Social media can make one's life a real dramaAnd it is that friendships, publications and contact with certain people can become tense or uncomfortable, especially when talking about failed relationships For this reason Facebook has created some tools to break up with your ex on the social network and avoid problems as much as possible.Something that helps make the transition a little less painful and past posts, comments on shared statuses, or other issues related to that person, no longer so special don't be virtual stabs to the heart
This is a series of tools that, for the moment, are experimental Thus, Facebook has begun testing them on the mobile version of its social network in the United States, although it plans to expand and improve them thanks to thecomments and feedback from early adopters. What does it consist on? Read on to find out.
When active for everyone, these tools will appear when you change relationship status with another userThus, if you no longer have a formal relationship with someone, these functionalities come into action that prevent, in general, seeing the ex's content, knowing their publications, receiving updates on the content in which they were tagged together, or that their names and labels arise for other mutual friends.
In this way, the first thing that can be seen when breaking a relationship with another contact is the possibility to reduce the appearance of posts from that person in the Latest section User news In addition, the name of the ex will not appear as a suggestion when writing new posts or comments, both for the user as for the friends of this user.
Similarly, you can also limit the number of posts, articles, photos, or videos your ex can see from your profileThat is, prevent the other person from knowing details of your life through your own publications.Of course, you will be able to see those contents in which you are directly mentioned, if they are shared on the walls of mutual friends , or those that are shared publicly
Finally, another feature available to breakups on Facebook is the ability to edit the privacy of past joint posts with an ex to limit who can see them. Something useful to prevent clueless friends from seeing details of the past with that person Thus, it is possible to leave this content as is , choose post to post who can see it, or even untagging all of them to avoid any kind of relationship
At this time, these features are only available to the North American public via mobile.All this in order to testr its usefulness and improve it before taking it to other countries around the world And it seems that Facebook wants to make breakups easy on their social network. Or at least avoid suffering and the memory by seeing common reminders and posts. At the moment all that remains is to wait, with no official date yet, for the arrival of this battery of measures to Spain
