According to the Company’s product manager, Kelly Winters, the feature will allow people who have split up with a spouse or partner, to turn on an option that spares them the emotional pain of constantly seeing their ex-lover’s posts and pictures in their news feed.
Winters also said, Facebook will begin testing the break-up protection on mobile devices in the US before deciding whether to offer it to all of its 1.5 billion account holders worldwide.
Winters said: “We are testing tools to help people manage how they interact with their former partners on Facebook after a relationship has ended.
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“When people change their relationship status to indicate they are no longer in a relationship, they will be prompted to try these tools.”
Users can use the tools to see less of a former husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend’s name and profile picture at Facebook without having to “unfriend” or block the person.