Facebook Might Soon Allow Users To Mute Comments With Selected Words, Phrases

I guess most of people would agree that Facebook may not be a very positive place in the world. Some Facebook users can sometimes be really annoying and make other people unpleasant with their comments. But Jane Machun Wong, a research, has got a new finding in the Facebook app that can actually bring people hope for getting a better and nicer experience.

She posted a screenshot on her Twitter account revealing that users will soon be allowed to ban words, phrases and also emojis from any comment on their posts. However, your friends and people who post comments including those banned words can still see them.

While there is already a spam filter offered in Facebook for comments, this feature can enable users to get rid of the targeted hate speech and harassment from comments on their posts.

Instagram, a social network platform for sharing photos owned by Facebook, already lets its users to filter any comment on their own posts through keywords. Twitter also offers a similar feature that allows users to block out particular words as well as phrases from timelines.

While this new feature is definitely welcome by most of users, your mileage can vary as you will be the one coming up with the list of words that you want to add to the filter to ban them from your posts. Facebook also may suggest you with some lists of words to choose from, but it may miss out some particular words that are not really common or used a lot in other languages. There are also possibilities that users can find a way to get around this filter feature.

I hope that this new feature will also allow me to mute and ban words from my own timeline. I am pretty tired of the posts with quotes that people think will make them sound more profound. Hopefully, Facebook will roll out this feature in the recent future.