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whatever your thoughts on Valentine's Day seeing lovey-dovey updates in your newsfeed can be kind of sucky I'm Lexus avedis your Nokia cupid for cnet taking you through ways on how to block Valentine's Day updates from Facebook and Twitter first up Facebook you'll need to install a browser extension to block certain keywords that friends and brands might use download social fixer for facebook which works on Chrome Firefox Safari and opera once its installed Facebook will look a little bit different and have a wrench icon in the top toolbar click it and choose edit social fixer options from this window find the filtering option and enter the keywords you want to block now this extension uses regular expressions but don't be freaked out by the slashes and pipes it's actually really simple to use in the matching tab box start off your filter with a forward slash then a keyword after every keyword enter a pipe symbol or a vertical bar keep entering keywords that you want to filter like Valentine's Valentine's Day v-day februari 14 and so on and the expression with another forward slash and the letter I to filter upper and lowercase words then in the action column hide the matches press save and reload your feet while are all references to Valentine's Day will now be gone on Twitter there are a couple of different ways to block keywords and hashtags I'm going to focus on tweetdeck find the COG and click settings in the mute tab select text content you can either filter by specific hashtags like hashtag VD or just plain old keywords click done and your twitter is blissfully free of sappiness for more information on getting your v-day Grinch on visit the how-to article on cnet com you