Wonderful option from FACEBOOK to disable alerts from friends

Are you getting unnecesary updates from your friends?
Facebook have very good option. We can disable the alerts from the particular application or also we can totally disable the alerts from user.

Just keep your mouse on the top of the update/alert on your facebook home page you will get option saying hide. Once you select you will get the option like "HIDE USER" or "HIDE "

Here is the image for your reference