]:

Deactivate Top Fan on the PC
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You can now easily deactivate the badges there:

Deactivate Top Fan on the PC
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On the smartphone:

Here you first go to Community [1] on your site, then to Manage [2], and there you can then deactivate the badges [3]

Deactivate Top Fan on your cell phone
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Conclusion

Top fan = flop feature. The little diamond has no real use yet; it's more annoying at the moment to be chosen as a top fan by at least one site every day. Fortunately, site operators have the option to deactivate this function.

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