How To Keep Social Readers From Spamming All Your Facebook Friends

Here's how not to spam your friends with what you're reading in The Washington Post Social Reader -- learn how to do this with one of the apps, and then you can apply it to the other social readers.

Do you want every one of your friends to know what you are reading online? Didn’t think so.

Surely you’ve noticed that the social reader applications your friends are using put lots of stories into your news feed, taking up a lot of space that other things might occupy instead.

Let’s look at how not to spam your friends with what you’re reading in The Washington Post Social Reader — learn how to do this with one of the apps, and then you can apply it to the other social readers.

If you’re about to install the app and don’t want anyone but you to know what you’re reading, simply choose the “only me” option and nothing that you do with the app will be shared.

If

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