Facebook Demetricator

Hides all the metrics on Facebook
What is Facebook Demetricator?
Facebook Demetricator is a unique Chrome extension that aims to disrupt the way we perceive our social value online by removing all numerical metrics such as friend counts, likes and comments from Facebook's interface. It presents a non-quantified version of the platform that focuses on qualitative interaction rather than quantitative popularity.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.11 (37)
Version: 1.7.7 (Last updated: 2019-07-24)
Creation date: 2019-07-23
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 99.12K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Facebook Demetricator is a Chrome extension that hides all the metrics on Facebook.

What are these metrics that it removes? The Facebook interface is filled with numbers.These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Your friend count, the number of likes under a photo, how many messages you have waiting, etc...these are all Facebook metrics.

Facebook Demetricator allows you to hide (and show) these metrics. No longer is the focus on how many friends you have or on how much they like your status, but on who they are and what they said. Friend counts disappear. '16 people like this' becomes 'people like this'.

Through changes like these, Demetricator invites you to try the system without the numbers, to see how your experience is changed by their absence. Thus, with this extension I aim to disrupt the prescribed sociality these metrics produce, enabling a network society that isn't dependent on quantification.

For more information, please see http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/

User reviews

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Pros
  • Great idea to reduce social comparison on Facebook
  • Works well for some users
  • Helps users focus on content rather than metrics
  • Many users appreciate the concept of the extension
Cons
  • Does not work for many users on various platforms
  • Lacks functionality with the new Facebook interface
  • Does not remove all social metrics (like icons, names of people who liked)
  • Became buggy after Facebook's introduction of reactions
Most mentioned
  • Non-functional for many users
  • Requests for updates and improvements
  • Desire for option to customize features (like date removal)
  • General appreciation for the concept
Recent reviews
Hi Ben, Would u update it anytime sooner? It's is non-fuctional now.
by Sci, 2022-03-10

downloaded the extension after reading about it in The Guardian 8/15, doesn't work (at least on Chrome for Mac)
by David Chung, 2021-08-30

Would love to try it but it isn't working at the moment.
by Colo H, 2021-08-18
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Facebook Demetricator requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Facebook Demetricator has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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