How do you turn off notifications on Facebook?

Go to your Facebook settings page and click Notifications in the left column. Next go to your applications, and you will see an envelope with a number next to them. Click the Edit button associated with them, and you can unclick what you do not want to receive emails for. Make sure to Save Changes at the bottom. read more

In-app notifications: sent when you're using Facebook. These show up as numbers over the in Facebook's navigation, or over the Facebook app on your phone. You can't turn in-app notifications off completely, but you can choose what you get notified about. read more

Click Close Friend Activity, then click On Facebook. Click next to Close Friends activity, then select On or Off If you're getting notifications when people post and they aren't on your Close Friends list, learn how to receive fewer notifications. read more

Wade through the tangled mess of Facebook notification settings Facebook likes to do a lot of "opt out" rather than "opt in" changes on its app updates, and the most recent culprit is a new persistent notification for users to keep up with their Facebook notifications at all times. read more