Facebook Wants To Help You Get Over Your Ex Because you're never, ever, ever getting back together.
Breaking up is hard to do — always has been, always will be. But it’s even more challenging in the social media age, when all your memories and relationships are stored forever and accessible with one click. How are you supposed to move on from your ex if you’re constantly bombarded by their selfies, statuses and, even worse, new relationship updates?
Now, Facebook is testing new tools that will allow users to digitally distance themselves from their exes after relationships end. Here’s how it’ll work: After you break up with someone and change your relationship status accordingly, Facebook will automatically display options to see less of your ex’s name and photos, allowing you some space without the aggressive and sometimes awkward permeance of unfriending them.
Users will be able to block He or She Who Must Not Be Named from showing up in their news feeds, or just opt to see less of them in general. You can also make sections of your profile invisible to your exes and untag yourself in past posts and photos with that person (and your ex won’t be notified that you’ve made those changes).
It’s like Taylor Swift's “Picture to Burn” for the digital age, once you realize you’re never, ever, ever getting back together. Giphy “This work is part of our ongoing effort to develop resources for people who may be going through difficult moments in their lives,” Kelly Winters, a Product Manager for Facebook, wrote in a blog post. “We hope these tools will help people end relationships on Facebook with greater ease, comfort and sense of control.”
Facebook is currently testing these features in the U.S. for mobile users, and will make them available in the near future. Until then, remember: You are stronger than the temptation to cyber stalk your ex. YOU GOT THIS!
Madeline Roth
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