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Online tie breaking

Online tie breaking

This is a timeline that documents the appearance of features for tie breaking across a range of digital platforms. It was created by Nicholas John (@nicholasajohn) based on data collected for him by Dekel Katz.

1997-10-24 00:00:00

Battle.net - Squelch

Ignores chat messages from specified user

1998-02-12 00:00:00

ICQ - Remove contact

1998-04-16 00:00:00

SixDegrees - Delete contact

Event info

1999-11-10 00:00:00

ICQ - Ignore

2000-12-05 00:00:00

LiveJournal - Ban from commenting

2001-08-30 00:00:00

Battle.net - Remove from friends list

Removes the specified account name from your friends list.

2001-11-17 00:00:00

LiveJournal - Remove/edit friend

2003-04-15 00:00:00

T-Mobile Sidekick - Decline

The sender of the message will be blocked from sending you any messages, including the one

2003-04-15 00:00:00

T-Mobile Sidekick - Discard buddy

To remove a buddy from your list

2003-08-01 00:00:00

MSN - Block

The blocked contact does not know he or she has been blocked. You simply appear to be offline to them.

2003-10-02 00:00:00

MySpace - Delete friend

To remove someone from your Friends List

2004-01-05 00:00:00

Xbox - Mute

To do this, select their Gamertag from the Players list, and then select the Mute option

2004-04-02 00:00:00

Flickr - Ignore

If you are not an administrator and someone is annoying you, click on hir name and choose “Ignore”

2004-04-11 00:00:00

Skype - Block

If you block a user, the user will no longer be able to communicate with you (and vice versa). You will always appear offline to the users that you have blocked.

2004-04-13 00:00:00

Skype - Remove contact

Yes you can always remove a Contact List entry by right-clicking on a Contact and selecting “Remove from Contacts”.

2005-07-07 00:00:00

Friendster - Block

How do I block people from sending me messages?

2005-09-06 00:00:00

Flickr - Block

People you have blocked won’t be able to interact with you or your photos

2005-09-06 00:00:00

Flickr - Remove contact

From your home page, go to ‘Your contacts’. This takes you to another page, where you should see your contacts listed. Select the contact you’d like to remove. Select ‘Profile’ on the right side of the page. Click the ‘Change’ link. At the bottom of the text click ‘Remove’.

2005-11-25 00:00:00

Facebook - Block

A block prevents specific people from viewing your profile. Any ties you currently have with a person you block will be broken (friendship connections, relationships, etc). Removing the block will not restore the connection.

2006-06-15 00:00:00

LinkedIn - Remove connection

To request that a connection be removed from your network, contact Customer Service. Please include the name and email address of the person you would like to have removed.

2006-08-22 00:00:00

LinkedIn - Remove connection

To remove one or more people from your list of connections, go to My Contacts: Connections, click “Remove connections” in the right-hand margin, and follow the instructions provided.

2006-09-07 00:00:00

Twitter - Leave

2006-11-15 00:00:00

Facebook - Show less

Or maybe one of your friends is dominating your News Feed by always writing boring notes on what she ate yesterday; if you add her to the “Less About These Friends” list, we’ll try not to subject you to any more of her culinary ramblings.

2006-12-06 00:00:00

Reddit - Remove from friends

On the right sidebar, you’ll find a list of links, one of which is add to friends. Unless he/she is already your friend, in which case you’ll see remove from friends.

2007-01-05 00:00:00

Twitter - Delete friend

Delete Jade: for now, deleting friends must be done from the web

2007-02-28 00:00:00

MySpace - Block user

To block a user you will need to visit that user’s profile click ‘Block User’

2007-05-10 00:00:00

Twitter - Block

Blocking someone means that you (and your pic) will not appear on the blocked person’s friends list, profile page, friends timeline, badge, or anywhere else.

2007-05-17 00:00:00

Facebook - Hide

If you don’t want to see stories from a person who has yet to accept your friend requests, you can hide them from your News Feed

2007-05-17 00:00:00

YouTube - Block from commenting

You can block users from making comments on your videos or sending you messages.

2007-10-18 00:00:00

YouTube - Remove contact

Select the checkbox next to any contact you’d like removed from your address book. Click the “Remove Contacts” button.

2007-10-18 00:00:00

YouTube - Unsubscribe another user

In the “Subscriptions and Subscribers” section, click the “Subscribers to My Videos” link. Click the “Unsubscribe” button for anyone you’d like to remove.

2007-10-19 00:00:00

YouTube - Unsubscribe

Click the “Unsubscribe” button on the right side of the screen for each subscription you’d like to remove.

2008-02-08 00:00:00

Xbox - Block communications

By blocking communications from a player, and you won’t get any more messages or invites from them. By selecting this option along with the Avoid option above, you effectively remove this player from your Xbox LIVE experience.

2011-07-07 00:00:00

Reddit - Block

Block users on PMs

2011-09-22 00:00:00

Facebook - Hide all by

The “Hide all by” and “Unsubscribe from” links will remove the post and prevent all future stories from a person, Page, group, event or app

2011-11-03 00:00:00

World of Warcraft - Ignore

2012-06-07 00:00:00

Instagram - Block

When you block a user, the blocked user cannot view your photos or search for your Instagram account.

2012-07-18 00:00:00

Instagram - Unfollow

You can stop following a user by navigating to their profile page and tapping the “Following” button, which will change to “Follow” to signal that you’ve unfollowed them

2012-08-24 00:00:00

Blackplanet - Remove from friends center

Now you can click on the My Friends link and remove this person from your Friend Center.

2012-12-18 00:00:00

ICQ - Ignore

If there is a user from whom you no longer wish to receive messages, no longer wish to see in your contact list, and to whom you want to always be invisible, you need to add him or her to the “People I ignore” list.

2012-12-18 00:00:00

ICQ - Invisible

Contacts you put into your invisible list will always see your status as “Offline”, but you’ll be able to receive messages from them.

2012-12-18 00:00:00

LinkedIn - Hide

In the event a piece of content isn’t relevant to you, we offer the option to hide it from your feed. You can see this option on the top right by hovering on any Sponsored Update.

2013-04-03 00:00:00

ICQ - Delete

To delete a contact, right-click on his or her name and select “Delete contact”.

2013-09-13 00:00:00

Flickr - Unfollow

To unfollow another member, click on the “Following” button on their photostream/profile/photo page. From the pop-up menu, you can unfollow that person.

2013-11-24 00:00:00

Xbox - Unfollow

New to the Xbox One is the ability to Follow certain users without becoming Friends with them, so celebrities, athletes, musicians and the like who are on Xbox Live can now be only a click away.

2014-01-28 00:00:00

LinkedIn - Block

As we’ve mentioned in the past, we are also working on a setting that will allow you to block another member from viewing your profile and will prevent any unwanted contact. We’ve already begun testing this setting.

2014-02-18 00:00:00

Friendster - Remove

Mouse over the thumbnail photo of the friend you want to remove then click remove.

2014-05-12 00:00:00

Twitter - Mute

Mute gives you even more control over the content you see on Twitter by letting you remove a user’s content from key parts of your Twitter experience.

2015-08-19 00:00:00

LinkedIn - Hide

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Facebook - Take a break

Starting today, we are testing tools to help people manage how they interact with their former partners on Facebook after a relationship has ended

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