Facebook Demetricator
What is Facebook Demetricator?
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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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spammy, or outdated.- Great idea to reduce social comparison on Facebook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
- 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
- Non-functional for many users
- Requests for updates and improvements
- Desire for option to customize features (like date removal)
- General appreciation for the concept
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Sci, 2022-03-10 
David Chung, 2021-08-30 
Colo H, 2021-08-18Extension 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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