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Facebook Take a Break Feature

The company already had such features that let you stop people from pestering you. For example, you can hide your online status on Facebook so that no one can message you when you are just browsing there. But this new feature is user-specific. Here are more details on it.

What’s Take a Break on Facebook?

Facebook’s “Take a Break” feature lets you mute any of your Facebook friends so that you cannot see their posts and vice versa. The best part of this feature is that you can do this without unfriending or blocking anyone. The feature could help in situations where a relationship is over and you do not want to seem rude by blocking or unfriending them.

Here are some points to note after you enable the “take a break” feature for some friend on Facebook:

How to Use Take a Break on Facebook App?

  1. Open the Facebook app and go to that person’s profile and tap on the “Friends” button. After that, choose “Take a Break” from the pop-up menu.
  2. Now, you can customize that user’s activity related to you. Tap on “See Options” under the “See less of (Friend Name)” section and then choose “Limit where you see (Friend Name)”.
  3. After that, tap on “Save” and it will limit that friend’s posts or tagged posts on your feed and timeline. Also, you will not be prompted to message or tag him/her in photos.
  4. Next, tap on “See Options” under the “Limit what (Friend Name) will see” section and choose “Hide your posts from (Friend Name)” and tap “Save”.
  5. It will put that friend on break, and he/she won’t be able to see or interact with any of your Facebook posts. If you have tagged that friend in past posts, he/she can see those posts. In order to put restrictions on those posts: Tap on “See options” under the “Edit who can see past posts” section. Now select “Edit all of my posts and posts that I’m tagged in” and tap on “Save”. This will limit the visibility of all your past posts where you and that friend are tagged. Remove ‘Take a Break’ on Facebook If you want to remove these limitations from that person after some time, you can easily revoke the restrictions in just a few clicks. To reverse these changes: Tap on “Take a break” again from the friend’s profile and open the specific sections and restore the changes to default. This will enable that friend to see your posts and message you again. This feature is not available on the Facebook web. So you cannot enable this on a PC browser but this can be done on the mobile browser. The steps are the same as the app. This was all about Facebook Take a Break feature. What are your opinions on this? Do you find this feature useful? Do let us know in the comments!