How to Stop Getting Email from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+

Nowadays, the inbox of many people is full of email notifications of various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. If you can deal with them, this is fine to get such email every day. If you do not know how to handle tons of messages from numerous social networking sites, you can follow this tutorial to stop getting an email from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google Plus.

How to Stop Getting Email from Facebook

You can get all the notifications of Facebook in your Inbox, and Facebook is more than enough to make a clutter in your Inbox. Facebook can send these notifications via email:

Post on your timeline
Pokes
Tags of your photos
Likes on your posts
Tags of your videos
Comments on stories on your timeline
Comments after you on timeline stories
Comments on posts you’re tagged in
Posts from Close Friends
Comments on your posts to groups
Updates to an event you’ve joined

In simple words, if you want to stop opening Facebook but you want to get Facebook notifications, you can turn on email notification. However, that thing can waste your time a lot in the morning. Therefore, if you have enabled such options or you want to turn them off, here is what you need to so.

Step 1: Open Facebook account and sign into your account with valid credentials.

Step 2: Click the drop-down button visible next to the Notification button and select Settings.

Step 3: From the left-hand side options, select Notifications.

Alternatively, you can open this page as well.

Step 4: Expand the Email section, where you can find all Email related settings.

After opening, you can get all the options those are possible. Choose these to stop email notifications:

Turn off email notifications about comments that are added to your live video conversations

Turn off email notifications about offers you have saved

Only notifications about your account, security, and privacy

How to Stop Getting Email from Twitter

Like Facebook, Twitter can send a lot of things via email, and it can also create noise in your Inbox. Hence, you may have to waste your morning every day to get rid of those mails. To be more specific, Twitter can check following things via email:

You have new notifications
You’re sent a direct message
Someone emails a Tweet to you
Top Tweets and Stories
Updates about the performance of your Tweets
News about Twitter product and feature updates
Tips on getting more out of Twitter
Things you missed since you last logged into Twitter
News about Twitter on partner products and other third-party services
Participation in Twitter research surveys
Suggestions for recommended accounts
Suggestions based on your recent follows
Tips on Twitter business products

Some of the emails can arrive weekly, and some of them can arrive daily. It doesn’t matter whether you don’t want to receive a daily or weekly message, you can follow this tutorial.

Step 1: Open Twitter and log into your Twitter account with valid credentials.

Step 2: Click the avatar visible on the top-right corner or in the navigation menu bar and select Settings and privacy.

Step 3: Switch from Account tab to Email notifications tab.

Step 4: You can find a button labeled Email is enabled. By default, it should show as Turn off. You need to click on this button to turn off all the notification message at once.

How to Stop Getting Email from Pinterest

Pinterest is an image sharing platform, and it can deliver a lot of email message to your Inbox those are more than enough to waste the whole day. Generally, Pinterest sends out email related to these:

Boards picked for you
New followers and activity on your Pins
Pins inspired by your recent activity
Pins picked for you
Pins picked for you by category
Pins picked for your inactive boards
Topics picked for you
Group board updates: Sports & Outdoors – Daily Deals
Group board updates: Watches – Daily Deals

If you do not like the get email notifications related to anything, you can follow these steps.

Step 1: Open Pinterest and sign into your account with valid username and password.

Step 2: Hove your mouse over your profile picture visible in the top-right corner and select Settings.

Alternatively, you can click this link to open the same page.

Step 3: Switch from Business Account Basics to Notifications tab.

Step 4: Click the Edit button visible next to the by email label.

Step 5: Select Turn off email (except required privacy/account emails) and Turn off business emails (except required billing receipts/security alerts).

Step 6: Don’t forget to save your change by clicking the Save settings button.

How to Stop Getting Email from LinkedIn

Although LinkedIn is quite different from other social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ there is a similarity between LinkedIn and those sites. They all send a lot of email to their account holders. LinkedIn can send an email message for:

Invitations
Messages
Notifications
Network updates
Jobs opportunities
News
Group updates
Messages on LinkedIn
Messages from LinkedIn Learning
Messages from LinkedIn Events

To manage the email preference of LinkedIn, you need to follow the following steps.

Step 1: Open LinkedIn and log into your account with your email ID and password.

Step 2: Click your profile picture visible next to the Notifications button and select Settings & Privacy.

Step 3: Switch from Account tab to Communications tab.

Step 4: In that tab, you can find an option called Email frequency. You need to click the corresponding Change button.

Step 5: You can find toggle button to stop getting emails from various categories.

How to Stop Getting Email from Google Plus

Google Plus can show notifications related to many things. Being a social networking site, you can get tons of email notifications in your Inbox. For example,

Has mentioned you in a post
Has shared a post with you directly
Has shared a post, and they’re in a circle that you subscribe to
Has commented on a post that you created
Has commented on a post after you’d commented on it
Has shared or commented on your content across the web (for example, your YouTube videos or your blog)
Follows you on Google+
Has suggested a profile photo for you
Has invited you to an event or updated an event that you’re invited to
Has sent a reminder about an event that you’re invited to
Has taken an action on an event that you created
Has invited you to a Google+ community
Has shared something with a community that you get notifications from
Adds you to a Google+ community
Has voted on a poll that you created
Is following a collection that you created
Has shared a collection that you created
Has shared something with a collection that you get notifications from