新华网8月27日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，你是否已经厌倦了Facebook上无休无止的冰桶挑战？只要挑战不停，你就得一直忍受下去。幸运的是，这一状况终于得到了改善。Facebook创造了一个它亟需的功能：一个真正的“静音按钮”。
Twitter就拥有这样的静音功能，可以在不解除关注的情况下屏蔽掉特定用户。很酷吧？Facebook确实也需要这样的功能。现在，Facebook用户可以选择屏蔽特定的人或网页。如果你跟我一样，宁愿跳窗都不想看到冰桶挑战，那么，这项功能无异是天大的好消息。
今天是冰桶挑战，明天或许又有别的什么。每四年，关于总统候选人的讨论也是一个重大的社会议题。上周，我的Facebook页面上出现了轻微的种族主义的对话，这也让我恨不得屏蔽掉一些特定的词语。
让某人在Twitter“静音”可使你远离那些你不愿意介入的对话。有时候，你看到一条带有侵犯性质的状态或评论，或者是你完全不同意的观点，你试图保持沉默，却发现自己根本做不到。事后十有八九，你会后悔自己曾介入其中。静音功能可以帮助你远离这些无谓的对话。
现在，Facebook增加取消订阅功能，的确是值得欢呼的事情。当然啦，为了我们在网络上的友谊和理智，这项功能还需要更明确的界定。
译者：王俊景
Facebook Needs a Real Mute Button
Sick of seeing all the ice bucket challenge videos on Facebook? Too bad, my friend, you’re stuck with them until the end of time. That is, until Facebook creates the one option it needs most: A real mute button.
Twitter has a mute feature that lets you unfollow a specific user without actually unfollowing them. The subtweet of all subtweets! It’s glorious, and Facebook needs something comparable. As it stands now, Facebook lets you unsubscribe from a specific person or page, but not a topic. And good god, if you’re anything like me, you’re going to kick out a window if you have to see another ice bucket challenge video autoplay in your feed.
This month—or however long it takes a billion-odd people to pour buckets of ice over their heads—it’s the ice bucket challenge clogging up your feed, but tomorrow it will be something else. This time last year it was probably Miley Cyrus and twerking (I know because I muted her). Every fourth year, it’s about which presidential candidate is best and why the other one sucks and is a socialist. Last week, the dialogue on my Facebook feed turned slightly racist, and I found myself wishing I could block out choice words and phrases.
Muting someone on Twitter helps you stay out of conversations you know you shouldn’t get into. From time to time you’ll see a post or a comment that you find offensive or know is just flat wrong—and try as you might to keep your lips sealed, you have to—you just have to—jump in. Nine times out of ten, you regret putting in your two cents. A mute option would help you maintain the dignity of staying out of it—what ever the “it” du jour is. And it’s almost always better to stay out of it.
For now, Facebook lets you unsubscribe. You should exercise that feature often. (I do!). But it needs to be more specific than that for the sake of our internet-based relationships—and our sanity.
