I feel like I've said this before, but I want a social media feature where you can temporarily suspend yourself. This would be to help you self control internet addiction.

The idea is, you have an option to suspend your account for X days, and as soon as you click apply, it would log you off, and any attempt to log back on, would just give a message "you still need to wait X time until you can use your account again". Until the time expires, at most you could look around in your settings, but you can't view the timeline, you can't post, you can't search for posts etc.

This would be useful, because even the worst addict will have temporary moments of clarity, where he could think straight for a few minutes, and gather enough willpower to enact such a measure.

The only alternative right now would basically be to completely delete the account, which is far too drastic for most people. I think it would be much easier for someone to suspend their own accounts, to give themselves some away time, knowing that everything they had on it wouldn't be lost forever to them.

@alyx I think I could set up a bot for that if I had some time

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