The time has come where we will soon get to put our excessively chatty friends or Pages we've "liked" on snooze.

Look at what Dre Media stumbled on:

After seeing that, I reached out to Facebook press for confirmation and a Facebook rep replied:

"We're testing new ways to give people control over their News Feeds so they can stay connected with the stories they find most relevant."

As it's rolled out, you will find the Facebook Snooze button enables us to hush friends or Pages for one month, one week or one day.

What's nice is it may deter folks from unfollowing or "unliking" us for good; just giving them a little break from us.

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