Demetricator extension removes ‘like’ and friend counts from your Facebook page
It’s hard to imagine a Facebook without likes, shares, or even timestamps, but that’s exactly the world created by Facebook Demetricator — a browser extension that strips all social metrics from your Facebook account. Available on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, the Demetricator is the brainchild of Ben Grosser, who wanted to see how the Facebook experience would change in the absence of quantifiable social indicators. With Grosser’s add-on, all counts of likes, shares, and friend counts are wiped away and replaced with more generic, less quantifiable metrics. “20 people like this,” for instance, becomes simply “people like this,” and a timestamp of “10 hours ago” becomes “recently.” The Demetricator only erases numbers automatically…
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Demetricator extension removes ‘like’ and friend counts from your Facebook page
