Facebook Introduces A Possibly Friendship-Destroying Feature
- Publish date
- Thursday, 17 Sep 2015, 11:33AM

K, now it's just becoming impossible to secretly ignore your friends online...(actually, maybe if you're ignoring them, they're not really your 'friends' but shhh we all have those randoms from high school or work on there).
This new feature from Facebook has been dubbed the 'friendship destruction device'.
Read receipts for events.Â
This is what Facebook’s new friendship destruction device (event read receipts) looks like pic.twitter.com/Nv1IZfnCJ6
— Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) September 14, 2015
We're all familiar with the old read receipts on the Facebook Messenger app:
Now it’s coming to events, making it impossible to pretend you didn’t see the invite to your friend’s boring party.
The only defence is to stop looking at invites… or put false maybes instead of just ignoring people.