Instagram purge your ex

Breakups are painful. You know what’s even more painful? Having to see someone you once cared for deeply all over your social media feeds. One solution to this problem is to not post about your significant other, but another would be to find a way to remove those memories more efficiently.

Meta has an enormous trove of data and I bet they could programmatically detect significant others even if you never explicitly mention that you are dating someone. If that is the case, what if, after not posting any content with this person for a while, it checked to see if you were still dating them? From there, it could ask if you wanted to purge any mention of this person from your account.

The level of personal privacy invasion required to implement feels like a bit of an overstep, but at the same time, I could see this being a pretty valuable feature. What do you think?

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