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| Facebook is testing a way to mute Keyword snoozing |
Today Facebook announced it's testing a snooze option, which can allow users to temporarily hide any posts from their timeline that contain keywords they’ve marked. The feature is being rolled out to a little group of users nowadays and if it’s offered for you, it'll seem within the choices among a post’s upper-right drop-down menu.
The option to snooze all content from an individual for 30 days has been available since last December. This new method of snoozing stops you from seeing particular types of content for 30 days no matter who is posting it. If, for example, you still haven’t seen the Westworldfinale and don’t want to have anything spoiled for you, you could set “Westworld” as a keyword to be muted for a month.
The caveat here is that there is no place on Facebook to manually input your chosen keywords. In order to set a keyword to snooze, you’ll have to find a post that contains the word in question, then select “Snooze keywords in this post,” from the post’s drop-down menu. It’s a little self-defeating, and a Facebook spokesperson tells TechCrunch it’s considering other options for keyword snooze in the future, like a recurring list, or a pre-emptive snooze option in News Feed Preferences. Keyword snooze only works on posts that contain text, but ads are exempt.
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