Creepy, disturbing and obsessive are just a few words which come to mind when describing Facebook Breakup Notifier, one of Facebook’s new applications. As if Facebook wasn’t already stalker-friendly, this app just took it to another level.
Is there someone out there you’re interested in, but they’re in a relationship? Well, with Facebook Breakup Notifier, you no longer have to tirelessly stalk that person yourself since Facebook will do it for you. Just track the person you want to stalk, and as soon as that person’s relationship status goes from “in a relationship” to “single,” you’ll receive an email notifying you of the news.
I’m not really seeing anything good coming from this. What are you going to do once you receive the email, hit on that person? Oh yeah, I’m sure they’ll really appreciate getting hit on ten seconds after they’ve ended their relationship.
I’m sure we’ve all checked a person’s relationship status when we add them as a friend, but to actually track it, now that’s just scary. If you have this app, your status just went from “creepy” to “stalker.”
If you ever find out somebody is using the Facebook Breakup Notifier app to track your relationship status, here’s my suggestion on what to do. Change your relationship status 100 times, so you can just spam their email. Then, you should delete them from your friend list, because a friend who keeps track of your relationship status is no friend at all.
Despite amassing more than 3 million users in matter of days of its introduction, Facebook has since shut down its Breakup Notifier. Facebook shut down the app because the company’s executives were concerned for users’ safety in reference to application programming interface, which monitors software programs’ communication.
