Congratulations! The digital world has invited you to virtually attend Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of England's marriage this weekend.
Frankly, you don't give a damn. But the internet won't let you off the hook so easily. Your news feeds will be littered with the #RoyalFamily and #WhenHarryMetMeg musings unless you do some work to cinch off the firehose before the event begins.
Prepare your platforms, adjust your settings, download extensions and escape the royal wedding with the following prudent suggestions. The event starts early Saturday morning in the US, so do it now. It's not too late!
Mute It on Twitter
Want to log on to twitter and NOT have #PrinceHarry kidnap your feed? Simple. Locate your profile icon in the upper right corner of your Twitter homepage. Click on it and drop down to "Settings and Privacy."
On the Settings and Privacy page, go to the left and find the option labeled "Muted Words". When you mute words on Twitter, tweets containing those words will not appear in your notifications or timeline. You're able to mute one word, phrase, hashtag or @username at a time. Start by muting "Royal Wedding 2018" and #RoyalWedding2018. Do the same for "Prince Harry", "Megan Markle", "Harry and Megan" and "Royal Family". You can adjust muting time from just 24 hours to one week to ... forever! Make sure you choose the option to mute those words them from everyone on Twitter, not just people you follow. That should wipe most royally love-addled suckers out.
Mute It on Facebook
Facebook doesn't allow you to mute specific words. You can mute specific people in your News Feed who are obsessed with the wedding and post about it a lot (go to Settings...