How to mark your Facebook notifications as read

Facebook gives you two options for marking notifications as read without actually reading them:

To mark all of your notifications as read at once:

- Click on the globe icon at the top of the Facebook site to show the Notifications list
- At the top of the list, select Mark All as Read

To mark an individual notification as read:

- Click on the globe icon at the top of the Facebook site to show the Notifications list
- Hover over the notification that you want to mark as read
- On the right, an ellipsis (...) will appear, and underneath that will be a single dot (.)
- Hover over the dot
- "Mark As Read" will appear; click on the dot to mark the notification as read