In the days following the end of the presidential election, talk about blocking people who express different political views than yourself on social media began circling online. Some people think it's ...

Twitter users’ ability to block people is going away for the most part, Twitter owner Elon Musk said this week. In response to another user’s question on the beleaguered social media platform, Musk ...

I blocked a friend of over a decade because of a comment she made at a party. I wanted to remove all toxic people from my life, so started blocking people online. In the process, I became toxic myself ...

A quick PSA for all the grown-ups out there: blocking people—whether on your phone or social media—doesn’t serve you. Why? Because it’s reactive and avoidant, not a thoughtful, deliberate way to set ...

Discord is offering users a new way to block people without the confrontational nature of an actual block. The new feature, ...

Elon Musk, owner of the social media program X, which used to be named Twitter, says that he’s going to end the ability to block users on the app. Blocking of accounts, which is possible on Facebook, ...

Users responded to the announcement Wednesday that X will “soon” allow blocked users to view the activity of people who blocked them with rising furor this week. “Soon we’ll be launching a change to ...

Culling your friends list is one of the things you need to regularly do on Facebook, if only to ensure that you only interact with people who matter to you and not be inundated by irrelevant life ...

This may sound weird for a journalist, but tuning individual people out on social media has vastly improved my life over the past year. I used to be one of those people who refused to ever hit the ...