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title: "Set up your social feed for what you came to do"
description: "A practical way to choose what stays visible and what you move out of sight."
url: https://boslaai.co/blog/social-feed-controls-by-intent
language: en
---

# Set up your social feed for what you came to do

> A practical way to choose what stays visible and what you move out of sight.

_Darwish · 2026-11-05_

You open a social platform to check a message. Before you get there, a row of Stories and a recommended video offer two other things to do. The easiest way to change that visit is to change what you see on the way in.

## Give each visit a clear purpose

Finish this sentence before opening the site: “I'm here to ___.” Maybe you're checking messages from a client or looking for posts about product research. A specific purpose tells you which parts of the site deserve a shortcut. Save a bookmark to your inbox, a group you use, or a creator's page if that's where you want to land.

## Choose the right kind of control

If a section keeps pulling you away, look for a way to hide that section or go straight to the page you need. If the problem is what shows up in the main feed, start with topic preferences. If the posts you want come from a handful of accounts, give those accounts a direct route through a list or bookmarks.

A designer might keep research posts easy to reach and move short clips out of the work routine. Someone checking on friends might keep their Stories and reduce entertainment recommendations. Start with the part that interrupts the visit you care about.

## Test one change

Change one thing and try it on your next few visits. Check whether you reached what you came for and whether anything useful became harder to find. That trade-off is the idea behind Social Control at BOSLA AI. The controls should reflect what you came to do.