This Facebook App Gives Annoying Friends a ‘Time Out’
Sure, you have the option to hide any objectionable post in your News Feed (it’s under a small arrow that appears to the right of any given post). You can also mute or unfriend people entirely.
But where’s the fun in that? How will your offensive friends know that they need to mend their posting ways?
Enter Defriendtion, a free Facebook app that posts a detention note-style warning to any given friend’s Timeline. You can choose how long of a “time out” you’re going to give them, and also post the warning to Twitter.
The app doesn’t actually restrict your friends’ content in any way. We’d love it if there were some way to automate the process of muting and unmuting someone, so that you could give a friend an honest-to-goodness time out — and have their posts pop back in to your News Feed at a specified time.
But Facebook won’t let third-party apps have that kind of control over the Feed. You’d have to set your own reminder to unmute someone if you want your Defriendtion slip to have real consequences.
Still, if you’re looking to add a pinch of drama to your relationships, this is one way to go. Who knows, it may actually have an effect.
“For everyone who wants to be able to ‘call out’ their friends for their annoying and sometimes questionable activities, Defriendtion is the perfect way to let that person and all your friends know about it,” says Chris Heller, the app’s creator.
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