Facebook Needs A Mute Button

Facebook needs a “mute” button, rants Leslie Horn of Gizmodo.

Why Facebook should create a mute button like Twitter

Noting that she is tired of seeing endless buckets of ice being mindlessly dumped on people to promote their own vanity, Horn notes that users of the service will be stuck with such content “until the end of time.” Or, that is, until Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) creates a mute button similar to Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) .

With Twitter, a user can unfollow someone but not officially unfollow them.  The user can “turn off” the tweets from a user while still officially following that...