Facebook’s suits are losing their minds over a small app developer in the States who developed a service with a unique selling point of limiting a user’s time on the social network. Break Your Facebook is a self-help tool of sorts, which aides in weaning otherwise-busy GenY-yuppies from social media addiction, freeing up time for work or, you know, real life.

Facebook has reacted fairly strongly to the service, alleging that developer Cody Romano infringed their copyright. They’ve slapped him with a cease and desist letter, ordering him to dismantle the not-for-profit web app. \

Here’s a portion of Romano’s statement:

I created a tool called Break Your Facebook that allowed users to take structured breaks from the social networking site. Following news of the NSA scandals, I had become more privacy conscious and weary of the website’s data mining practices. Plus, its frenetic pace and the poor quality of the News Feed was starting to turn me off.

In the process of developing my little side project, I decided to permanently delete my Facebook accounts. Doing so boosted my happiness considerably. Now I use the Internet for work and do almost all of my socializing in person.

The cease and desist order has affirmed my decision and crystallized my dislike of Facebook as a company.

You can read Facebook’s cease and desist, here.

[Source : Boston Magazine]