30 Social Media Inventions That Should Definitely Exist

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::flirty favs your tweet:: View this image ' Natalie Fitzgerald for BuzzFeed 1. The ability to go intostealth unclickable mode on Twitter and Instagram, so theres no chance of accidentally faving someone youre stalking and shouldnt be. 2. When stalking someone on Facebook, the ability to press a button titled Just show me the pictures that you actually appear in so I dont have to go through all the 300 photos of your 2011 vacation album. (Or, you know, something.) 3. A Twitter feed that shows youevery subtweet about yourself, no matter how subtle. 4. For Spotify to automatically default to Private whenever youre listening to something ~ embarrassing ~. 5. A Twitter program that sends an email to the address in the Twitter profile of the user every time they smugly tweet that theyve reached inbox zero. 6. A Pinterest extension that when you pin a recipejust gives you the damn food. View this image ' Illustration by Natalie Fitzgerald for BuzzFeed 7. A Twitter account thatautomatically gives you at least one RT and fav for every tweet, no matter what (but doesnt tell you its fake so your ego can stay intact). 8. Eleven automatic likes on Instagram for every photo you REALLY care about, so you dont have to wait for the number to roll over. 9. A Facebook app thatsends your friends an anonymous message when they are doing something embarrassing (like feeding the trolls they went to high school with).10. A Shazamtype app that tells you the names of humans so you dont have to feel embarrassed when you run into acquaintances. 11. A TV spoiler filter for Twitter. 12. A LinkedIn filter that gets rid of everything except awesome job offers. 13. The ability to fav areally funny Twitter bio, and to search them. 14. EMAIL FAVING. 15. Ability to differentiate betweenRTs that are endorsements and those that are not.

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16. Built-inanonymous focus group testing for tweets where it tries them out on strangers before you tweet them, and then you can edit as needed. View this image ' Illustration by Natalie Fitzgerald for BuzzFeed 17. An Instagram account that lets you somehow punish people for using dumb hashtags like #nofilter, #lovemylife, #magichour, #instagood, etc.Not filter them out, PUNISH. 18. A Twitter app that curtails the output ofpeople who tweet way too much, by simply not posting roughly 50% of their tweets. (The tweets will still show up on their timelines, though, so they wont know whats going on.) 19.Honest LinkedIn endorsements (so when it says Dan has endorsed Rob for public policy skills, a window pops up that says Dan hasnt spoken to Rob since they were in the third grade.) 20. A third swipe direction for Tinder that indicatesweary ambivalence that might grow into love following a series of adorably quirky encounters. 21. Automatic Facebook status decryption. For example: Status: I love my boo so much, everything is great! Translation: Im hanging on by a thread here, people. 22. Feature for Secret/Whisper whereone single time in your life youre allowed to press a button and find out exactly who said a given secret. 23. A feature on Instagram that tells you exactly where an impossibly stylish person got his or her cool clothes/shoes/makeup/life. View this image ' Illustration by Natalie Fitzgerald for BuzzFeed 24. Facebook, but without any people on it. 25. Google+, but with people on it. 26. A filter on Tinder that identifies whothe actual person is in a group picture. (And links to the profile of their way hotter friend.) 27. The ability to weed out Facebook photos youve already seen on Instagram, and vice versa. (COOL BABY, OH WAIT ITS SO BORING.) 28. A wink mechanism added to your fav/likeso your crush knows it was sexy social

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engagement. 29. An Instagram filter that makes youslightly more attractive than everyone else in the picture. 30. An extension that hides all engagement photos, sports updates, the aforementioned ubiquitous baby, or anything else you dont want cluttering your journey through this hellscape we call the internet. Oh wait, that alreadyexists, and its literal magic. Read more:http://buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/social-media-inventions-that-should-definitely-exist 30 Social Media Inventions That Should Definitely Exist To read more on this topic click here

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