Facebook Demetricator
Hides all the metrics on Facebook
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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/
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User reviews summary
Pros
- Improves Facebook experience
- Removes social comparison aspect
- Allows users to focus on content rather than metrics
Cons
- Not functional for all users
- Does not remove all numbers
- Some issues with the new Facebook interface
Most mentioned
- Doesn't work
- Great idea
- Some numbers still visible
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Safety
Risk impact
Facebook Demetricator is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Facebook Demetricator has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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