Facebook has just introduced a feature that will help you manage your broken relationship. Interestingly, Facebook says this feature will help to improve your Facebook experience when the relationship ends. It will help people manage how they interact with their former partners on Facebook after a relationship has ended.
Starting from today, when you change your relationship status to indicate you are no longer in a relationship, you will be prompted to try the following tools:
The tools give people the option to quickly and easily:
See less of a former partner’s name and profile picture around Facebook without having to unfriend or block them. Their posts won’t show up in News Feed and their name won’t be suggested when people write a new message or tag friends in photos.
Limit the photos, videos or status updates that a former partner will see.
Edit who can see their past posts with a former partner and untag themselves from posts with that person.
Facebook is starting to test these tools today in the US on mobile, and they’ll make changes and roll them out further based on people’s feedback. All of these tools are optional, and people will be able to access them in the help center anytime.
